Where is the best Snorkeling place in our planet ?

[Adam Grose]

For me, the best snorkeling place was near Phuket, Thailand.

 

[Mobil]

Dear Jan, So Ari Atoll (Vilamendhoo) & Marsa Alam are in your top list. Then you choose from the poll at the top in that case.
Not: I know Nusa islands needs a boat trip, but how was it. Was it a top experince or not?

 

[Phantom Menace]

Tonga and New Zealand and many other places in the Pacific should be on the list.

E.g. The Poor Knights in New Zealand

 

[daniel1948]

Best place I've ever snorkeled was the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Odd that a poll asking for the "best place on the planet" does not have an option for "other."

 

[Asteve]

After I read the title and before I saw it was a poll, I came up with 3 places that came to mine.

There is a reef between Petit St Vincent and Petite Martinique.
BVI Anegada north shore.
I also enjoyed the reef out from the Dry Tortuga Fl.
Another that came to mind is San Blas Inlands. off Panama.

 

[Akimbo]

The one you can walk to and dive whenever the mood strikes and the seas are kind.

 

[agilis]

Accepting obvious limitations, for shallow snorkeling the place I most appreciated was directly in front of the old cricket pitch on Negril's 7 mile beach back in the 1970s.Tiny patch corals starting 3 feet from shore in 1 foot of water scattered in the eel grass, and covered with juvenile butterfly fishes, angelfishes, damsels, seahorses, and incredible invertebrates. As you proceeded to 3 or 4 feet of water small Hawksbill sea turtles were common, and the corals grew thick and various, becoming increasingly spectacular as you moved offshore. A wonderland.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

For me it's Northern California because they have the prized Red Abalone.

 

[danvolker]

I think the idea of a "poll" with a title and defective list like this is obnoxious...

Maybe if you got a sample base of 4000 scuba boarders to provide you with a top 20 list of what THEY think is the best Snorkeling spot, and then weighted this to the most frequent showings in this top 20 list, then just maybe the poll might mean something. It would be better than the nonsense poll starting the thread....

But in all likelihood, 80% of all scuba boarders don't really snorkel anyway, so even here there will be quite a bit of guessing that would have to go on.

Obviously I can't vote in this poll, given the choices can't provide the correct answer.....
Mobil, try reading up in polling and statistics.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

I didn't vote either because the places listed mean nothing to me.
Also, where's the line between snorkelling and freediving?
If you are snorkelling your head doesn't go underwater and if you're freediving it does?
Or does your whole body have to go underwater, and how long does the apnea have to last to be considered a freedive?
Just curious.
I'm actually surprised a poll like this was posted being that 80% of SCUBAboarders are so anti snorkel.