Tofo with its infinite sands, windowless wicker bungalows, perfectly spaced surf-waves and amazing market eateries serving up plates of enormous buttery prawns would have put Tofo in my top five travel spots even without the whale sharks.
Having de-rusted our diving skills with the extremely patient staff in Tofo Scuba's pool we joined a boat and headed off into the Indian Ocean.
First we noticed a whale tail - then five, twenty, too many to count, the most our dive leader had ever seen.
Without scuba gear we leapt into the water and spent the next hour swimming with the pod and their hangers-on - a couple of enormous but exceptionally graceful manta rays. Coming face to face with alien whale shark grimaces, swimming between their enormous bodies and sensing their utter ambivalence towards us was a euphoric and uniquely calming experience.

Praia do Tofo, Inhambane, Mozambique
Google map: bit.ly/uF3Mk4

Tofo Scuba:
www.tofoscuba.co.za/
+258 293 29030

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It's a small community, centred around diving and snorkelling, clinging to the rocks of Pulau Weh. From here you can swim across to Rubiah Island (if you make sure to ask someone about the currents first!), laze in a hammock on your balcony over the water, snorkel some of the most diverse reefs in the world just in front of your bungalow or check out the coral gardens that have grown up since the tsunami, just around the corner. It's great because you can disappear here, but conversely, you feel like part of the family after just a day. It's one of those places that are disappearing, go now before it does.

Iboih Beach can be reached by taking a flight to Banda Aceh (from Kuala Lumpur for example), taking a becak to the ferry for Pulau Weh and then a taxi to Iboih Beach at the other end.
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A small island off the east coast of Taiwan where you can enjoy some really remarkable diving and snorkeling in waters that are unbelievably clear. I've lived in Taiwan and it is amazing that you can go diving on Green Island just about all year round.

www.greenislandadventures.com has information about trips to Green Island and other parts of Taiwan.

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I think that the best way of enjoying the province of Pontevedra is through nature. The sea is one of its best characteristics due to its varied and rich seabed.

Two months ago, I had two friends who came here for diving and they were surprised with the beauty of the waters. They said it was incredible and amazing.

www.buceopontevedra.com/
www.riasbaixas.org/web2005/index.php?id_idioma=3&bnn=hacer&secc_int=2

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Fantastic diving, more soft corals than you can shake a snorkel at. Sea turtles galore, so many lion fish I stopped counting, frog fish, sea snakes, eels, eels, eels, spotted rays, angel wrasse, schools of fish everywhere, wall, and reef diving at its best!

Also a great side trip if in Manila is Anilao, in Batanges, Philippines. The resorts leave much to be desired, but the diving is phenomenal (think backpacker diving, go for the underwater sights, and hope the food at the resort is edible afterward, or be smart and pack a picnic), the diving is worth it though.

Search Dumaguete+diving or Anilao+Batanges+Philippines Diving

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This is the only place on the island to go scuba diving – the rest of the island is unsuitable for the purpose. What you will find is akin to a fabulous underwater grotto. The water in the bay gently gets deeper, but the real magic is when the rocks turn into shallow shelves under the water, about 10 metres off the shore. You can snorkel here quite happily here in less than 2 feet of water, with the sun on your back, chasing fish, as I did.

www.faliraki-info.com/kallithea/scuba.diving.rhodes.htm

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Beautiful, clear water for diving. Incredible isolation in the middle of the South China Sea.

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The beach at Maria la Gorda ('Fat Mary') is said to be named after a Venezualan courtesan abandoned there by pirates once upon a time.

It's in the Cabo San Antonio nature reserve on the remote south western corner of Cuba. In 1999 it was the idyllic home of a little scuba diving school, six or seven chalets and a cocktail bar.

We hired a car in Havana and drove south west via Pinar del Rio. The journey took four or five hours, and we gave lifts to Cubans who gave us directions.
www.dtcuba.com/HotelInfo.aspx?hc=328

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