Best Dive Sites for Underwater Photography

Curaçao is the Caribbean's best-kept shore diving secret, with over 65 marked sites along a fringing reef that drops into walls within swimming distance of shor...

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....

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

Bonaire pioneered marine conservation in the Caribbean and remains the ultimate shore diving destination, with 86 marked dive sites accessible by simply driving...

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...

Jardines de la Reina is one of the Caribbean's last great marine wilderness areas, protected as a no-take zone since 1996. Dozens of Caribbean reef sharks circl...

Milne Bay is a macro photographer's dream where bizarre critters — hairy frogfish, mimic octopus, ornate ghost pipefish — hide in volcanic black sand against a...

Navy Pier consistently ranks as Australia's number one shore dive, a decommissioned military pier in the Ningaloo Marine Park teeming with life at every depth....

The Kerama Islands are a national park archipelago 40 km west of Okinawa's main island, famous for 'Kerama Blue' — water so clear that 50-metre visibility is co...

Papua New Guinea sits within the Coral Triangle and combines extraordinary biodiversity with a treasure trove of WWII wrecks from the Pacific theater. Milne Bay...

Dumaguete is the Visayas' dive hub, offering world-class muck diving at Dauin where flamboyant cuttlefish and blue-ringed octopus hide in volcanic sand. Day tri...

Christmas Island is an Australian territory rising from deep Indian Ocean waters, where sheer walls drop thousands of meters just offshore. The annual red crab...

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...

Ha'apai is Tonga's most remote island group and the epicentre of the kingdom's humpback whale encounters. From July to October, mothers and calves rest in the w...

Manado is the gateway to two world-class dive areas: Bunaken Marine Park, famous for sheer walls dropping 300 meters, and nearby Lembeh Strait, the muck diving...

Xcalak is the last town before the Belize border, a tiny fishing village guarding access to Chinchorro Bank — the Western Hemisphere's largest coral atoll. The...

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...

Mabul is Sipadan's macro-obsessed neighbor. While Sipadan delivers walls and pelagics, Mabul's sandy slopes harbor one of the world's richest concentrations of...

New Caledonia's UNESCO-listed barrier reef encloses the world's largest lagoon, home to dugongs, nautiluses, and an astonishing array of endemic species. The Fr...

Kosrae is arguably the least-dived island in Micronesia, where near-100% hard coral coverage creates underwater gardens of staggering beauty. No bleaching event...

Siquijor is the Philippines' 'island of fire,' famed for its mystic healers and firefly-lit balete trees. Underwater, healthy house reefs slope into walls with...

Roatan sits on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef — the world's second largest — and delivers an astonishing value proposition: world-class wall diving at budget-fri...

Blue Heron Bridge in Phil Foster Park is America's best shore dive — free to access, just 15ft deep, and packed with an absurd density of macro critters. Seahor...

Providencia sits within the Seaflower UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, protecting the third-largest barrier reef in the world. The island's remoteness from mainland Co...

Sanganeb is the Red Sea's only atoll, a UNESCO World Heritage Site rising from deep water 25 km offshore of Port Sudan. Schooling hammerheads, grey reef sharks,...