Best Drift Diving Sites

Palau's underwater realm is a greatest-hits compilation of diving experiences: the legendary Blue Corner wall with its shark-filled currents, the ethereal Jelly...

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

Isabela is the largest Galápagos island and the gateway to the archipelago's most legendary dive sites — Cape Marshall's hammerhead highways and the cleaning st...

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...

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...

The Galapagos Islands offer diving encounters found nowhere else on Earth — schools of 300+ scalloped hammerheads at Darwin and Wolf Islands, marine iguanas gra...

Fiji has earned the title 'Soft Coral Capital of the World' — its reefs explode in electric pinks, purples, and oranges that create some of diving's most photog...

Vaavu Atoll is the Maldives' least-populated atoll and a magnet for experienced divers seeking adrenaline channel dives. Fotteyo Kandu, consistently rated one o...

Alor is one of the Coral Triangle's last true frontiers, where volcanic black-sand slopes harbor an absurd density of macro critters alongside schooling hammerh...

The Revillagigedo Archipelago (aka Socorro) is Mexico's premier big-animal destination, a UNESCO World Heritage site 24 hours by liveaboard from Cabo. Giant oce...

The Rowley Shoals are three coral atolls rising from 400-metre depths in the open Indian Ocean, 300 km west of Broome. Tidal exchanges of up to four metres flus...

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....

Cocos Island lies 340 miles off Costa Rica's Pacific coast, accessible only by a 36-hour liveaboard crossing — but the reward is arguably the planet's greatest...

Coiba Island is a UNESCO World Heritage site and former penal colony off Panama's Pacific coast, where nutrient-rich currents attract whale sharks, hammerheads,...

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...

North Malé Atoll surrounds the Maldivian capital and international airport, making it the easiest atoll to reach. Famous channels like Banana Reef and Manta Poi...

South Ari Atoll is the only place in the Maldives with year-round whale shark encounters, thanks to plankton-rich waters along the outer reef edge. Dhigurah's l...

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...

Aldabra is the world's largest raised coral atoll and a UNESCO World Heritage Site hosting 100,000 giant tortoises above water and pristine coral ecosystems bel...

St. John's Reef marks the southernmost point most Red Sea liveaboards reach, and the effort pays off with some of Egypt's most pristine coral and biggest sharks...

Kimbe Bay's volcanic seamounts rise from deep water creating nutrient-rich upwellings that support over 860 species of reef fish and 350 coral species. Hammerhe...

Baa Atoll is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve famous for Hanifaru Bay, where hundreds of manta rays gather in a feeding frenzy during the southwest monsoon. This spec...

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 Gulf Stream sweeps within a mile of Palm Beach's coast, creating world-class drift dives where you fly over reef ledges at 2-3 knots alongside goliath group...

Fuvahmulah is the Maldives' most remote single-island atoll, famous for guaranteed tiger shark encounters at the harbour cleaning station. This raw, unpolished...