Asia Scuba Diving Holidays are very diverse and cover a huge section of the world from the World Famous Waikiki Wreck Scuba dives where you can have submarines cruising past to the Great Barrier Reef of Australia a World Heritage site with awesome shark feeds. For really cheap Asia scuba diving holidays your best bet is in South East Asia especially ThailandCambodia and Viet Nam where cheap hotels start at $2 if you are on a real tight budget and discount flights into Bangkok are the cheapest international flights in the world from just about anywhere.
Waikiki Scuba Diving. Cheapshore dives are what the locals are into you have the Pipe and Magic Island downtown, Portlock and several sites on North Shore 3 tables and sharks cove with its great cave - lava tube dives and the Wainaie coast with the huge turtles at Electric beach. The best though is Hanama Bay which is a sunken volcano and is the same as swimming in a giant aquarium great location even if you are a free diver or snorkler..Some of the day charters out of Waikiki can be a as cheap as $30 a dive if you negotiate hard and get them on a slow day. Over on the Big Island of Hawaii you have several shore dives that are awesome like Honaunau and Kalakakua bay with over 100 different types of fish.Maui has a few spots that are great for shore divining like little McKenna beach but one the best scuba diving sites in the world is Molikini Crater ,on one trip there we watched 2 oceanic manta rays get cleaned, We saw a dragon moray octopus turtles, sharks with 85 meter vis Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dive shops to look for Jacks Diving Locker Kona, Deep Ecology North Shore Oahu Ocean Concepts Honolulu, Hawaii Fish and Dive Hawaii Kai
South East Asia Scuba Diving Holidays
Warm water scuba diving with lots of fish and beautiful soft corals and its cheap Dive Course in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam are major draws EcoSea Dive has some of the best values while earning your PADI or SSI Open Water Scuba Diving cards.Koh Tao and Phuket are the most popular destinations with Koh Sumui Koh Lanta Krabi and the Similans up in to Burma on the Burma Banks. Also popular for scuba diving courses is Malaysia Scuba Diving in Perhentian Islands
Australia Scuba Diving Holidays are not very cheap. The reasons being that most of the reef is located very far of shore. Australia also has some the most strict rules on diving and any gear that is imported faces stiff import tax's Don't look to buy Scuba Diving equipment Your best bet is negotiate on to a live aboard the closer to the departure date the better for you if they have openings The Taka out of Cairns was a awesome experience on the trip that goes out to the Coral Sea Huge sharks ands lots of fish I must of seen at least 20 types of butterfly's that I though I would never a see. We didn't get to Nigala but we have heard that they have a lot of Whale Sharks and the reef is much closer to the shore so the diving should be less expensive than the options in Cairns Sydney