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Whether<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>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 colourfull fish, your curiosity raised by the mysterious remains of sunken ships or your creativity awakened by the art of underwater photography. Your diving interests may range from a casual pastime pursued on vacation, to a constant passion, or even a career. Diving offers something new for everyone.</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF">Diving in Andamans is a unique lifetime experience. The coastal water surrounding theses islands is the abode of one of the richest coral reef ecosystem is the world. The specialty is that, here the coral reefs and underwater formations are undamaged by human activity. The best season for diving is from December to April.</font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText"><font size="2"><img border="0" src="images4/div8.jpg" style="float: left" width="238" height="159"><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF">Many of the islands are surrounded by fringing reefs, often several hundred meters wide and separated from the shore by a lagoon of similar width. There are also more 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 these waters, as are a variety of sharks. Large schools of hammerhead often patrol the waters away 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.</font></font></p> <h1><font size="4"><font size="2" color="#FFFFFF" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Few dive sites near to South Andaman Island/Port Blair</font></font></h1> <table border="0" width="98%"> <tr> <td width="82%" height="224" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><font color="#FFFFFF">Cinque Island</font></b> <font size="2" face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF">One of the best dive destinations in the island, it has clear emerald water with a visibility of upto 80 feet. The deep dive offers a terrific variety of marine life, including black coral, sightings of sharks and is ideal for the experienced diver.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF">North Point: This site at Cinque Island is mostly highlighted by sponges and small corals and diversity of fish life.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF">Southeast Reef at Cinque Isaland is a good site for novices. The southeast part of the reef consists of hard and soft corals and very dense on the rocks to about 16m(53 ft).<br> </font></p> </td> <td width="18%" rowspan="2" valign="bottom"> <p><img border="0" src="images4/div3.jpg" width="159" height="238"><br> <br> <img src="images4/div10.jpg" width="159" height="238"></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="82%" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><font color="#FFFFFF">Fish Rock</font></b> <font size="2" face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF">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 and Reef Sharks are almost always in the vicinity as are Nurse Sharks. Among the rest of the marine life are Eagle rays. Potato Cod, large coral groupers, fusiliers, suitlips, turtles, batfish, bumphead. Parrotfish,Squrielfish, curious and friendly oriental sweetlips, surgeonfish, yellow Tangs, Triggerfisk, tuna, Rainbow runners and many spices of trevally.</font></p> </td> </tr> </table> <br> <table border="0" width="98%"> <tr> <td width="84%"> <p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#FFFFFF"><b>Bala Reef</b>: <font size="2" face="Verdana">On the western side of little Andaman, Bala Reef spreads over 4-5 sq.km amd is said to be one of the best sites in the Anadamans for coral-with vibrant colours.<br> </font></font></p> </td> <td width="23%" rowspan="4" valign="top"> <p><img border="0" src="images4/div4.jpg" width="238" height="159"><b><font color="#FFFFFF"><br> <br> Snake Island<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span></font></b><font size="2" face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF">off Corbyn s Cove beach. This site offers awesome rock faces and spectacular dive landscape. Marine life includes Trigger fish, Grunts, Goatfish and Rays.</font> </p> <p><img src="images4/div9.jpg" width="238" height="159"></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="84%"><font color="#FFFFFF"><b>Corruption Rock</b> : <font size="2" face="Verdana">Corruption Rock sticks out between Chidiyatapu and&nbsp; Rutland Island. The dive site is on the western side of the rock and is made up of&nbsp; big 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 giant napoleons and eagle rays, huge snappers, schooling fusiliers, banner and unicorn fish, Dolphins, tuna and reef sharks have also been sighted here.<br> </font></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2" valign="top"> <font color="#FFFFFF"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US; mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Rutland Island: </span></b><font size="2" face="Verdana">The shallow waters near to the island have a good representation of most smaller fish and coral, and a good place for training open water divers. There is a ship wreck site also.</font></font></td> </tr> <tr> </tr> </table> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><font color="#FFFFFF">Havelock Island: </font></b><font size="2" face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF">This is located approximately 50kms from Port Blair by inter-island ferry. There is a range of largely unexplored dive sites rich in underwater marine life.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font color="#FFFFFF"><b><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Dive sites near to the Havelock Island</font></b></font></p> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="16%" valign="top"><img border="0" src="images4/div2.jpg" width="238" height="159"></td> <td width="84%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><font color="#FFFFFF">Mac Point</font></b> <font size="2" face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF">Mostly hardcorales and their inhabitants are found. Usually good visibility, dugongs have been spotted here.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font color="#FFFFFF"><b>Aquarium</b> <font size="2" face="Verdana">is a fringing reef with lots of  fishtraffic . Usually good visibility, mostly hardcorales.</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font color="#FFFFFF"><b>Barracuda City</b> <font size="2" face="Verdana">Tons of fish, sometimes turtles, mostly hard and some soft corals. Rather suitable for experienced divers</font></font><font size="2" face="Verdana">.</font></p> </td> </tr> </table> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#FFFFFF">Turtle Bay </font></b><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#FFFFFF">is an easy pleasant dive site not exceeding 14 meters. Rays are found in the sand and with luck turtles.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#FFFFFF"><b>Seduction Point </b>A huge rock with different kind of aquatic life. Napoleans can be seen. The shallow part is full with staghorn corals and its inhabitants.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#FFFFFF"><b>Lighthouse</b> is a huge divesite, suitable for any kind of dives. Huge variety of soft and hard corals. Perfect for nightdives.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#FFFFFF"><b>The Wall</b> is a huge dive submerged rock. The wall drops down 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 dive.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#FFFFFF"><b>Pilot Reef</b> near to Havelock is a huge block of prestine hardcorals. At the bottom(max 24 meters)  canyons are stretching out. Leopard and White Tip Sharks have been sighted.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#FFFFFF"><b>Minerva ledge </b>at Havelock is even bigger block of hard corals. Tons of fish even&nbsp; bigger block of hardcorals. Tons of fish, usually good visibility and the possibility of seeing sharks makes it one of the top dive sites.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#FFFFFF"><b>Campbell Shoaloff North Button Island.<o:p> </o:p> </b></font></p> <p class="MsoBodyText"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#FFFFFF">The bottom of this site is covered in mainly hardcorals, with sporadic sandy patches and hosts a multitude of reef animals. 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