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- A-Frame Area : Just five km south of Simon's Town you will find a small area with a few simple and shallow dive sites.
- A Frame : A-Frame is said to be named after a cave's opening resembling the letter A.
- Froggy Pond : Froggy Pond is a rocky dive site filled with seaweed, octopi and cuttlefish as the top marine attractions.
- Windmill Beach : Windmill Beach is a training dive site where you will find some small rocks covered in kelp.
- Aster : The scuttled shipwreck Aster has extended the already great artificial reef near Hout Bay significantly.
- Batsata Rock :
- Castle Rock :
- Clan Stuart, Brunswick, Bata : The Clan Stuart, Brunswick and Bata are three old wrecks from England which needs permission from the navy if you would like to dive it.
- Clifton Rocks : Clifton Rocks is a collection of boulders amidst huge kelp forest and excellent swimmthroughs.
- Geldkis : Geldkis is a cold Atlantic dive site offering boulders that have created a small chimney.
- Gordon's Bay :
- Balcony : One of the sheltered spots around Gordon Bay is the Balcony, great for a dive out of season.
- Coral Gardens : Almost any destination has a dive site called Coral Gardens, the one in False Bay is stunning.
- Cow & Calf : Reef and boulder dive site Cow and Calf is easy and popular by trainees.
- Crosses :
- Percy's : Visit dive site Percy's to dive on sponges, sea fans and kelp.
- Pinnacle :
- Steenbras Deep : One of the more popular dives in Gordon's Bay is Steenbras Deep.
- Steenbras River Mouth :
- Katzmaru : The oriental shipwreck the Katzmaru or Katsu Maru makes a great but deep wreck dive.
- Outer Castle : Outer Castle is the dive named after a huge boulder touching the surface at low tide.
- Partridge Point : Visit Partridge Point for some of the best chances of diving with seals.
- Pyramid Rock :
- Quarry :
- RMS Athens : The RMS Athens struck Mouille Point, South Africa during the 1865 famous gale.
- Roman Rock :
- SAS Pietermaritzburg : Scuba diving at the SAS Pietermaritzburg or HMS Pelorus while re-tracking its importance during D-Day, WWII.
- Smitswinkel Bay Wrecks : Scuttling five fantastic wrecks near each other in the 1970s created one of South Africa's best wreck graveyard.
- Spaniard Rock : Spaniard Rock is a large rock named because the bright red and yellow colours reminded divers of Spain.
- Sunny Cove :
- Knysna : Diving Knysna is great but its unpredictable weather and ever changing viz have made it a region not for all level of divers.
- Bruce Se Bank : One of the best diving locations outside the Heads of Knysna is Bruse Se Bank.
- Paquita Wreck : The Paquita Wreck was an old German sail ship that struck Knysna Heads in the beginning of the 19th century.
- Tapas Jetty : One of the lagoon dive sites named Tapas Jetty is famous for tiny animals such as the Knysna seahorse.
- Mossel Bay : Mossel Bay offers reef diving as well but became favourite because of its cage diving with the great white sharks.
- Phantom Wreck : Scuba diving the mysterious Phantom Wreck or Piesang is best done with a local guide as it is hard to find.
- Storms River Mouth : Storms River Mouth
- Avalanche Reef : A spectacular reef wall dive with enormous amounts of fish can be found at Avalanche Reef.
- Bell Bouy or Roman Rocks : Bell Bouy is a popular reef full of red roman fish reachable from Hobie Beach.
- Brenton Island : Brenton Island sits next to St Croix Island and has the same underwater landscape of dropoffs, caverns, walls and caves.
- Brenton Wreck : Brenton Wreck is a small fishing trailer popular by fishermen as well as divers for its gamefish.
- Cracker : Mussel Cracker is the most common species found around this pinnacle.
- Crossroads : A well known area for sharks is Crossroads where you will find ragged tooth, leopard, pyjama and shy sharks.
- Devil's Reef : Devil's Reef can be reached after only a 150m swim dropping you right onto the reef.
- Evans Peak : Evans Peak is a huge pinnacle dive site often surrounded with raggies.
- Gasmic Reef : Gasmic Reef consists out of a in hard and soft corals decorated narrow gorge.
