Diving in Saipan Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
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About Diving in Saipan
Located at latitude of 15.25° north and longitude of 145.75° east, about 200 km (120 mi) north ofGuam,Saipanis about 20 km (12.5 mi) long and 9 km (5.5 mi) wide. The island is a popular dive destination in the Pacific, attracting a large number of "introductory", beginner, and advanced divers from Japan, Korea, America and elsewhere. Its underwater beauty and appeal to divers is greater thanHawaii's andGuam's, but less thanPalau's orAustralia'sGreat Barrier Reef. The island is a typical middle-aged island composed of ancient fossil-rich coral limestone atop a subsiding, extinct marine volcano. A fringing reef of healthy offshore corals forming an extremely large lagoon and many small shallow lagoons in its larger bays, as well as a few offshore subsurface coral mounts. Visibility, typicall
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