Dive Sites.

Marine life is abundant in the Andamans. The seas around the Andamans are some of the world's most unspoilt. The Andamans has unique species of fishes of different colors, corals and pristine reefs.
From the dept of Johnny's Gorge to the gardens of Minerva ledge, there are plenty of things here for everyone. What makes the Andaman islands different from others is that here you will find so many fishes than scuba divers.

1. South button. It is 6 to 25 metres in all levels. It is the most popular place to dive. Its full of fishes and corals. Snorkeling is best here. It has the Manta Ray or the odd little Devil ray passing by. You can see the Barracuda here. From there you can spot the Big Eyed Trevally, batfishes, crocodile fishes, moray eels, turtles, angelfish, blue fin Trevally and Nudibranches. You can also see the white bellied sea eagle from above the water.

2. The wall.  It is of 10 to 30 metres in all levels. It is a small wall that drops in to the shipping channel near the jetty on Havelock. It is the best local site. It is visited by a very large Napoleon wrasse called Pierre who is very friendly to the divers. The top of the wall is full of purple, red and yellow soft corals. This has beautiful pufferfish, lionfish and Nudibranches. You can also spot octopuses, Scorpionfish and anglerfish. You can also spot Kulhs rays with or without tails on the sandy part.

3. Pinnacles. It is 18 to 30 metres and is advanced. These are surrounded by Barracuda, Giant Trevally, Giant Groupers, Tuna and Mackerel. You can also spot beautiful Big Barrel sponges perch on the edges of the large pinnacles which is covered with glassfish. There are  many colors here with lots of angelfishes and shy red toothed triggerfishes looking for holes to hide from the glares from the Napoleon wrasses circling the reefs.

4. Johnny's Gorge. This is 20 to 30 metres in advanced level. Its just 3 minutes from the Minerva ledge. Its the place where dolphins visit. It is not a big reef but most divers do not notice the beautiful colored corals because they are surrounded by a kaleidoscope of swirling Barracuda, Giant friendly grouper, unicornfishes and snappers. This is the place where you can see the sharks on a regular basis and even groups of eagle rays often drop in.

5. Elephant beach. This is 6 to 25 metres on all levels. It is popular for dive training and snorkeling. It is the only site where you can walk straight of the beach. It has pipefishes and different kinds of shrimps and porcelain crabs. The reef has colorful staghorn, feather/basket/sea stars, harlequin sweetlips, groupers etc.

6. Neels Cove. This is 12 to 45 metres on all levels. Here stinggrays, blue stripped snappers and humpback parrot fishes are spotted here.

7. 7th Heaven. It is 6 to 17 metres on all levels. Here damselfishes including the famous nemo (clown fish), ornate ghost pipefish have  been spotted here.

8. Minerva ledge.  It is 10 to 18 metres on all levels. Here Napoleon wrasses, eagle rays, white tip sharks and an uncommon tiger shark is spotted here.

9. Plotreef. It is 8 to 20 metres on all levels. This site has small reef fishes with  Napoleon wrasses, Manta ray, leopard shark, big stingrays, turtles, scorpion fish, sea snakes and Trevally.

The above sites are some of the most popular and the most famous dive sites in the Andaman islands. Some of the others are as follows :-
1. Ghost reef.
2. i-95
3. Mystery mountains
4. Duncan's wreck
5. Jacobs table
6. Guddo's garden
7. Jackson's Bar.