DIVE SITES NEAR SOUTH ANDAMAN ISLAND OTHER DIVE SPOTS SCUBA DIVE OPERATORS

DIVE SITES NEAR SOUTH ANDAMAN ISLAND
Cinque Island 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.
North Point This site at Cinque Island is mostly highlighted by sponges and small corals and diversity of fish species.
Southeast Reef at Cinque Island It 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).
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 big underwater boulders. The corals are not brilliant but the craggy undersea landscape of boulders is stunning alongwith a wonderland of gullies, channels, ridges and canyons. Look out for giant napoleons and eagle rays, huge snappers, schooling fusiliers, banner and unicorn fish. Dolphils, tuna and reef sharks have also been sighted here.
Rutland Island The shallow waters near the island have a good representation of fishes and coral. It is a good place for training open-water divers. There is a ship wreck site also.
Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park, Wandoor Hundreds of colourful varieties of coral reef fishes can be seen in the park. Some of these are clown-fish, butterfly-fish, surgeon fish, angel fish, parrot fish, bat fish and groupers. Whitetip-shark, hammer-headed shark, manta-ray and blue-fin jack are also occasionally seen. More than 50 types of corals are found in the fringing coral reefs in the park. Some important coral varieties found here are Acropora, Pocillopora, Montipora, Leptosereis, Fungia, Portis, Tubipora and Gorgonians.

OTHER DIVE SPOTS
Fish Rock This is near Passage Island. It offers and extremely colourful dive. The topography consists of rocky slopes, boulders and drop-offs featuring large fan of corals and plenty of sponges. Below 25 m, the rocks are covered in small bushy soft corals in numerous hues. Hard corals are not so evident. Grey and white tip. Reef Sharks are always in the vicinity as are nurse Sharks. Among the rest of the marine life are eagle rays. potato cod, large coral groupers, fusilier, suitlips, turtles, batfish, parrotfish, squirrelfish, surgeonfish, curious and friendly oriental sweetlips, yellow tangs, triggerfish, tuna, rainbow runners and many spices 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 of vibrant colours.
Havelock Island This is located approximately 54 Kms. from Port Blair by inter-island ferry. There is a range of largely unexplored dive sites rich in underwater marine life, here. Some of them are stated below :
Mac Point Mostly hard corals with their inhabitants. Usually with good visibility, dugongs have been spotted here. Aquarium Is a fringing reef with lots of ‘fish traffic’. The site usually has a good visibility. Mostly hard corals are found here.     Barracuda City This site has tons of fishes. Sometimes turtles. Mostly hard corals are seen here. Rather suitable for experienced divers. Turtle Bay This is an easy and pleasant dive site not exceeding 14 meters. Ray is found in the sand and with luck, turtles.     Seduction Point A huge rock with different kind of aquatic life. Napoleons can be seen. The shallow part is full with stag horn corals and its inhabitants. Lighthouse It is a huge dive- site, suitable for any kind of dives. Huge variety of soft and hard corals ground here. Perfect for night dives.     The wall It is a submerged rock. The wall drops down to a maximum of 55 meters and is full with life. Huge forests of soft corals plus schools of fish circling you, makes it always a memorable dive. Pilot Reef Near to Havelock is a huge block of pristine hard corals. At the bottom (max X 24 meters) ‘canyons’ are stretching out. Leopard and White Tip Sharks have been sighted.     Minerva ledge Minerva ledge at Havelock is even bigger block of hard corals. It has tons of fish and bigger block of hard corals. Usually with good visibility and the possibility of seeing sharks makes it one of the top dive-sites.     Campbell Shoal off North Button Islands The bottom of this site is covered with mainly hard corals, with sporadic sandy patches. It also hosts a multitude of reef animals. The marine life includes White tip Reef Sharks, and a host of colourful reef-fish.

SCUBA DIVE OPERATORS

Sl.No. Name of the Dive Centre/shop at Havelock 1. ANDAMAN DIVE CLUB Havelock No# 1 Email  : info@andamandiveclub.com Web   : www.diveindia.com Tel      : +91-9474224171 2. DIVE INDIA Havelock No#5 Email : info@diveindia.com Web : www.diveindia.com Tel : + 91-3192-214247 3. BAREFOOT SCUBA Havelock No #3 Email : dive@barefootinida.com Web : www.diveindia.com Tel: +913192-282181, +91474263120 4. BLUE LAGOON Havelock NO#2 Email: divingandaman@gmail.com Web: www.divingandaman.com Tel: +91-9933274207, 9933201325, 9958603378 5. OCEAN PEARLDIVE RESORT Havelock NO#2 E-mail : Oceanpearldive@yahoo.in Web : dive-andaman.com Tel : +919933209905 6. ANDAMAN BUBBLES Havelock NO#5 Email : andamanbubbles@gmail.com Web : www.andamanbubbles.com Tel(0) : +913192-282140 Cell : +91-9474271295 7. LACADIVES DIVES CENTRE Silver Sand Beach Resort, Havelock NO#5 Email : Lacadives@gmail.com Web : www.lacadives@gmail.com Tel : +91-3192-214315

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