Wildlife Encounter Guides

Swimming alongside the world's largest fish is an experience that redefines your understanding of the ocean. Whale shark...

Manta rays are the ocean's most graceful giants. With wingspans reaching over 7 metres, these intelligent creatures perf...

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Encountering a humpback whale underwater is one of the most profound experiences available to ocean lovers. These 15-met...

Coming face to face with a great white shark is the ultimate adrenaline rush for adventure divers. These apex predators,...

Seeing a school of hammerhead sharks is one of scuba diving's most iconic experiences. These prehistoric-looking sharks,...

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Sea turtles are among the most beloved creatures in the ocean, and for good reason. Watching a green turtle gracefully c...

Covers 3 species

Bull sharks are diving's most exhilarating close encounter. Known for their stocky build and bold temperament, bull shar...

Tiger sharks are the ocean's ultimate generalists - large, powerful, and supremely confident. Reaching over 5 metres in ...

Orcas are the ocean's apex predators - intelligent, social, and devastatingly effective hunters that have captivated hum...

Dolphins are the ocean's most joyful inhabitants, and swimming with them in the wild is an experience of pure delight. B...

Few sharks are as instantly recognisable as the blacktip reef shark, with its jet-black fin tips cutting through turquoi...

Descend onto a coral reef at almost any dive site in the tropical Pacific and there is a good chance you will find a whi...

There is no sight in diving quite like a wall of grey reef sharks materialising from the blue, their sleek silver bodies...

There is something wonderfully reassuring about nurse sharks. These broad, flat-headed bottom-dwellers are the gentle gi...

The oceanic whitetip is the shark that turns experienced divers into wide-eyed beginners again. Arriving from the deep b...

Lemon sharks have an almost dog-like quality that endears them to divers - sociable, inquisitive, and surprisingly gentl...

The thresher shark is one of the most visually extraordinary creatures in the ocean. Its scythe-like tail, which can be ...

The blue shark is the ocean's long-distance wanderer - a sleek, indigo-blue torpedo that roams the open ocean in a never...

Spotted eagle rays are among the most beautiful creatures in the ocean, and watching one glide over a reef is like witne...

The blue-spotted ribbontail ray is one of the coral reef's most exquisite residents - a small, pancake-flat disc of sand...

The sperm whale is the largest toothed predator on Earth, a deep-ocean titan that routinely dives beyond 2,000 metres in...

The blue whale is the largest animal ever to have lived on Earth - larger than any dinosaur, reaching 30 metres in lengt...

Southern right whales earned their grim name from whalers who considered them the 'right' whale to hunt - they swam slow...

Spinner dolphins are the acrobats of the ocean, famous for their spectacular aerial displays - launching themselves from...

The dugong is the ocean's only herbivorous marine mammal - a gentle, rotund 'sea cow' that spends its days grazing on se...

If dolphins are the ocean's social butterflies, seals and sea lions are its playful puppies - barrel-rolling, somersault...

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Manatees are the gentle giants of freshwater springs and warm coastal shallows - enormous, docile herbivores that drift ...

The ocean sunfish is one of the most surreal creatures a diver can encounter. Holding the record as the heaviest bony fi...

Few marine creatures have captured the public imagination quite like the clownfish. Made famous by Finding Nemo, these v...

The Napoleon wrasse - also known as the humphead wrasse or Maori wrasse - is one of the most charismatic fish on the ree...

Few fish command attention quite like the lionfish. With its dramatic array of elongated, venomous spines fanning outwar...

The great barracuda is one of the reef's most impressive predators - a silver torpedo with a mouth full of razor-sharp t...

The giant moray is the reef's most charismatic lurker. Reaching up to 3 metres in length and weighing up to 30 kilograms...

Seahorses are among the ocean's most enchanting and improbable creatures. With their horse-shaped heads, prehensile tail...

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Frogfish are the ocean's ultimate ambush predators and masters of disguise. These bizarre, bulbous fish look nothing lik...

The mandarin fish is arguably the most beautiful fish in the ocean. Barely 6 centimetres long, this tiny dragonet is dra...

The giant grouper is the colossus of the coral reef. As the largest bony fish found on reefs, Epinephelus lanceolatus ca...

Octopuses are widely regarded as the most intelligent invertebrates on the planet, and watching one in its natural habit...

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Cuttlefish are the ocean's most hypnotic performers. These soft-bodied cephalopods possess the most sophisticated colour...

The nautilus is a living relic of deep time - a shelled cephalopod whose lineage stretches back over 500 million years, ...

Nudibranchs are the jewels of the sea - shell-less marine gastropods that have traded physical armour for some of the mo...

Imagine floating in warm, still water surrounded by millions of golden jellyfish - pulsing gently past you in every dire...

Few fish have as much personality as pufferfish. With their curious, almost puppy-like expressions and the remarkable ab...

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Mantis shrimp are among the most extraordinary creatures in the ocean - and quite possibly the most underestimated. Thes...

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Sea dragons are the ocean's most ethereal fish - drifting through kelp forests and seagrass meadows like living works of...

Sea snakes are simultaneously one of the most feared and most misunderstood groups of marine animals. These elegant rept...

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Mobula rays - commonly called devil rays for the distinctive cephalic fins that curl forward like horns - are among the ...

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Diving with crocodiles is the ultimate adrenaline encounter in the underwater world - an experience that sits at the ext...

Pygmy seahorses are the ocean's ultimate masters of camouflage and among the most sought-after subjects in underwater ma...

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The dwarf minke whale is one of the ocean's most enchanting and approachable great whales - and the Great Barrier Reef i...