🌴 Scuba diving in Kauai, Hawaii, offers divers the opportunity to explore the vibrant underwater world of the Pacific Ocean. Kauai is the oldest and fourth-largest Hawaiian island and is known for its lush landscapes, diverse marine life, and stunning coastline. Kauai offers dive sites for both beginner and advanced divers.
The 6 Best Dive Sites in Kauai
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Camp 1, Kauai
Dive Type:
Boat Salt water
This site has amazing topography with many ledges, crevices, and arches to explore. Keep a lookout for white tip reef sharks, turtles, and frog fish that are known to frequent the area.
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Sheraton Caverns, Kauai
Dive Type:
Boat Cavern Salt water Swim through
One of the most popular dive sites on Kauai and for good reason. Sheraton Caverns gives divers the opportunity to swim through sunlit lava tubes and is home to sea turtles and many schools of fish.
📍 View Dive SiteHale O Honu, Kauai
Dive Type:
Boat Salt water Surge Waves
Hale O Honu or "House of Turtle” is one of the most
active turtle cleaning stations around Kauai. You can watch
hard working fish nibble away at the turtle shells to clean them up.
Also keep a lookout for frog fish, nudibranchs and white tip reef sharks.
Tortuga, Kauai
Dive Type:
Boat Salt water
Tortuga is another great spot to see turtle cleaning stations. Here, the turtles hang out above the reef, patiently waiting for their turn to be cleaned. This dive site is renowned for its abundance of marine life including octopus, moray eels, nudibranch, boxfish, grouper, and of course, sea turtles.
📍 View Dive SiteSalt Pond, Kauai
Dive Type:
Easy entry Restroom on site Salt water Shore Showers on site Snorkel site
Salt Pond is a great spot to shore dive, snorkel, or just spend the day at the beach. There are restrooms and showers on site, and a tranquil atmosphere that makes this a must-visit destination on Kauai.
The entry into the water is from a sandy beach and is great for beginners. Once you descend you will encounter a wide array of marine creatures and coral formations.
Koloa Landing - Shore Dive, Kauai
Dive Type:
Easy entry Restroom on site Salt water Shore
Koloa Landing is located on the South Shore of
Kauai and is one of the most popular shore dives on the island.
This dive site has an easy entry into the water and often calm ocean conditions.
The reef here is full of vibrant stony corals and an abundance of marine life.
Expect to see green sea turtles, multiple species of eels, scorpionfish, and octopus.
