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Coastal dive site scan be in the sea or inland waters, but unless specified, generally refer to coastal areas on a continental shelf, or near an island in the sea.. Sea and ocean shorelines, reefs and shoals are salt water sites and may support high biodiversity of life forms.
BOS 400 – Recent wreck and dive site at Duiker Point on the Cape Peninsula west coast; Bottle Island – One of the Summer Isles in Loch Broom, Scotland; Bowie Seamount – Submarine volcano in the northeastern Pacific Ocean; Breda – Dutch ship sunk off Scotland in 1940, now a recreational dive site. Brian Davis – Iris-class buoy tender
Many wall dive sites are in close proximity to more gently sloping reefs and unconsolidated sediment bottoms. No special training is required, but good buoyancy control skills are necessary for safety. Wall dive sites vary considerably in depth, and many are suitable for drift diving when a moderate current flows along the wall.
To keep the number of categories down, diving regions may be categorised with dive sites, but if a category of dive sites by country gets large it may be split into dive sites by country and dive regions by country. A terrestrial settlement is not a dive site, but may contain a dam, cave, or other water filled feature which is a dive site.
The geographical location of a dive site can have legal or environmental consequences. Tropical diving – Diving in tropical waters; Temperate water diving – Diving in temperate waters; Polar diving - Diving in polar waters; Altitude diving – Underwater diving at altitudes above 300 m; Cave diving – Diving in water-filled caves
Inland dive site – Sites in bodies of water inland of the sea coastline; Inland diving – Diving in waters inland of the coastal high water mark. Inner ear barotrauma – Pressure injury to the inner ear; Inner ear decompression sickness – Medical condition caused by inert gas bubbles forming out of solution
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