🇲🇿Mozambique

Mozambique is best planned as three separate Indian Ocean diving regions. Ponta do Ouro and Ponta Malongane offers surf-launched reef boats, sharks and a marine sector of Maputo National Park near the South African border. Tofo and Barra, based around the Inhambane peninsula, pairs shallow training reefs with deeper cleaning stations and search-based whale shark and manta experiences. Bazaruto Archipelago and Vilanculos is the island-and-seagrass alternative, with Two Mile Reef, dhow excursions and important dugong habitat. The broad weather-first period is May to September, though winds and visibility vary by coast. Humpback whales migrate along the shore mainly in the austral winter. Marine-wildlife sightings are not assured, and long-term research documents steep manta and whale shark declines. Protected-area permits, the electronic travel authorization process, cyclone exposure and medical evacuation planning all matter. Northern Cabo Delgado and designated neighboring districts are subject to serious security warnings and should not be folded into an ordinary dive itinerary.