Exploring lesser-known locations for your dive trips offers unique diving opportunities and resort/liveaboard experiences. Maduro Dive has insider knowledge on a variety of dive resorts in over 79 international locations to help you plan and customize your trip. Here is more information about lesser-known diving locations:
Dominica
Dominica offers a more secluded island for dive trips. This island is in the Lesser Antilles of the Caribbean Sea, and its volcanic features create deep underwater walls and canyons to dive in, as well as swim-throughs and tunnels. Divers can encounter warm spots with volcanically heated water. At Champagne Reef, sulfuric bubbles rise from the sand and the rocks.
If your dive goals include encountering specific types of marine life, Maduro Dive can help you find appropriate dive locations. Diving in Dominica allows you to see a variety of coral, fish, and invertebrates. These include:
- Octopus
- Turtles
- Jacks
- Whales
- Dolphins
- Frogfish
- Seahorses
- Eagle rays
- Spotted rays
The Fort Young Hotel provides an on-site scuba shop and custom dive boats that travel to dive sites such as Swiss Cheese. This dive site offers three swim-throughs and an archway created from two granite rocks. Other dive sites include Scottshead Pinnacle, which offers a swim through to a wall that reaches 120 feet down. There are also night dive options and many unique topside attractions to experience.
Fiji
Bligh Waters around Fiji offer nutrient-rich locations that attract fish and larger pelagic creatures. Humpback whales move through Bligh Waters during their July to October breeding season. Volivoli Beach Resort on Viti Levu provides access to 80 dive sites in Bligh Waters. Travelers also have the opportunity to dive in the Vatu-I-Ra Passage. Dive sites around the resort include drift dives, pinnacles, and wall dives. There are also opportunities for wreck diving at the Papuan Explorer. The resort offers an on-site dive center and 32 ocean-view villas and rooms. Maduro Dive can book accommodations, diving, airfare and other services that align with your travel preferences and the number of guests you have.
Malaysia
Sipadan, Mabul and Kapalai are Malaysian islands offering muck, reef and wall diving with sandy bottoms to the peak of an underwater mountain. This variety provides experiences for all levels of divers. Sipadan offers deeper dives, providing opportunities for wall diving; there are steep walls with ledges and a large shelf found at 100 feet, and divers can encounter pelagic species and turtles. The Turtle Cavern dive site includes stalagmites and stalactites. Mabul has an amazing range of sea creatures, macro marine life and a surprising number of turtles in its muck dive and coral reef sites. Dive sites include eel garden, froggy’s lair, coral reef garden, lobster wall and ray point. Kapalai dive sites offer easy viewing of colorful nudibranchs, ribbon eels, ghost pipefish and wooden boat wrecks. Among the popular dive sites are cleaning station, mandarin valley, spotted ray channel and gunard point.
Travelers staying on Sipadan have the opportunity to stay at Seaventures Dive Rig. This resort is an oil rig converted to a dive resort, providing a unique blend of adventure and comfort. This resort also provides three daily boat rides and unlimited dives on the house reef.
Plan Your Next Dive Trips Today
Working with a dive wholesale travel company allows you to learn about lesser-known locations for challenging or aesthetic dives. Maduro Dive can also book you accommodations on a liveaboard, allowing you to stay on a yacht that travels to different dive sites and caters to your needs. We are able to create custom travel or provide premade packages and airfare that assures your perfect dive vacation. To begin planning your dive trips, we invite you to contact us today.
