Ariella has been a writer and editor with Scuba Diving Magazine since 2021. She fell in love with the underwater world early in life and worked as a scuba instructor on both coasts of the U.S. while completing college and her graduate work in Marine Biology. When she isn’t on travel assignments or editing stories, she enjoys outdoor adventure sports, tending to the jungle of plants in her home and taking copious photos of her cats, Squid and Ham.
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Ariella Simke Articles
A PADI Scuba Instructor tries out liveaboard diving for the first time in the Philippines with her family in tow. Here's what came out of the adventure.
A team of hammer-wielding divers cull urchins off the coast of California in an effort to restore kelp forests.
A growing industry demands a new approach to wildlife tourism in Baja California Sur.
Under the jungle floor along the Yucatan Peninsula, thousands of limestone sinkholes and flooded cave systems--called Cenotes--await adventurous divers who don't mind close quarters. This is what it's like to explore them for the first time
A drive-and-dive trip takes a diver through a near-bottomless spring, an underwater winter, the caverns of Kornati National Park and other otherworldly sites.
Diving Croatia’s Edivo Vina winery lets you fin through a purpose-sunk “Game of Thrones” ship and head home with a bottle of wine aged in the sea.
Splendid wrecks, saltwater lakes, natural cathedrals and more await divers along Croatia’s northern, central and southern coasts.
Here’s what time of year Croatian dive centers are operating, how to get around the country, what gear you need and more.
Data on the trash were reported to PADI AWARE's Dive Against Debris database, the largest underwater marine debris database in the world.