Planning your next scuba diving week away, or dreaming up your next tropical bucket-list destination? Dive in to reports of scuba diving sites and locations from all around the world
As we all look forward to life getting back to some semblance of normality through 2022, Editor-at- Large Walt Stearns dives into his back catalogue
Day 1 of my Palau Diving Adventure onboard the Black Pearl: Orientation and Briefings Palau has been very high up on my list of destinations
Bonaire’s Town Pier and Salt Pier are ‘signature’ dives, but Mark Evans reckons that the Cement Pier on Barbados beats them both hands down. A
If you like ‘big stuff’, Palau is the capital. One of the best places in the world to dive with sharks, mantas and big schools
Muck Diving in Sydney’s Chowder Bay How many divers love to travel overseas for a dive holiday? How many can afford to do this too
Scuba Diver North America Editor Walt Stearns makes a memorable passage through the Flores Island group on the Arenui luxury liveaboard. Did you know? Alor
The recent COVID lockdowns followed by an extremely harsh winter has resulted in a difficult three years for the dive industry. Coupled with ever-increasing compliance
The Solomons is one of those rare destinations for scuba divers that has something to suit everyone’s underwater appetite. Whether that’s colourful coral reefs, large
Adrian Stacey explores Queenland’s latest artificial reef, the floating Wonder Reef, and finds that the innovative structure more than lives up to its name Diving
Turkey Beach is known as one of the best sites in the Wakatobi marine preserve to find turtles.
From the air, the Solomon Islands archipelago looks like a tropical island paradise – and it is. But just over 70 years ago, this was the
Don Silcock is left in awe by the majestic pelagics which can be found off Mozambique, including whalesharks and manta rays. On the south-eastern seaboard
Technical diver Kurt Storms pays a visit to the final resting place of the Salem Express, which tragically took the lives of hundreds of people
High style diving aboard Pelagian reveals the never-ending riches of Indonesia’s underwater realm Each evening just before sunset, coral laced rock piles around the base
Wrecks exist for many reasons – storms, wartime casualties, navigational errors, collisions and onboard accidents such as fires. Wrecks also have histories that capture our
As Ocean Day approaches, we present a travellers’ guide to protecting Sabah’s seas and reefs. Introduction: Responsible Travelling to Sabah Have you, like many around
Cephalopod Venom and the Blue-Ringed Octopus Family All cephalopods use venom in their bites to subdue prey. Most squid, cuttlefish and octopus venom is so
A city perfectly in tune with the ocean; there’s more to Sydney than surface appearances suggest. Dive in a bit deeper and you will find
Quenching the Coral-Thirst in Indonesia’s Bangka Island After a few years focusing his diving around Australia’s temperate waters, Nicolas Remy was looking for a destination
Locate a sea anemone and you’ll probably run into some of Nemo’s cohabiting cousins. Take a closer look among the undulating tentacles and you might also happen upon a tiny harlequin crab slurping up food scraps from its host’s leftover dinner.
Raja Ampat Local Activities Guide, these are some of the Topside Highlights If you’ve never been to Raja Ampat before, you’re in for the vacation
How To Get To Raja Ampat, Indonesia With the development of transport services to the area, there is now an airport that is serviceable by
This might be the perfect dive vacation: Start with a visit to one of the world’s most iconic dive resorts, where you explore pristine coral
Wakatobi’s Dive Site #3, The Zoo A zoo is a place that can be enjoyed by everyone. So it’s a fitting name for one of
Michele Westmorland was captivated by the underwater delights around Roatan, in the Bay Islands of Honduras. Flying into Roatan off the coast of Honduras, the
Scuba Diver North America’s Editor Walt Stearns heads for North Carolina’s Outer Banks in search of historic shipwrecks and sand tiger sharks. There is a
The Turks and Caicos Islands are often described as a ‘wild frontier’ where the Atlantic Oceans meet the Caribbean Sea, and are a British Overseas
Stuart Philpott makes the short hop to Spain and finds that Cala Joncols offers a diverse mix of dive sites to keep even the most-hardcore
Al Hornsby island-hops around four very different, but equally appealing, resorts in the magical Maldives and finds the each has much to offer visiting divers.
Want to know the best spots to dive on the Great Barrier Reef? Deborah Dickson-Smith asked Master Reef Guides to choose their top 12 dives
The Limestone in the Raja Ampat Archipelago When visiting Raja Ampat, one of the most awe-inspiring moments is when you first encounter the limestone cliffs
Walt Stearn’s pays a visit to Jupiter’s Hole-in-the-Wall dive site, one of the most-popular ‘technical depth’ locations in the area. Every destination has its ‘signature
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