I owe my love of diving to summer camp, getting certified at age 14. After college, I became an instructor, teaching on the island of St. Croix. Working for travel magazines, I've been lucky to travel to every continent on assignment, from jumping in the water with humpback whales in Antarctica to swimming alongside mantas in Asia.
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Check out some of our favorite purpose-sunk wrecks — they're just as good, and maybe even better, than the real thing.
Alabama's new artifical reef for recreational divers, LuLu, was sunk off the state's Gulf Coast in May 2013. She's a beauty!
These human-assisted habitats act like defibrillation paddles, revving up struggling reefs and reviving declining fish populations from Florida to Indonesia and beyond.
Stake a claim on the last unknown frontier: It lies just beneath our feet. The wonders of scuba diving in caves.
Due to their keen camouflage tricks and seeming ability to outsmart us, octopuses fascinate divers. The hunt is only the beginning: We scan reef and rubble for tentacles and shell piles, occasionally rewarded with an opportunity to discover this animal’s reactions. Will we be deceived, or do we give octopuses too much credit?
Discover the best scuba diving in the USA, from Florida Keys reefs to Pacific Northwest walls. Explore 50 top American dive sites coast to coast.
Planning a liveaboard scuba diving vacation? Read our inside travel guide on the Belize Sun Dancer II, and plan your next dive destination today!
Shore diving can be the ultimate do-it-yourself adventure. Here are eight of the most extreme shore dives on the planet. Are you up to the challenge?
It’s no surprise the waters off Long Island, N.Y., harbor centuries’ worth of shipwrecks for scuba divers — but what gathers among them is.