Stretching over 1,400 miles along Australia's northeast coast, the Great Barrier Reef is the planet's largest coral reef system and one of its most iconic natur...

Cozumel's reputation as the drift diving capital of the world is well earned — gentle-to-moderate currents carry divers effortlessly along spectacular walls and...

Bonaire pioneered marine conservation in the Caribbean and remains the ultimate shore diving destination, with 86 marked dive sites accessible by simply driving...

The Cayman Islands offer a polished Caribbean diving experience with legendary sites like Stingray City — where you kneel on sand surrounded by friendly souther...

The Maldives is synonymous with luxury diving, where overwater bungalows give way to channel dives teeming with grey reef sharks, eagle rays, and the archipelag...

Fiji has earned the title 'Soft Coral Capital of the World' — its reefs explode in electric pinks, purples, and oranges that create some of diving's most photog...

Papua New Guinea sits within the Coral Triangle and combines extraordinary biodiversity with a treasure trove of WWII wrecks from the Pacific theater. Milne Bay...

Roatan sits on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef — the world's second largest — and delivers an astonishing value proposition: world-class wall diving at budget-fri...

Zanzibar and neighboring Mafia Island offer an intoxicating blend of Swahili culture and Indian Ocean marine life, headlined by reliable whale shark encounters...

The Channel Islands off Southern California offer a diving experience unlike any tropical destination — towering kelp forests that filter golden light, playful...

Truk Lagoon contains the world's greatest concentration of diveable shipwrecks — over 60 Japanese vessels sunk during Operation Hailstone in February 1944. Thes...

Cocos Island lies 340 miles off Costa Rica's Pacific coast, accessible only by a 36-hour liveaboard crossing — but the reward is arguably the planet's greatest...

Monterey Bay is a mecca for macro photography and cold-water enthusiasts, offering dense kelp forests, flamboyant nudibranchs, and the chance to dive alongside...

Jacques Cousteau declared Sipadan 'an untouched piece of art,' and the island's vertical walls dropping 2,000 feet remain among diving's most iconic experiences...

Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the heart of the Sulu Sea, is accessible only by liveaboard during a narrow March-to-June season....

Bunaken National Marine Park features sheer walls that plunge 300m+ into the Celebes Sea, draped in healthy hard and soft corals. The park's strict protection s...

Wakatobi sits at the heart of the Coral Triangle with some of the highest reef fish counts ever recorded. The house reef at Wakatobi Dive Resort alone has 500+...

Raja Ampat is the center of the Coral Triangle — 600+ coral species and 1,700 reef fish species, more per hectare than anywhere else measured. Getting here take...

The Socorro Islands (Revillagigedo Archipelago) are Mexico's answer to the Galapagos — a remote volcanic chain where giant Pacific mantas, some with 20-foot win...

The Derawan archipelago offers an improbable combination: a stingless jellyfish lake (Kakaban), manta cleaning stations, turtle nesting beaches, and undamaged r...

Jardines de la Reina is one of the Caribbean's last great marine wilderness areas, protected as a no-take zone since 1996. Dozens of Caribbean reef sharks circl...

Sanganeb is the Red Sea's only atoll, a UNESCO World Heritage Site rising from deep water 25 km offshore of Port Sudan. Schooling hammerheads, grey reef sharks,...

Lembeh Strait is the planet's greatest concentration of bizarre marine critters per square meter. The black volcanic sand slopes host mimic octopuses, hairy fro...

Kimbe Bay's volcanic seamounts rise from deep water creating nutrient-rich upwellings that support over 860 species of reef fish and 350 coral species. Hammerhe...

A Conservation International survey found Atauro Island holds the world record for reef fish diversity at a single site — 643 species in one hour. These undistu...