Polynesia is a sub region of Oceania and it is a group of islands that stretches across the Pacific Ocean from Hawaii in the north to New Zealand in the southwest. It also includes the countries of Samoa, Tonga, and Tuvalu, along with the French territory of French Polynesia.

Diving in Polynesia is incredibly diverse with over 1,000 scattered islands in the central and southern Pacific Ocean ensuring an insane amount of marine biodiversity. Indeed, it offers exciting diving destinations for the beginner, novice, and advanced divers.

When Polynesia is mentioned what comes to mind are other popular diving destinations such as French Polynesia, Samoa, Fiji, and so on. This is true since Polynesia basically include all the islands within the Polynesian triangle.

Hence, with this diversity, it is helpful to pick your Polynesian destination right from the start. Most divers prefer the French Polynesian islands for its excellent marine flora and fauna. Some prefer the calmness of Hawaii islands with plenty of underwater rock formations. While many others prefer to dive freely in the rich waters of Fiji. All of the islands offer unique diving experiences from exhilarating reef diving, wall diving, and cave diving to the relaxed shore diving.

Nonetheless, the marine flora and fauna in the area are incredibly great from small schooling fishes to the larger pelagic fishes such as dolphin, tuna, barracuda, grouper, and the gentle giants or whales all frolicking on the beautiful backdrop of hard and soft corals and a plenitude of other invertebrate species like the famed nudibranch.

There are also a myriad of wreck sites in the area, which cater to the interests of beginner and advanced divers.