- Gunner's Rock : An unnamed wreck found in 2002 is named Gunner's Rock after its huge gund which have been found on deck.
- Haerlem Wreck : A navy frigate named Haerlem Wreck was scuttled in Algoa Bay to form an extra artificial reef.
- John Dory's Reef : John Dory's Reef is an unspoiled secluded reef which lacks the huge crowds.
- Patti Wreck : A shallow wreck named Patti hit the reef in 1976.
- Phillips Reef : Near Hobie beach we have a spectacular gully featured reef named Phillips Reef.
- Raggie Sands : Raggie Sands is a labyrinth of gullies and a popular home to tens of ragged tooth sharks.
- Riy Banks : Riy Banks is a deep dive site famous for its steep and colourfull walls.
- Shark Rock Pier : Shark Rock Pier is a startoff point for reaching the many small reefs at just a stone's throw away.
- Slipway and Postmans : Slipway and Postmans is a popular shore dive mostly used by trainees.
- St. Croix Island : Pitoresque St. Croix Island is famous for its walls, caves and even penguins are occasionally seen.
- Suicide Reef : Suicide Reef is a thrilling reef with caves, walls, and big marine life.
- Thunderbolt Reef : One of the wildsite divesites is Thunderbolt, diving amidst boulders, steep walls and gullies.
- White Sands : White Sands is a popular reef with many narrow gulleys separated by patches of white sand.
- Zephyr's Wall : Zephyr's Wall is an eighty meter long ridge with gamefish and strong currents.
- Aliwal Shoal : Aliwal Shoal is a small submerged reef which has become famous for the thousands of ragged tooth sharks that live here in winter.
- MV Produce : The MV Produce was a huge molasses tanker that sank when she struck northeast pinnacle at Aliwal Shoal.
- Nebo Wreck : The Nebo was an old railway transport vessel who probably capsized because of a huge wave just one km northwest of Aliwal Shoal.
- Raggie Cave, Shark Alley : Raggies Cave is a huge cave where many ragged tooth sharks congregate creating an area often referred to as Shark Alley.
- Protea Banks : Protea Banks
- Cageless Baited Shark Diving : Try diving with Tiger Sharks without the uge of cages and when bait is used to feed them.
- North Pinnacle : Northern Pinnacles is a hard to find, remote but spectacular shark reef dive.
- Sardine Run : Watching the huge yearly migration of Sardines during the Sardine Run obviously attracting many predators.
- South Pinnacle : South Pinnacle is known for the Zambezi Shark, Guitar Sharks and Hammerheads are also often spotted.
- 2 Mile Reef : Two mile reef is because of its proximity to Durban and shallowness without doubt Sodwana's most favourite dive destination.
- 4 Buoy :
- Antons : Antons is a great ocean side relatively shallow reef with excellent coral formations and bait balls of schooling fish.
- Arches :
- Bikini North and South : The name Bikini comes from two separate ledges one to two meters high and in between fifty and one hundred meters long.
- Cat Reef :
- Caves & Overhangs :
- Chain :
- Coral Gardens :
- Deep Sponge :
- Hopscotch :
- Mellow Yellow :
- Pinnacles :
- Simon's Cave :
- Stringer :
- Wayne's World :
- 5 Mile Reef : Diving at 5 Mile Reef, Sodwana Bay
- Hotspot : Hotspot is another two meter high ledge of one hundred meters where zambezi and tiger sharks have been reported.
- Pothole :
- Ribbon :
- Snappers :
- 7 Mile Reef :
- Ramsey :
- 9 Mile Reef : Nine Mile Reef is one of the last frontiers of diving with some of the best examples of coral in South Africa.
- Jesser Point : Jesser Point is a sheltered dive site and also the launching spot for most dive boats.
- Quarter Mile :
- Uniform : Uniform is a small and deep reef patch just a bit further offshore than five mile reef.
- Badgat : Badgat is a famous inland freshwater cave system formed out of one of South Africa's flooded asbestos mines.
- Bushman's Hole : Bushman's Hole is with 270m the world's third deepest freshwater cave system in the world.
- Gansbaai :
- Komati Springs : Komati Springs is a famous inland freshwater recreationals and technical dive site.
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