Best Topside Experience Dive Destinations

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...

Turks and Caicos delivers stunning wall diving along the Columbus Passage, where the continental shelf drops thousands of feet into the deep Atlantic. During wi...

Aruba's star attraction is the Antilla, a 400-foot WWII German freighter and the Caribbean's largest accessible wreck. The leeward coast offers calm, warm divin...

Cabo San Lucas sits where the Pacific Ocean collides with the Sea of Cortez — what Jacques Cousteau called 'the world's aquarium.' The iconic sand falls cascade...

Crete combines legendary Minoan history with surprisingly good Aegean diving — the Elephant Cave with its ancient stalactites, WWII German aircraft wrecks, and...

Molokini Crater is a half-submerged volcanic caldera off Maui's south coast, its crescent shape sheltering crystal-clear water with 50-metre visibility. The 'ba...

Jeju Island is South Korea's volcanic UNESCO Geopark, where dramatic basalt formations extend underwater into gardens of vibrant soft corals. The island's famou...

The Cayman Islands offer a polished Caribbean diving experience with legendary sites like Stingray City — where you kneel on sand surrounded by friendly souther...

Monterey Bay is a mecca for macro photography and cold-water enthusiasts, offering dense kelp forests, flamboyant nudibranchs, and the chance to dive alongside...

Vis Island, Croatia's most remote inhabited island, was a military base closed to tourists until 1989, leaving its underwater world remarkably preserved. The Bl...

Goa's diving won't win awards for visibility, but the combination of warm Arabian Sea water, wreck sites like the SS Rita, and rock-bottom prices make it India'...

Trou aux Biches is Mauritius' most popular dive coast, where warm lagoon water gives way to outer reef walls dropping into deep blue. The Cathedral — a stunning...

Phuket is Thailand's largest dive hub, serving as the gateway to the Similan Islands, Hin Daeng, and Richelieu Rock — some of Southeast Asia's finest sites. The...

Barbados' Carlisle Bay is a shallow shipwreck graveyard where six wrecks sit in turquoise water, swarming with hawksbill turtles. The west coast offers gentle r...

Puerto Rico combines dramatic wall diving at Desecheo Island and La Parguera with the world's brightest bioluminescent bay at Mosquito Bay. No passport needed f...

Antigua boasts 365 beaches and a marine park at Cades Reef that protects the island's healthiest corals. Nelson's Dockyard in English Harbour provides world-cla...

Playa del Carmen delivers an absurd variety of diving within a short radius: cenote caverns with otherworldly light beams, bull shark encounters from November t...

Julian Rocks is a granite pinnacle just 2.5 km offshore from Byron Bay, sitting at the convergence of tropical and temperate currents. Grey nurse sharks aggrega...

Corsica's granite cliffs plunge into the Mediterranean to create dramatic underwater topography — swim-throughs, caverns, and walls carpeted in red coral and sp...

Montenegro's Adriatic coastline hides WWII wrecks, dramatic cave systems, and the fjord-like Bay of Kotor — a UNESCO World Heritage site that doubles as an unde...

Puget Sound is the Pacific Northwest's premier cold-water diving arena, where giant Pacific octopuses hunt in emerald waters and sixgill sharks cruise the deep...

Trou aux Biches on Mauritius's sheltered northwest coast is one of the island's premier dive areas, where volcanic rock formations create dramatic swim-throughs...

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...

Silfra is unlike any dive on Earth — you float between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates in glacial spring water filtered through lava rock for de...

Bodrum combines world-class nightlife and ancient history with surprisingly good Aegean diving. The area's wrecks, including cargo ships and military vessels, a...