Vietnam’s Best Scuba Destination

There are 3 main islands that we can visit: Hon Cau, Hon Bay Canh and Hon Tai. While all islands feature the same healthy coral reefs and rich marine life, they all have their own unique reef and fishes.

Hon Cau: The furthest of the 3 islands. It takes 20 – 30 minutes by speed boat to get to. The island is famous for the temple of Co Van that welcome a lot of Vietnamese tourist come to pray and worship. It has a very shallow reef, full of branching coral ranging from 2 – 8 meters. The main dive site here is called Shark Fin where scuba divers can visit the shallow branching coral area, the dead coral field full of nudibranch and sea slug, the hard coral garden where coral forming in different structures and full of other common reef fishes. Here, you can have a chance to spot some bigger marine life like giant barracuda, trevally, bamboo shark, turtle,…

Visibility in Hon Cau usually is the best of the 3 islands. Divers can go more than 20 meters here.

Hon Bay Canh: The middle island, it takes around 10- 15 minutes speed boat ride to get to. This island is turtle’s favorite nesting site. Although turtles come here to lay eggs year-round, the main season is from late May to October. As the nesting site (south side) is protected by the marine park, no boat is allowed to go here. Most of our dive is done at the site called Horseshoe, north of Bay Canh island. Horseshoe feature shallow area for snorkelers and deep area upto 18 meters for divers. The site has two main reefs. One side is mostly branching coral and the other side is mostly table coral. You can find all kind of reef fish here, from little, colorful nudibranches to clownfish, sweetlips, anglefish, snappers, butterfly, pufferfish.. and in some rare occasion, eels, cuttlefish, batfish, scorpionfish,…

This is our to-go site when we have beginner divers or divers that haven’t been diving for a long time. The site rarely has strong current and visibility usually very good here. Maximum depth is 25 meters.

Hon Tai (lucky island): The near island, it only takes 5 – 10 minutes to get to and is our favorite island. The site is rarely visited by tourist boat or fishing boat, thus, the fish and coral here is left to live and grow. The amount of fish here is much larger than any other islands around Con Dao. Our dive guide can take you to the batfish hideout where you can play around with the curious and friendly batfishes. Giant pufferfish is also a common sight here. There’s also large school of barracuda, snappers, parrotfish. Deeper area of the site at around 10 – 15 meters feature many different species of nudibranch.

The diving condition here is, however, stay true to its name, depends on how lucky you are. Visibility here can change quickly from crystal clear to 4-5 meters in just matter of minutes. The site sometimes has strong current, perfect for relaxed drift dive along the reef.

We choose our dive sites of the date depends on many factors (winds, currents, number of divers on boat and experience level…)