The underwater world is a magnet for adrenaline junkies. There are few things more exciting than strapping on your oxygen tank, plunging off the side of a dive boat, and sinking into the ocean’s deep blue depths. It's a total rush to swim inside the eye of a school of menacing barracudas or float by a turtle that is even bigger than you.
The Red Sea, Egypt
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Hundreds of miles of coral, a wealth of sea life, and crystal-clear
waters earn
Egypt's Red Sea Coast recognition as one of the planet's
best dive destinations. The warm water, great visibility, and
availability of
excellent diving instructors make this a good spot to learn how
to dive.
Turks and Caicos, Caribbean
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Turks and Caicos is an archipelago of 40 low-lying coral islands
in the Atlantic Ocean, south-east of the Bahamas. The island of
Providenciales, known as Provo, is home to expansive Grace Bay Beach,
with luxury resorts, shops and restaurants.
Scuba-diving sites include a
14-mile barrier reef on Provo’s north shore and a dramatic 2,134m
underwater wall off Grand Turk island.
Kona Mantas — Hawaii, USA
It’s only appropriate that divers, come to see one of nature’s wonders,
kneel on the shallow bottom off Keahole Point, neoprene supplicants
pointing their dive lights up to attract plankton. The mantas glide in
from the darkness — some with wingspans of 16 feet — a phantasmagoric
morph of fish and bird, inhaling the plankton in great swooping arcs.
Nakwakto Rapids — British Columbia, Canada
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Few sites offer the possibility of waterskiing while being tied to tree.
It’s possible at Turret Rock, aka
Nakwakto Rapids, a legendary dive in
British Columbia’s backcountry, which boasts some of the world’s fastest
ocean currents, clocked at a blistering 16 knots. This is the realm of
giant gooseneck barnacles, an oversize crustacean found few other
places, which grow in mounds 30 to 50 feet deep here. Time the tides
with Swiss precision — the safety window between tidal exchanges lasts
15 to 30 minutes. Sharing real estate with the barnacles are sure-footed
crabs, painted greenlings, sculpins and a colorful palette of anemones.
Thailand
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| Image Source: Mu Koh Similan National Marine Park, Thailand |
Visibility is exceptional, and encounters with whale sharks are not
uncommon in the waters around Thailand's spectacularly scenic islands. Mu Koh Similan National Marine Park is an underwater
playground where you'll find coral in every color and rare marine
creatures.
Florida Keys
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The continental United States' only living coral barrier reef stretches 5
miles offshore of
the Florida Keys and is a teeming backbone of marine
life, ranging from brilliant corals to neon-colored fish. You can
explore coral-encrusted shipwrecks, some historic, others sunk by design
to attract divers and provide protection for marine life.
Isla Mujeres, Mexico
If there’s a way to experience more joy in the water with only a
snorkel, we don’t know about it. Every June to September, the waters off
Isla Mujeres churn with the fins from hundreds of whale sharks,
migrating up the Yucatan coast in search of food (not you).
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