Your dive site is sooo gay.
We hope there will be a day when all dive site are friendly to all people but until then check out this feature article on OutTraveler.com that lists the following among the worlds most gay-friendly dive spots.
- Koh Samui, Thailand’s third largest island, boasts the country’s only LGBT diving organization. Rainbow Scubacoordinates trips in the calm southern Gulf of Thailand around neighboring Koh Tao
- Cuacao has the Caribbean’s only official gay tourism push. Gay-friendly dive operator Ocean Encounters, located at the southeastern coast’s Curaçao Underwater Park, is a five-minute drive from Willemstad’s late-night gay bar, Lyrics. Its Westpunt operation sits next to gay-owned Lodge Kura Hulanda, 100 feet from a fish-filled reef, and makes frequent excursions to the surreal hard-coral landscape of the Mushroom Forest.
- On the Great Barrier Reef go to Cairns for gay-owned lodging and underwater visits with the 100 pound–plus residents of the nearby Cod Hole. To the south, Brisbane’s Spring Hill neighborhood bustles with gay nightlife, the perfect bookend to a stay at Heron Island’s reef-side luxury dive resort. Undersea Expeditions plans annual gay group scuba trips Down Under.
- On Bali, Dive the Rainbow leads gay underwater safaris from coast to coast, hitting highlights like the coral-encrusted World War II shipwreck Liberty, submerged beneath 10,308-foot Mount Agung, and the waters around Nusa Penida island where from June to November prehistoric-looking mola mola (sunfish) the size of dinner tables are the star attraction. Set up base in the urban south to savor Seminyak’s thriving queer community; gay visitors and expats haunt Q Bar and Kudos in the town center.
- On the Big Island of Hawaii, Gay-friendly Kona Honu Diversvisits spots populated by spinner dolphins, dragon eels, and lava tubes, but one of the world’s most sought-after trips happens after sunset: diving with gentle manta rays — some with 12-foot wingspans! — in shallow Keauhou Bay south of the main town, Kailua-Kona.
- Check out the full article on OutTraveler.com
Wet Cat Scuba would like to add one cool spot to this hot list. If you fancy some cold water diving with the giant Pacific octopus and the many other unique creatures of the the beutiful Pacific Nothwest we can hook you up with the scene and the divers to guide you to perfect spots in our Emerald Sea. Also check out the Bottom Dwellers at http://www.bottomdwellers.org.They are a lesbian and gay scuba diving club in Seattle, Washington. We have members throughout Washington State, as well as British Columbia and do have some straight members as well. As one of those straight members and in the light of journalistic full disclosure, we can testify that this group great and friendly bunch of divers.