Each year, we ask the most knowledgeable and well-traveled group of divers we know--our readers--to rate their favorite destinations as part of our ongoing Top 100 Readers' Choice survey. Throughout the past 12 months we invited readers to fill out surveys on the destination they experienced. The surveys that are the basis of this report ask divers to rate the quality of the dive experience in several categories--ranging from health of the reef to their overall impression of the diving--using a 1-to-5 scale (5=excellent; 4=very good; 3=good; 2=fair; 1=poor). For this report, we take the destinations that received a statistically valid number of surveys and rank them in order by the percentage of Excellent and Very Good ratings. We couldn't fit the results for Advanced Diving in the magazine so we've included them here. After you read these results, we hope you'll take the time to help us compile the next Top 100 report. Our Top 100 survey is available to you 24/7, 365 days of the year at scubadiving.com/top_100. Fill it out after your next dive trip or for one you've taken in the last three years.

Top Destinations For Advanced Diving

Caribbean & Atlantic Ocean

|||| |---|---|---| | 1.| Little Cayman, Cayman Islands| 94.6| | 2.| Southern Belize (Hopkins, Dangriga, Placencia & Punta Gorda)| 94.4| | 3.| Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands| 92.4| | 4.| Cozumel, Mexico| 91.7| | 5.| Saba| 91.2| | 6.| Exumas, Bahamas| 90.9| | 7.| Bonaire| 90.3| | 8.| Grand Turk, Turks & Caicos| 89.7| | 9.| Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras| 86.8| | 10.| Belize Atolls| 86.6| | 11.| Ambergris Caye, Belize| 86.3| | 12.| Curaçao| 85.1| | 13.| Providenciales, Turks & Caicos| 83.8| | 14.| Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands| 83.6| | 15.| Bahamas Out Islands| 81.8| | 16.| Southern Eastern Caribbean (Tobago, Grenada & St. Vincent & Grenadines)| 78.1| | 17.| Bimini & Cat Cay, Bahamas| 77.4| | 18.| Dominica| 73.5| | 19.| Barbados| 72.4| | 20.| Puerto Rico| 71.4| | (tie)| St. Croix, U.S.V.I.s| 71.4| | 21.| Northern Eastern Caribbean (Statia, St. Kitts, Guadeloupe & Antigua & Barbuda)| 71| | 22.| British Virgin Islands| 70| | (tie)| St. Thomas & St. John, U.S.V.I.s| 70| | 23.| Riviera Maya, Mexico| 69.8| | 24.| St. Lucia| 69.6| | 25.| Providenciales, Turks & Caicos| 65.6|

Pacific & Indian Oceans

|||| |---|---|---| | 1.| Galapagos| 100| | (tie)| Palau| 100| | (tie)| Yap, Micronesia| 100| | 2.| Wakatobi, Indonesia| 96.6| | 3.| Philippines| 96.4| | 4.| Chuuk, Micronesia| 95.7| | 5.| Malaysia| 93.9| | 6.| North Sulawesi & Lembeh Strait, Indonesia| 92.7| | 7.| Bali & Komodo, Indonesia| 91.1| | 8.| Great Barrier Reef, Australia| 90.6| | 9.| Red Sea (Egypt)| 88.5| | 10.| Tahiti & Its Islands| 88.1| | 11.| Fiji| 88| | 12.| Papua New Guinea| 87.5| | 13.| Baja California & Socorro Islands| 87.2| | 14.| Thailand| 85| | 15.| Maui, Hawaii| 81.1| | 16.| Costa Rica & Cocos Island| 80.6| | 17.| Kaui, Hawaii| 77.1| | 18.| Big Island, Hawaii| 73.6|

North America

|||| |---|---|---| | 1.| British Columbia, Canada| 96.4| | 2.| North Carolina| 92| | 3.| Monterey, Calif.| 90.6| | 4.| Great Lakes| 88.9| | 5.| Key Largo, Fla. Keys| 85.2| | 6.| Florida Springs| 82.5| | 7.| Channel Islands, Calif.| 82.1| | 8.| North Atlantic (N.Y., N.J., Mass. & R.I.)| 80.8| | 9.| Islamorada & Tavernier, Fla. Keys| 80| | 10.| Marathon, Fla. Keys| 76|