Diving with Turtles in the Andamans (2026) — Best Sites for Green & Hawksbill Turtles

Best Andaman turtle dives at a glance

Sites where turtles appear in the plate's marine-life profile. Open a plate for current, hazards, and geo.

Dive site	Depth	Level	Turtle sighting
Turtle Beach	5–10 m	Beginner (Open Water)	Green and hawksbill on a shallow staghorn terrace
Mac Point	10–15 m	Beginner (Open Water)	Green turtles over seagrass (dugong forage too)
White House Rock	8–36 m	Advanced (slope: Open Water)	Hawksbill on a black-coral reef
South Button	6–30 m	Intermediate	Turtles inside a marine national park
Lighthouse	3–23 m	Beginner (Open Water)	Occasional turtles on an all-level slope

Named plates

beginner · 5–10 m · boat
Turtle Beach
Eastern fringing reef, Swaraj Dweep
Shallow staghorn gardens (often cited around 80% live cover) with regular green and hawksbill turtles. A gentle, complete site — density over drama — and a priority site for reef-health monitoring.
beginner · 10–15 m · boat
Mac Point
Seagrass and reef edge, Swaraj Dweep
Seagrass meadows and a quiet coral edge. Turtles are regular; dugong are reported here more than anywhere else in the Havelock set. Sensitive-species locations are coarsened on purpose.
advanced · 8–36 m · boat
White House Rock
Offshore reef, Swaraj Dweep
Named for black coral whose white polyps look, from a distance, like a house on the rock. Wall plus slope, turtles, and thick fish. A complete site, not a one-line listing.
intermediate · 6–30 m · boat
South Button
Button Islands Marine National Park
A tiny island of stacked rock columns, overhangs, a western mini-wall and an eastern coral garden. Park water, often gin-clear. South Button day is a flagship Havelock trip; operators typically attest these dives.

The most reliable turtle sites

Turtle Beach earns the name — a 5–10 m staghorn terrace on Havelock's eastern fringing reef, with green and hawksbill turtles among the healthiest shallow coral in the area. It is a beginner Open Water dive, which makes it the easiest turtle encounter in the set.

Mac Point is a shallow seagrass-and-reef edge (10–15 m) where green turtles graze — the same seagrass that draws the Andamans' rare dugong. Keep your distance and stay off the seagrass; this is a place to hover, not kneel.

South Button, inside the Button Islands Marine National Park, adds turtles to a protected reef with a garden for all levels and a wall for Advanced divers.

Turtles on deeper and advanced dives

White House Rock pairs hawksbill turtles with its namesake luminous black-coral polyps; the slope is Open Water friendly, the wall (to 36 m) is Advanced. Broken Ledge and Barracuda City both list sea turtles alongside their bigger draws — a bonus rather than the headline.

Season matters less for turtles than for pelagics — they are resident — but visibility and calm boats still favour the November–April window.

Also on this chart

Dive centres in the Andamans

Swaraj Dweep / Havelock

Shaheed Dweep / Neil

South Andaman

Lacadives at Chidiya Tapu
Survey No 116, Chidiya Tapu Village, South Andaman
PADI 5 Star Dive Resort

Questions people search

Where can I dive with turtles in the Andamans?

Turtle Beach and Mac Point on Havelock are the most reliable shallow, beginner-friendly turtle dives. White House Rock and South Button add turtles on deeper or protected reefs. All are living plates on Diver Atlas.

What kind of turtles live in the Andamans?

Green and hawksbill turtles are the ones you will most often see on the reef. Turtle Beach lists both; several other plates note resident or occasional turtles.

Can beginners dive with turtles in the Andamans?

Yes. Turtle Beach (5–10 m) and Mac Point (10–15 m) are beginner Open Water dives, so a newly certified diver can see turtles without going deep.

Diving with turtles in the Andamans: where to see green and hawksbill turtles

Best Andaman turtle dives at a glance

Named plates

Turtle Beach

Mac Point

White House Rock

South Button