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 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
The best of both worlds The ‘dream luxury dive vacation’ often comes down to two primary preferences – land-based resort or dedicated dive yacht –
Shipwreck Central Grenada can quite rightly claim to be the ‘shipwreck capital of the Caribbean’, boasting a vast array of shipwrecks in depths to suit
Byron Conroy had always longed to pay a visit to the renowned Bunaken National Marine Park, but would it live up to his expectations? In
The Bahamas is one of the world’s top diving locations, famed for its dramatic walls and exciting drift dives, but what puts it firmly on
Lawson Wood returns to the Egyptian Red Sea and samples life in Soma Bay, one of several new resorts which has become established in recent
Langkawi, the other dive sites…. While most Malaysian divers have heard of the busy daytrips to Pulau Payar Marinepark in Langkawi, it is not as
Aron Arngrimsson, founder of The Dirty Dozen Expeditions, waxes lyrical about Operation Crossroads and how it made Bikini Atoll an iconic dive destination, as well
Discover why the triggerfish on Wakatobi reefs are worth a look. Though often overlooked by divers, triggerfish are worth a closer look. You often find
Seasoned dive photo journalist Al Hornsby is left entranced by the underwater topography and marine life in the Komodo National Park, not to mention the
An epic journey, bureaucratic red-tape and engine problems couldn’t stop Mark Powell revealing in the chance to dive the world’s first purpose-built aircraft carrier. There
Roatan is a huge destination for US divers, and it didn’t take long for Stuart Philpott to see the attraction of this small Caribbean island.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before – Edgar Allan Poe.
Mozambique’s picturesque coastal village of Ponta do Ouro promises lifetime memories both on the surface and underwater, as Al Hornsby reports. Being rather a fanatic
The Cayman Islands are one of the top diving destinations in the Caribbean, if not the world. Mark Evans explains the attraction of these three
Raja Ampat, Komodo, Alor, Banda Islands. No, this is not a bucket list of destinations I would like to dive over the next few years.
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