Seychelles Diving: Whale Sharks, Mantas & Granite Reefs
The Seychelles' unique granite seamounts create extraordinary dive sites — whale sharks aggregate at Shark Bank, manta rays glide over the plateaux, and the granite creates underwater cathedrals
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Shark Bank Seamount
The most famous dive site in the Seychelles — a submerged granite plateau 8 km from Mahé where hammerhead sharks, whale sharks and eagle rays congregate in season
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Brissare Rocks Granite Cathedral
Massive underwater granite boulders form arches, swim throughs and vertical walls covered in soft corals, sea fans and thousands of glass fish
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Whale shark season (October–January)
The channel between Mahé and Praslin concentrates whale sharks during the northwest monsoon — snorkeling with these 12-meter gentle giants is the highlight of the trip for many visitors
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Manta Ray Cleaning Station
A seamount northwest of Mahé hosts a regular manta ray cleaning station – divers hover as the rays slide in slow circles, allowing the wrasses to clean their gills
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Ennerdale Wreck Dive
British frigate HMS Ennerdale sank in 1970 after hitting a reef — now a 100-foot coral-encrusted artificial reef with huge shoals of snapper and jack
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Night dive at Anse à la Mouche
The calm sheltered bay on Mahé's west coast is ideal for night dives – squid hunting, sleeping parrotfish in their slime cocoons and luminescent plankton