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World Dives

Journey beneath the waves with World Dives, where we spotlight the most extraordinary dive sites from across the globe.

Experience the vibrant coral reefs of the Pacific, the haunting shipwrecks of the Atlantic, and everything in between. With firsthand accounts, stunning visuals, and insider tips, we aim to inspire and guide your next underwater adventure.

Sting ray in cave

Noronha: An Atlantic diving hotspot

Divernet January 21, 2025

Dancing camel shrimp and urchin in Pemuteran

Muck-diving in Pemuteran

Divernet January 16, 2025

If you’re into wall diving

Wakatobi’s Wall to Wall Paradise

Walt Stearns January 14, 2025

Selcuk Kolay over the aft deck of the Kalioub (Kaya Yarar)

Heroes, a villain and a shipwreck-quest miracle

Divernet January 9, 2025

Getting the Big Picture at Wakatobi

Walt Stearns January 7, 2025

Magical Ningaloo Reef

Magical Ningaloo Reef

Divernet January 6, 2025

Top 5 Dive Site of Uepi Island

Top 5 Dive Site of Uepi Island

Adrian Stacy December 30, 2024

Southern right whales (Olga Ernst)

Whales can live way longer than scientists thought

Divernet December 29, 2024

Red and black anemonefish (Amphiprion melanopus) at Labyrinthe

Diving Lifou, a fossil atoll

Divernet December 25, 2024

Scuba Scene

Join Scuba Scene in early 2025 and save £££s

Mark Evans December 18, 2024

Shipwreck (Kevin C Charpentier / Pexels)

Polluting shipwrecks are the ticking time-bomb

Steve Weinman December 16, 2024

Alexey Molchanov in Freediver (Paramount Pictures)

20 minutes with the world’s greatest freediver

Steve Weinman December 14, 2024

Whale shark encounter (Aggressor Adventures)

Komodo Aggressor sets sail from May – with discounts

Steve Weinman December 12, 2024

Wakatobi Dunia Baru|Pajama cardinalfish|Wakatobi Dunia Baru|Shrimp Gobie and Shrimp

Wakatobi’s Dunia Baru

Walt Stearns December 10, 2024

Humpback whales and ship in marine sanctuary (Green Fire Productions)

New maps show high-risk zones for whale-ship collisions

Divernet December 7, 2024

Getting Trigger Happy at Wakatobi|Clown Triggerfish at Wakatobi

Getting Trigger Happy at Wakatobi

Walt Stearns December 3, 2024

Alexey Molchanov does it again (Paramount Pictures)

Freediver: Deeper into Molchanov’s world

Steve Weinman December 2, 2024

Turkey Beach

Wakatobi’s Turkey Beach – Dive Site #1

Walt Stearns November 27, 2024

Purple hairy squat lobster (Lauriea siagiani)|Diving the wall at Wakatobi|||||||||||||||||

Wakatobi’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Walt Stearns November 26, 2024

Wakatobi's Dive Yacht Pelagian cruising past the resort.|Pelagian Dive Yacht|Pelagian master suite stateroom (top)

Wakatobi’s Dive Yacht Pelagian

Walt Stearns November 20, 2024

Wakatobi Dive Resort dive boat.|||Wakatobi Dive Resort||Dining by sea at Wakatobi|Wakatobi dive boats|Pelagic dive yacht|mandarinfish|||||Wakatobi's Dive Yacht Pelagian cruising past the resort.

Wakatobi’s Double Dip Diving Experience

Walt Stearns November 19, 2024

A blenny uses the natural protection of a sponge

Long weekend diving the Dominican Republic

Divernet November 16, 2024

Coral seascape in Kimbe Bay (IUCN Picture Library / Pietro Formis)

44% of reef-building corals now at risk

Steve Weinman November 15, 2024

A diver swims alongside the world’s largest coral colony in the Solomon Islands (Manu San Félix / National Geographic Pristine Seas)

World’s biggest coral discovered in Solomons

Steve Weinman November 14, 2024

Green turtle on plate coral, Siaba Besar

Flores, gateway to Komodo

Divernet November 9, 2024

Tiger shark at Fuvahmulah

Diving solo with the sharks of Tiger Harbour

Divernet November 4, 2024

Wakatobi Dive Resort's fan favorite dive site Zoo.

Let’s Go to The Zoo

Walt Stearns October 31, 2024

The authors working in their ‘coral nursery’ in the Pacific (Liam Lachs)

‘We’ve bred corals to better tolerate lethal heatwaves’

Divernet October 31, 2024

What happened to the Seaduction?

