Best Dive Sites for Underwater Photography

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....

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

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

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

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...

Raja Ampat sits at the epicenter of the Coral Triangle, harboring over 600 coral species and 1,700 reef fish species — more biodiversity per hectare than anywhe...

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...

Mabul is Sipadan's macro-obsessed neighbor. While Sipadan delivers walls and pelagics, Mabul's sandy slopes harbor one of the world's richest concentrations of...

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...

Blue Heron Bridge in Phil Foster Park is America's best shore dive — free to access, just 15ft deep, and packed with an absurd density of macro critters. Seahor...

The Egyptian Red Sea is a pilgrimage for wreck divers, anchored by the legendary SS Thistlegorm — a WWII supply ship frozen in time at 100 feet with motorcycles...

The Brothers Islands are two remote pinnacles 60km offshore, accessible only by liveaboard. Hammerheads school at 40m, oceanic whitetips patrol the blue, and th...

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

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...

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

Daedalus Reef is a solitary oval reef marked by a lighthouse, 80km offshore in the Red Sea. The isolation means sharks dominate — hammerheads at depth, thresher...

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

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...

Komodo National Park delivers adrenaline-fueled diving in nutrient-rich currents that attract massive manta rays and dense schools of pelagics. Above water, the...

The Great Blue Hole is diving's most recognizable natural wonder — a near-perfect 1,000-foot-wide circle of deep blue surrounded by the shallow turquoise of Lig...

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

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...

Ningaloo is the world's largest fringing reef — 260km of coral accessible directly from shore. Whale sharks congregate from March to July following coral spawni...

The SS Yongala sank in a cyclone in 1911 and is now arguably the world's best wreck dive for marine life density. Giant groupers the size of cars, sea snakes by...