I'm kind of sold on the Mexican Caribbean. The water is clean and transparent (and warm), the sealife is plentiful and pretty with a lot of variety from "aquarium" reef fish to turtles to squids, there are lots of big reefs (including the second largest Barrier Reef in the world, extending from around Cozumel down to Honduras) and a beautiful bottom geology.
The land here is limestone permeated by holes like Swiss cheese, holes ranging from tiny (giving a sort of "stone lace" appearance to cliffs) to the size of buildings (producing "cenotes"--flooded caverns which are a fresh=water diving trip in themselves.
There are alternate layers that are softer, so you get a lot of undercutting and caves and tunnels and such. Topped with trees of corals and seafans with fingerprint snails on them and teeming with parrotfish, French angles, queen angels, damselfish, cuttlefish, eels, trumpetfish, stonefish and a lot of beautiful little buggers I don't know the English names for.
Great question, man. I wish more people would post their favorite spots.
Tell me more about the Red Sea, if you would...I've heard great things about it from people I dive with here in Mexico.
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