There is no greater adventure than diving.Whether you are novice, or whether you were been diving for so many years,there is always something new , fascinating or challenging about venturing into the underwater world.your mind may be mesmerized by clouds of colourful fish,your curosity raised by the mysterious remains of sunken ship of your creativity awakened by the art of underwater photography.Your driving interest s may range from a causal pastime pursued on vacation to a constant passion, or even a career .Diving offers something new for everyone.

Diving in Andamanas is a unique lifetime experience.The coastal water surrounding these islands is the abode of one of the richest coral reef ecosystem is the world .the speciality is that ,here the coral reefs and underwater formations are undamaged by human activity.The best season for diving is from December to April.

Many og the islands are surrounded by fringing reefs,often several hundreds meters wide and seperated from the shore by a lagoon of similar width .There are also more steeply sloping reef walls,and coral pinnacles or knolls.Divers can follow around steeply undulating hills of raven volcanic lava,which makes for some unusual diving.There are plenty of steeply sloping and shallow reefs suitable for snorkeling.

large pelagics are plentiful in this waters,as are a variety of sharks.Large scools of hammerhead often patrol the waters from the reefs and grey,whitetip,nurse and Leopard sharks are found closer inshore,silvertip and ocean.Whitetips also sometimes appear out of the deep blue beyond .Enormous manta rays are also often seen.

Few dive sites near to south Andaman Island/Port Blair

Cinque Island

One of the best dive destinations in the island, it has clear emarald water with a visibility of upto 80 feet.The deep dive offers a terrific variety of marine life,including black coral,sighting of sharks and is ideal for the experienced diver.

North Point: This site at cinque Island is mostly highlighted by sponges and smaal corals and offers good diving because of the abundance and diversity of fish life.

Southeast Reef at cinque Island is agood site for novices.The southeast part of the reef consists of hard and soft corals and these are very dense on the rocks down to about 16m(53 ft.)

Fish Rock

near passage Island offers an extremely colourful dive.The topography consists of rocky slopes,boulders and drop-offs,featuring large fan of corals and plenty of sponges.Below 25m,the rocks are covered in small bushy soft corals in numerous hues.Hard corals are not so evident.Grey and Whitetip reef sgarks are almost in the vicinitu as are nurse sharks.Among the rest of the marine life are eagle rays.potato cod,large coral groupers, fusiliers, sweetlips, turtles, batfish, bumphead, pattotfish, squirefish, curious and friendly oriental sweetlips,squirefish,curious and friendly oriental sweetlips,surgeonfish,yellow tangs,triggerfish,tuna,rainbow runners and many species of trevally.

Bala Reef:

On the western side of little Andaman,Bala Reef spreads over 4-5 sq. km and is said to be one of the best sites in the Andaman for coral- with vibrant colours.

Corruption Rock:

Corruption Rock sticks out between Chidiyatapu and Rutland Island.The dive site is on the western side of the rock and is made up of bib underwater boulders.The corals are not brilliant but the craggy undersea landscape of boulders is stunning.A fantastic wonderland of gullies,channels,ridges and canyons.Look out for gaint napoleons and eagle rays,huge snappers,schooling fusiliers,banner and unicorn fish.Dolphin,tuna and reef sharks have also been sighted here.

Rutland Island:

The shallow waters near to the island The yellow waters near to the island have a good representation of most smaller fish and coral,and a good place for training open water drivers.There is ship wreck site also. Snake Island off Corbyn's cove beach.This site offers awesome rock faces and spectacular dive landscape.Marine life includes Trigger fish,Grunts,Goatfish and rays.

Havelock Island:

This is located approximately 50kms from port Blair by inter-island ferry.There is a wide range of largely unexplored dive sites rich in underwater marine life.

Dive sites near to the Haveloch Island

Mac Point Mostly hardcorals and their inhabitants are found.Usually good visibility,dugongs have been spotted here.

Aquarium is a fringing reef with lots of 'fishtraffic'.Usually good visibility,mostly hardcorales.

Bararacuda city Tons of fish,sometimes turtles,mostly hard and some soft corals.rather suitable for experienced drivers.

Turtle Bay is an easy pleasant dive site not exceeding 14 meters.Rays are found in the sand and with luck turtles.

Seduction Point A huge rock with different kind of aquatic life.Napoleons can been seen.The shallow part is full with staghorn corals and its inhabitants.

Lighthouse is a huge divesite,suitable for any kind of dives.Huge variety of soft and hard corals.Perfect for nightdives.

The wall is a huge submerged rock.The wall drops to a maximum of 55 meters and is full with life. Huge forests of softcorals plus schools of fish circling you,makes it always a memorable drive.

Pilot Reef near to Havelock is a huge block of prestine hardcorals.At the bottm (max 24 meters)'canyons' are streching out.Leopard and white Tip sharkshave been sighted.

Minerva Ledge at havelock is even bigger block of hardcorals.Tons of fish,usually good visibility and the possibility of seeing sharks makes it one of the top dive sites.

Campbell Shoal off north Button Island.

The bottom of this site is covered in mainly hard corals,with sporadic sandy patches and hosts a multitude of reef animals.The marine life includes Whitetip reef sharks,large cod and groupers,coral Trout,blue and golden- banded fusiliers,gaint Trevally and the host of colourful reef fish.

Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park,Wandoor Humdreds of colourfull varieties of coral reef fishes can bee seen in the park. some of this are clownfish,butterfly fish,surgeon fish,angel fish parrot fish,bat fish and groupers.Whitetip shark,hammer headedshark,Manta ray and blue fin jack are also occasionally seen. More than 50 types of corals are found in the fringing type of coral type of coral reefs in the park.Some important corals varieties found here are Acropora,Pocillopora,Montipora,leptoseries,fungia,portis,Tubipora and Gorgonians.