When you’re starting out in any new activity, you want to make sure that you give yourself the best first experience possible. Scuba Diving is no different; you want to ensure that when choosing your site you consider not only your excitement but your safety as well. The scuba diving site you select should be somewhere that will give you all the features necessary for a memorable experience while also being appropriate for your skill level. Your first real dive trip is one of a kind, so you want the experience to be one that you remember for the rest of your life. With that in mind, here are some of the best destinations that deliver on the all the features necessary for beginner scuba divers.

 

Florida

The Sunshine state provides a plethora of diverse diving sites along with high-quality dive shops and operators. Water surrounds the state on three sides, and it boasts a number of freshwater springs in the interior. It appeals to many divers because of the variety of diving habitats. Divers can find wreck dives, shore dives, pier dives, drift diving, and even treasure-hunting diving off both of Florida’s coasts. In addition, just offshore of South Florida and down to the Florida Keys is the only living coral reef in North America. Divers will discover an abundance of marine life with the warm Gulf Stream current flowing through the area.

 

Bahamas

Located at the junction of the Atlantic and Caribbean oceans, the 700 islands, and 2,400 coral cays make up the Bahamas. The reef stretches 760 miles from Andros to Long Island, and it offers all types of world-class diving like shallow reefs, wrecks, blue holes, walls and shark dives. Plus with the warm water, high visibility, and gentle currents, the conditions make the Bahamas the ideal place for a beginner diver.

 

Hawaii

Beginners will love the chance to boost their skill set quickly due to the challenge of keeping neutral buoyancy while swimming through the lava-formed tunnel and arches at Tunnel Reef and First Cathedral in Hawaii. Divers can also enjoy the manta night dive of Kona which is a one of a kind nighttime experience that divers can have because of the site’s depth of 38 feet. Hawaii also calls to many families and couples and because of this, the instructors are frequently working with new divers and anyone looking to polish their skills.