Diving

The Zenobia — a 172-metre ferry that sank in 1980, regularly rated a top-five wreck dive.

World-class reef diving you walk into from the beach.

Warm, clear, shallow Mediterranean entered by walking off a rock ledge, with Comino's Blue Lagoon as the day off.

Ten days on a liveaboard in West Papua, over reefs holding more coral species than anywhere else measured.

Diving the scuttled German High Seas Fleet — battleships resting at forty-five metres.

Five days on Japan's westernmost island, where hammerhead sharks school in the cold months and the current does not forgive.

A week chasing the largest marine feeding event on earth along South Africa's Wild Coast.

The clearest water in Spain, over the Mar de las Calmas volcanic reserve.

The Med's best-known dive reserve, tunnels and grouper off the Costa Brava.

The best wreck-and-reef diving on the Spanish Mediterranean.

Warm, clear Atlantic diving and an underwater sculpture museum.

Diving the clearest water in the Mediterranean, inside a national park.

Gran Canaria's best shore diving — volcanic arches and swim-throughs off Arinaga.

Three pinnacles rising from the deep off Llafranc, the best dive of the Costa Brava.

Spain's oldest marine reserve off Alicante, clear water and grouper that come to you.

A flooded quarry with sunken machinery and a drowned forest, the best-known inland dive in Poland.

Diving the deepest lake in Poland, a clear, cold glacial lake plunging to 108 m.

The famous manta ray night dive, where mantas swoop through the lights a few metres from your mask.

Diving through giant kelp forests with sea lions and garibaldi off the islands of Channel Islands National Park.

Coral reefs and big artificial wrecks along the only living coral barrier reef in the continental United States.

Remote reefs and wrecks around a brick fort, 110 km west of Key West in a national park reached only by boat or seaplane.

Shore dives to the Cane Bay Wall, a reef that drops thousands of metres a short swim from the beach.

Two shipwrecks from two world wars lying side by side on the bottom of the harbour, and the Blue Hole shaft.

Strýtan — a 55 m geothermal chimney rising from the fjord floor, the only divable one on earth.