From California's kelp forests and the walls of the Northwest to Florida's clear springs, the Midwest's shipwreck graveyards and Texas' Flower Gardens, we give you the best of our home region.

A Florida father and his teenage son drowned during a cave dive on Christmas day while trying out new scuba equipment they'd received for the holidays, according to media reports.

Check out some of our favorite purpose-sunk wrecks — they're just as good, and maybe even better, than the real thing.

American divers are the luckiest on the planet. Our fair country boasts some of the best dive sites in the world.

Gabriel Spataro encounters Key Largo's Christ of the Abyss more than six decades after he helped bring it to the U.S.

For many underwater photographers, capturing a frogfish on film is a rare event. So how does a photographer find two? Find out how Rebecca Hewett got this image, which earned her an Honorable Mention Award in _Scuba Diving_'s 2013 Underwater Photography Contest.

The Florida Panhandle Shipwreck Trail takes artificial-reef lovers on a tour of more than 40 known wrecks stretching from Panama City to Pensacola.

The Weeki Wachee mermaids are an amazing sight north of Tampa, Florida, but see what it takes to bring the magic to life.