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Saipan scuba diving presents these pictures of the world's top 25 dive spots and below rate the best of the Northern Marianas Islands!! From the Grotto to the Great Barrier reef we bring you a glimpse of the under sea world. Of course Micronesia tops the chart!
1. Kayangle Kayangle Island, Palau
 Clownfish defend the anenome, Kayangel Island, Palau Islands.
2. Belilou Walls (Yellow, Express, & Belilou), Palau Islands
 Clowntrigger fish, Blue Grotto, Island of Saipan 2001!!
3. Spanish Wall, Yap Islands
 4. Blue Grotto - Temple of Doom & Serpentine Tunnel to Bird Island, Saipan Island, MP Left- Eagle Rays zoom past Saipan's Blue Grotto.
5. Ahnd Atoll, Pohnpei
6. Blue Corner & Ngemelis Wall, Palau, Rock Islands
 7. Goat Island, Northern Marianas Islands Left- An eight foot juvenile Oceanic Whitetip Shark visits Goat Island 2000.
8) Walung Coral Gardens & Drop Off, Kosrae
 9. Tebatua Reef, Sulu Sea, Philippines Left - Titanfish rests in the Sulu Sea
 10. Kamikaze Maru & Chandelier Cave, Palau Islands Left - The ol dive photographer drifts through Shark Ally, Palau
 11. Hobbit House & French Tunnel ,Rota Island, Northern Marianas Islands Left - Diver enters the seldom seen Hobbit House!!!
12. Burma Banks, Andomone Sea, Burma
 Cruising on a Bonzaii Cliff night dive, Saipan, Marianas Islands!!
13. Banda Islands, Manado, Sulawesi, Indonesia
 Clownfish on fire in the Flores Sea, 1999!
14. Spice Island dive, Lovina Beach, Bali, Indonesia
 15. Goofnuw Channel (The Manta Dive), Yap Islands Left -Divephotographer in Yap
 16. Prinz Eugen, Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, Micronesia. Can you say CALAMARI, Saipan.
17. SanFrancisco Maru, Chuuk Lagoon Below - A Napoleon Wrasse slips by the 240 ft deep SF Maru!!!!!!!!!
 18. Kenawa Islands west of Naha, Okinawa
Above- Pecs down at Blue Corner, Palau!!
 19. Maumere, Flores, Indonesia Left - A Flores whale shark that dove with us 2 days in a row!!!!
 20. Sharkpoint - Gili Trawanga, Lombock, Indonesia Left Clamgirl in a 1998 Gili Islands, Lombock, Indonesia dive!
21. Harnom Point & Senhanom Cave, Rota Island, NMI
22. Tokai Maru & the Comoran, Guam
23. Marine Preserve, Lanaii, Hawaii
24. Lizard Island, Autralia
25. Cod Hole & Cook's Pass, Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Photos by Ron Hodges
CNMI Top 20
1. Morgan’s Reef , Rota
2. Hobbit House, Rota
3. The Grotto(Serpentine), Saipan
4. Bonzai Cliff , Saipan
5. Moochung Beach, Rota
6. French Tunnel, Rota
7. Senhanom Wall & Cave, Rota
8. Joanne’s Reef to Pinnacles, Rota
9. Pearlman Tunnel - Pona Point, Rota
10. Goat Island
11. Tinian Grotto & Dump
12. Bird Island to Grotto, Saipan
13. Grotto (Temple of Doom), Saipan
14. Shoen Maru, Rota
15. Naftan, Saipan
16. Ice Cream & Dimple, Saipan
17. Boyscout, Obyan Beach, Saipan
18. Santa Margarita, Rota
19. Conception, Saipan
20. Chinsen Mauru, W Lagoon,Saipan *
*I got married at this one???
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