As the world's third-largest country, the United States of America is home to a plethora of awe-inspiring tourist attractions: the Big Apple, the Grand Canyon, Vegas, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Niagra Falls and more. Yet, when it comes to diving, the USA often gets overlooked. As a vast…
While it may rank second behind Latin America in terms of being home to the most overall biodiversity, Asia does hold the ace in the hole when it comes to being the king of marine biodiversity. With the Coral Triangle taking centre stage and covering the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia,…
With an area of almost three million square miles, Australia covers nearly the same amount of land as the entire European continent. The vast, expansive country features over 20,000 miles of coastline that give access to some of the best-known and best-loved dive locations on the planet.…
While the three flights needed to reach your destination from the UK may raise an eyebrow, once you've jumped in and sampled some of the best dive sites in Komodo, you'll quickly realise that it was well worth the effort.
There are very few divers in the world who have not at least considered a trip to Indonesia. The country sits at the heart of the world's marine biodiversity, and among its 17,000 islands, Indonesia boasts some of the finest diving on the planet. But where is the best diving in Indonesia?…
The Central American neighbours of Mexico and Belize boast some of the best diving in the region. Mexico dwarfs its neighbour in size and has one foot in the Caribbean Sea and the other in the Pacific Ocean; while Belize is smaller, and its coastline is lapped by the Caribbean Sea on the…
They say, 'It's the journey, not the destination'. Well, maybe 'they' are not scuba divers. While the journey can be spectacular, you can't dive during the journey, and often, when embarking on an epic diving holiday, the journey can be very long. Sometimes we want to dive, but just don't…
In days long since passed, uncharted areas of maps were inscribed with the Latin phrase 'hic sunt dracones'- here be dragons. In modern times, that phrase would look out of place on any map, unless it was a map of Komodo and its neighbouring island of Rinca (pronounced Rin-cha). In this part…
Below the waves, Central and South America boast some of the finest diving on the planet: the world's second-largest barrier reef, freediving lizards, majestic mantas, blue holes and cenotes, schooling hammerheads and more. Topside, you have the Amazon rainforest, Incan and Mayan ruins, the…
Indonesia's 'Island of the Gods' boasts some of the most diverse diving around, and it's quite possible to spot (or have pointed out by your eagle-eyed guide) a new cryptic critter each time you venture below the waves. Bali's bountiful dive sites, slap-bang in the middle of the Coral…