Sometimes, the hardest part about planning a dive trip is deciding where to go. These are the most exciting destinations at the top of our ever-growing must-dive list.

Language barriers don’t exist under the water. Here’s how one explorer forged new lifelong friendships while on a creature-spotting tour of southern Japan’s best diving spots.

Founder of Sanriku Volunteer Divers, Hiroshi Sato is committed to cleaning natural-disaster debris, leading seaweed restoration efforts and training the next generation of mission-driven divers.

For divers, all archipelagos are not created equal. Follow our lead to nine of the most awe-inspiring of the bunch.

One of our most coveted awards: Find out which operators, resorts and liveaboards made our Top 100 Gold List!

The coastal waters of Japan belong almost exclusively to the fishermen who supply the Japanese population with most of the protein in its diet. Reluctantly, the fishermen share a small portion of their realm with the many scuba divers from ...

In the shadow of Mt. Fuji, temperate waters offer up a tapestry of marine life as colorful as a new kimono.