There are many places in the world where divers can see specific large marine animals, but only a few locations offer the opportunity to see many different kinds of animals all at once.
Dive Locations
Where in the world is Saint Helena? So apt a question was this that it became a marketing slogan for the tiny island in the South Atlantic off the southwest coast of Africa.
It took more than an hour to drive from the hotel in Cancun to the Abyss Dive Center near Playa del Carmen. After securing our gear, we got into the back of an old truck for the next part of the journey.
The waters off North Carolina’s coast are often called the Graveyard of the Atlantic, thanks to the more than 1,000 wrecks scattered across the seafloor from Currituck Beach in the north to Cape Fear in the south.
All wrecks hold some measure of beauty, fascination and appeal, but some wrecks stay with you long after the dive is over. History, tragedy, or mystery can combine to make a wreck just that much more haunting, and because of it, fascinating.
Featured in the BBC series Nature’s Great Events as well as The Blue Planet, the sardine run is comparable to the Serengeti’s wildebeest migration in terms of sheer biomass, and attracts divers from all over the world.
There are plenty of fantastic places to dive in the world that won’t drain your bank account — here are a few of our favorites.
Located in the Caribbean Sea just off the northeastern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula, the waters of Isla Mujeres continue to play host to hundreds of whale sharks each year, in a phenomenon that scientists now think has been taking place for many years, despite its relatively recent scientific discovery in 2009.
Thirty minutes from Malapascua is the sunken island known as Monad Shoal, where thresher sharks come in to rid themselves of parasites at the reef’s cleaning stations.
One of the Red Sea’s most controversial wrecks leaves a big impression on divers
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The Great Barrier Reef. It’s iconic. It’s majestic. It’s the only living organism visible from outer space.
Anyone who has ever been to Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt will probably have made at least one dive in the Straits of Tiran.
Novice divers and even snorkelers can enjoy this World War II shipwreck on Bali
You may not think of Anguilla as a dive destination — but you should.
Within this archipelago, the dive sites at Darwin’s Arch and Wolf Island are approximately 24 hours by boat, across an open sea, from the southern islands, making them one of the world’s more remote dive sites.
For two glorious weeks in November, Scuba Diver Life went to the Galapagos Islands aboard two different live boards to see as much as we could both above and below the water.
For two glorious weeks in November, Scuba Diver Life went to the Galapagos Islands aboard two different live boards to see as much as we could both above and below the water.