Favored with mid Mediterranean climate, the island is the ideal destination for summer holidays and attracts the nature and sea enthusiasts, as it provides a wide variety of outdoor and water sports activities. Nature lovers and volunteers from all over the world also visit Zakynthos during summer, in order to sail and dive around the island, observe and monitor the turtle populations.
With outstanding marine biodiversity, the island is a diving paradise and offers many exciting sites for everyone. The bay in Laganas village is a National Marine Park and offers some of the best diving spots on the island. Arc de Triomphe or else “the Arch” is among the most popular dives and took its name due to a big underwater natural arch formed by a rock.
As you swim through the arch, the rocks are covered with sponges and soft corals until you meet a huge limestone reef that turns into a wall and drops down at a maximum depth of 229.7 ft/70 m. There is a lot of underwater life to explore around the reef, such as seahorses and colorful jelly fishes along with plenty of fishes of various shapes and sizes.
Arc de Triomphe has everything a diver could wish for, as it combines deep walls, reefs and cavers. For the most experienced divers, there is also a cave called the Shrimp Cave that drops at least 30 m/98.4 ft down. Visibility is excellent and the best season for this dive is from May to September, when the sea temperature reaches up to 27 °C/ 80°F. If you are planing a visit on Zakynthos island, diving is certainly a must do activity that no one should miss!!!
Paje Beach, lying on the east coast line of Zanzibar Island, part of Tanzania, is considered an excellent scuba diving spot worldwide, due to its perfect weather and open sea conditions, resulting of its proximity to the Equatorial.
Lake Huron is the third largest freshwater lake on Earth. Its lake shore is 3827 mi/ 6159 km long and the average depth is 195 ft/ 59.4 m. Lake Huron and Lake Michigan have the same surface elevation and are technically a single lake. The Straits of Mackinac connects Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. Many ships have sunk in the Straits, due to storms over the past years, some of them yet to be found. The Straits of Mackinac Underwater Preserve tries to preserve Michigan’s shipwrecks. The preserve contains more than thirteen recognized shipwrecks. One of them is the Martin Stalker.
The Pillars of Hercules are located on the southern side of Antigua. More specifically, they constitute the entrance to English Harbor. The Pillars of Hercules are actually rocks, carved by weather conditions. It is a spot that any diver would like to visit.
Daytona Beach is located in Volusia County and is famous world wide among the race fans for the Daytona International Speedway. Bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, the city hosts an amazing coastline and beautiful sandy beaches, attracting visitors from all over the states. It is also known for the hard packed sand on which you can drive your vehicle and visit restricted areas.
South Head is the southern headland of the entrance to Sydney Harbor, at the north of the suburb of Watsons Bay. Hornby Lighthouse, the third oldest lighthouse in New South Wales, is located on South Head. Apart from breathtaking views of the Sydney's CBD (Central Business District) and the Pacific Ocean, there are several excellent dive sites all along this section.
If there was ever a place, called underwater paradise on earth, it would be at the Raja Ampat Islands. Located on the northwest end of New Guinea Island in Indonesia, Raja Ampat is an archipelago with more than 1500 islands, coral reefs and sandbars, situated in the Coral Triangle and surrounded by the majestic Pacific Ocean.
