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Diving in the Andamans ----Scuba Diving
There is no adventure than diving. Whether novice or a pro, there is always something new, fascinating or challenging about venturing into the underwater world. Your mind may be mesmerized by clouds of colorful 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.Diving in Andaman’s 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. 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 pelagic 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, White tip, Nurse and leopard sharks are found closer inshore. Silvertip and Ocean Whitetails & Rays sometimes appear in the deep blue sea.

Fishing in the Andamans --- Big Game Fishing
At very few places, big game fishing is undertaken in India. Andaman is one such place which gives you the opportunity
& enviorment to indulge in Big Game Fishing. The waters around these islands are haven for Trolling, Throwing,
Bottom Fishing & Coastal Fishing. Some of the varieties of fish available are : Skipjack, Crevalee jack, Giant Kingfish
(Caranx ignobilis) - 5/20 Kgs, Great Trevally, Grouper (4/15 Kgs), Red Snapper, Great Barracuda, King Mackerel,
Vivaneau job, Sailfish, Marlin & Tuna, besides giant crabs & Lobsters.

Dive sites near to South Andaman Island

CINQUE Island One of the best dive destinations in the island, it has clear emerald water with a visibility of up to 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: sponges and small corals & diversity of fish life mostly highlight this site. Southeast Reef at Cinque Island 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).

FISH ROCK Near Passage Island offers an extremely colorful dive. The topography consists of rocky slopes, boulders and drop-offs, featuring large fan of corals & 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 White tip 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, suit lips, turtles, batfish, bump head. Parrotfish, Squrielfish, curious and friendly oriental sweet lips, surgeonfish, yellow Tangs, Triggerfish, tuna, Rainbow runners and many spices of trivially.

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’s for coral-with vibrant colors.

RUTLAND Island The shallow waters near to the island have a good representation of smaller fish and coral, and a good place for training open water divers. There is a shipwreck site also.

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 that brilliant but the craggy undersea landscape of boulders is stunning.
A fantastic wonder land 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.

SNAKE Island off Corbyn’s Cove beach. This site offers awesome rock faces and
spectacular dive landscape. Marine life includes Triggerfish, Grunts, Goatfish and Rays.

Dive sites near to the Havelock Island
Havelock Island 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

MAC POINT mostly hard corals and their inhabitants are found. Usually good visibility, dugongs have been spotted here. Aquarium is a fringing reef with lots of ‘fish traffic". Usually good visibility, mostly hardcorales. Barracuda City Tons of fish, sometimes
turtles, mostly hard and some soft corals. Rather suitable for experienced divers.

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 be seen. The shallow part is full with stag horn corals and its inhabitants.

LIGHTHOUSE area is a huge dive site, suitable for any kind of dives. Huge variety of
soft and hard corals. Perfect for night dives.

THE WALL is a huge dive 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 hardcorales. At the bottom
(max 24 meters) ‘canyons’ are stretching out. Leopard and White Tip Sharks have been sighted.

MINERVA LEDGE at Havelock is even bigger block of hard corals. Tons of fish, even bigger blocks of hardcorales. 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 hardcorales, with sporadic sandy patches and hosts a multitude of reef animals.
The marine life includes White tip Reef Sharks, large cod and groupers, Coral Trout,
Blue and Golden-banded fusiliers, Giant Trivially and a host of colorful reef-fish.

MAHATMA GANDHI Marine National Park, Wandoor, hundreds of colorful varieties
of coral reef fishes can be seen in the park. Some of these are clownfish, butterfly fish, surgeonfish, angel fish, parrotfish, batfish and groupers. White tip 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 are Acropora, Pocillopora, Montipora, Leptoseris, Fungi, Portis, Turboprop & Gorgonians.

List of the Having Scuba Diving Facilities

HOTEL NAME	ADDRESS	CONTACT
Welcome Group Bay Island	Marine Hill, Port Blair	234101, 232198 232065, 231555(F)
Peerless Beach Resort	Corbyn’s Cove, Port Blair	233461-64, 240201-03 233463(F)
Sentinel	Phoenix Bay, Port Blair	237914-17, 236278(F) 232425(F)
Sinclair’s Bay View	South Point, Port Blair	233159, 232937 231824(F)
Abhishek	Goal Ghar, Port Blair	233565, 234561 230705(F)
Holiday Inn	Delanipur, Port Blair	235167 , 239341(F)
Shalimar	Delanipur, Port Blair	239316
Kavitha	Aberdeen Bazaar, Port Blair	233762
Jungle Resort	Radha Nagar, Havelock.	237656, 237657(F)
Mangrove Bay Resort	Wandoor	280008, 233140 233160(F)

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