Jhonny’s Gorge

Dive type: Advanced | Depth: 25-30 meters 

Jhonny’s Gorge dive site is located 18.5 kilometers east of Havelock and is a mushroom-shaped reef lying between 25-30 meters deep beneath the sea surface. Jhonny’s Gorge has vast colorful deep circular reefs of all kinds, where exists vibrant marine life. Divers usually witness blue-spotted stingrays, white-tip reef sharks, and a variety of rays resting on the sandy surface of the sea bottom amidst a wide belt of coral reefs. It has commonly spotted fishlife such as jackfishes, trevallies, lionfish, barracuda, snappers, groupers, and giant moray eels and lobsters peek from underneath rocks. The dive site is surrounded by sand in every direction and rocks have become an oasis of security and food for marine animals. A single dive here will definitely amaze you and fill beautiful memories that will stay forever with you.

Dickson’s Pinnacle

Dive type: Advanced | Depth: 18-30 meters 

The dive site is located about 19 kilometers east of Havelock and the reef starts from 18 meters and goes down all the way to 30 meters deep. It has three colossal pinnacles enriched by soft, thick, and miscellaneous coral reefs. Dixon’s Pinnacles is recommended for deep divers and is one of Havelock’s most iconic dive sites. The top of the pinnacle always has a lot of drama, action, and the fun of marine animals feels like an action movie scene. You can just hover in one spot to witness a lot of chasing, swimming, and even gliding as soon as whale and reef sharks drop in.

The coral reefs are brimmed with schools of small colorful glass fish, banner fish, angel fish, surgeon fish, and batfish. The high podiums scattered around corals are a natural home for exotic and exquisite fishes like butterfly fish, Napoleon Wrasse, surgeons, banners, and other rare spotted marine species. You can also spot big guys like Barracuda and giant trevally feed above the pinnacles. The dive site is also a cleaning station where turtles, rays, groupers, puffer fish, etc., get cleansed with other small organisms’ help. It’s a symbiotic sight to savour.   

Jackson’s Bar

Dive type: Advanced | Depth: 25-35 meters 

The dive site is around 19 kilometers away northeast of Havelock. The reef of Jackson’s Bar starts from 25 meters and goes all the way down to 35 meters deep. The dive site always has strong currents and is the right place for divers looking for a challenging site. The reef of Jackson’s Bar is naturally designed in a bar-like formation. The dive site is the home of Multiple species of Marine animals including blue-spotted stingrays, barracudas, snappers, garden of eels, school of Bengal snappers, Andaman sweetlips, fusiliers, and tuna.      

The Wall

Dive type: Intermediate | Depth: 10-55 meters 

The wall is the deepest dive site in Andaman and is located in front of Havelock Ferry station on the banks of Peel Island. There is a fixed time allocated to dive at the Wall because of its closeness to Havelock Jetty and the continuous transportation of commercial ships. It is a sloping wall-like formation that starts from 10 meters and falls down to 55 meters deep and is scattered between the channels of Havelock and Peel Island. The dive site is filled with beautiful fan corals, sandy beds, and coral rocks. It is suitable for scuba diving courses, open water divers, and deep divers. The Wall is blessed with enchanting marine life including octopus, Napoleon wrasse, crocodile fish, giant groupers, moray eels, sweet lips, parrot fish, and scorpion fish. Snappers, tunas, barracuda fish, and trevallies are common-sighted fishlife here. The wall is considered the deepest point on the list of Deep dive sites in Andaman. 

Broken Ledge

Dive type: Advanced | Depth: 15-25 meters 

As the name suggests, Broken Ledge is a mixture of cracks, gaps, rifts, and openings. The fascinating site holds the name of Broken Ledge because of a landmark ridge with a broken tip. The dive site is surrounded by sand but you can easily swim through small canyons to find massive turtles, eels, and sea krait toggle lying between the cracks and gaps. The common spotted marine animals are yellow-fin tuna, Dogtooth, and marble rays. The site has an incredible reef fish density such as triggerfish, bannerfish, moray eels, schools of snappers, napoleon wrasses, lionfish, and barracudas.   

Suggested Read: SSI deep diving specialty course

White House Rock

Dive type: Advanced | Depth: 10-30 meters

The white house rock is made of black corals; over the years, black corals have developed in shining snow-white polyps consistently retaining the black shade on its stem. The one side of the dive site is steep and goes down to 30 meters where whip corals and fan corals cover its bottom. Whereas the other side is a gradual slope and is blessed with rich coral reefs. The reef has popular marine life such as schools of bannerfish, fusiliers, shrimps, surgeonfish, and snappers are commonly found there among many others.