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...

The Galapagos Islands offer diving encounters found nowhere else on Earth — schools of 300+ scalloped hammerheads at Darwin and Wolf Islands, marine iguanas gra...

Diving inside Santorini's volcanic caldera is geologically unique — the walls of the flooded crater plunge dramatically, with underwater hot springs and volcani...

Bora Bora's diving may be overshadowed by its luxury resort fame, but the marine life is excellent — manta rays at Anau, lemon sharks in Teavanui Pass, and barr...

Maui's Molokini Crater — a partially submerged volcanic caldera — is a natural fish bowl with outstanding visibility. Turtle Town delivers near-guaranteed Hawai...

Goa's diving won't win awards for visibility, but the combination of warm Arabian Sea water, wreck sites like the SS Rita, and rock-bottom prices make it India'...

Crystal River is the only place in the United States where you can legally swim with endangered Florida manatees in their natural habitat. Hundreds of manatees...

The Exumas chain stretches 365 cays across impossibly turquoise water, with the Land and Sea Park acting as a no-take zone where marine life flourishes. Nurse s...

Trou aux Biches is Mauritius' most popular dive coast, where warm lagoon water gives way to outer reef walls dropping into deep blue. The Cathedral — a cave div...

Phuket is Thailand's largest dive hub, serving as the gateway to the Similan Islands, Hin Daeng, and Richelieu Rock — some of Southeast Asia's finest sites. The...

Aruba's star attraction is the Antilla, a 400-foot WWII German freighter and the Caribbean's largest accessible wreck. The leeward coast offers calm, warm divin...

Barbados' Carlisle Bay is a shallow shipwreck graveyard where six wrecks sit in turquoise water, swarming with hawksbill turtles. The west coast offers gentle r...

Puerto Rico combines dramatic wall diving at Desecheo Island and La Parguera with the world's brightest bioluminescent bay at Mosquito Bay. No passport needed f...

Cabo San Lucas sits where the Pacific Ocean collides with the Sea of Cortez — what Jacques Cousteau called 'the world's aquarium.' The iconic sand falls cascade...

Playa del Carmen delivers an absurd variety of diving within a short radius: cenote caverns with otherworldly light beams, bull shark encounters from November t...

Crete combines legendary Minoan history with surprisingly good Aegean diving — the Elephant Cave with its ancient stalactites, WWII German aircraft wrecks, and...

Jeju Island is South Korea's volcanic UNESCO Geopark, where dramatic basalt formations extend underwater into gardens of vibrant soft corals. The island's famou...

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...

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

Turks and Caicos delivers sheer wall diving along the Columbus Passage, where the continental shelf drops thousands of feet into the deep Atlantic. During winte...

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

Silfra is unlike any dive on Earth — you float between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates in glacial spring water filtered through lava rock for de...

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...

Okinawa's 200+ coral species, Blue Cave cavern dives, and WWII wrecks make it Japan's dive capital. Summer brings manta rays at Kerama and warm 28°C water, whil...

St. Lucia's diving happens beneath the dramatic twin Pitons — UNESCO volcanic spires that tower above the dive sites. The Soufriere Marine Management Area prote...