Divernet October 30, 2024

Divers working on the Carriacou installation (Jason deCaires Taylor)

Hurricane delayed diver’s climatic artificial reef

Steve Weinman October 28, 2024

Kostas Thoctarides’ ROVs in action on an aircraft wreck (Kostas Thoctarides)

A deep dive with Kostas Thoctarides

Steve Weinman October 25, 2024

The Portuguese man o' war (Physalia physalis) or bluebottle is a marine hydrozoan found in the Atlantic and has numerous microscopic venomous cnidocytes that deliver a painful sting powerful enough to kill fish and even, in some cases, humans. It is not a jellyfish but a siphonophore, made up of many smaller units called zooids but operating as a single individual (Manu San Félix / National Geographic Pristine Seas)

Azores declares Europe’s biggest MPA network

Steve Weinman October 23, 2024

Several of Wakatobi’s dive guides assisting the resort’s new in-house marine biologist Julia Mellers in collecting water samples around varies dive sites where hard corals are particularly robust for DNA and chemical analyst. - Photo by Kristian Gaeckle|Wakatobi Dive Resort’s new in-house marine biologist Julia Mellers. Photo by|Wakatobi Dive Resort’s new in-house marine biologist Julia Mellers working with water samples collected during a recent dive.||Wakatobi Dive Resort’s new in-house marine biologist Julia Mellers on a dive on one of Wakatobi’s magnificent reefs. Photo by Adrienne Gittus|A few of Wakatobi’s dive guides who are now assisting Julia Mellers in her coral research at the resort posing with water samples collected on one of Wakatobi’s reefs where hard corals are particularly robust that will be used for DNA and chemical analyst. Photo by Adrienne Gittus

Wakatobi Expands Coral Reef Protection

Walt Stearns October 22, 2024

Manta in the Maldives (Shutterstock / Dive Worldwide)

Dive Worldwide flash sale on now

Steve Weinman October 19, 2024

How we found a critter new to Cayman

Divernet October 15, 2024

Whale sharks on collision course

Divernet October 12, 2024

Bonaire reef (See Buddy’s Dive Resort below)

Booking Now: 6 more dive-trips to consider

Steve Weinman October 8, 2024

Sea hare (Steven Leroch)

Ustica: Sicily’s diving jewel

Divernet October 5, 2024

Scientists discover heat-tolerant corals hidden in plain sight

Scientists discover heat-tolerant corals hidden in plain sight

Divernet October 4, 2024

Max among ‘Hell’s Bells’, El Zapote

Hell’s bells and other Yucatan cave specials

Divernet September 29, 2024

A diver performs photogrammetry over the reef, using two GoPro Hero 10 cameras mounted 60cm apart on a horizontal bar. The cameras faced the substrate at a perpendicular angle and were set to time-lapse mode (0.5sec intervals) with a wide-angle setting at 5.3K resolution

Our digital 3D models could help revive huge coral reefs

Divernet September 25, 2024

Suiting up for one of the dives last August (Atlantic Wreck Salvage)

Divers track down 1850s ’hit-and-run’ wreck victim

Steve Weinman September 14, 2024

Small female Blanket Octopus found during a blackwater dive off Palm Beach Florida.|Some of the rarer visitors from the deep one might find during a blackwater dive off Palm Beach Florida include ornate oddities like this juvenile ribbonfish. This one is just a baby with a body length less than 2-inches.|The lighted surface buoy aka the “Pumpkin” ready for deployment for the backwater dive off Palm Beach Florida.||Small grouping of juvenile Spotfin Flying Fish hanging close to the water's surface.|Lavel Spotfin Flounder. During their larval state

Palm Beach Blackwater Diving

Walt Stearns August 28, 2024

Diving at Bawe Island in Zanzibar (The Cocoon Collection)

Booking Now: 6 ways to dive

Steve Weinman August 25, 2024

AIMS diver assessing coral-bleaching on Scott Reef in 2016 (Nick Thake)

Overhead reef-sensing takes guesswork out of coral restoration

Steve Weinman August 24, 2024

Bottlenose dolphin (Marine Connection)

Malta’s dolphin park: is it a zoo or a circus?

Steve Weinman August 20, 2024

Scientists taking a sample from the massive boulder coral in Fiji back in 1998 (Joel Orempuller / IRD)

600-year-old coral reveals Pacific changes since 1370

Divernet August 18, 2024

Tiger shark in the Maldives (Vincent Kneefel / Ocean Image Bank)

Maldives’ longline plans put pro-shark reputation at risk

Steve Weinman August 16, 2024

Investigator is now Australia's dedicated ocean research vessel (CSIRO / Owen Foley)

Why are we finding so many Australian shipwrecks lately?

Divernet August 1, 2024

Strong female presence at TGI Maldives

Maldives resort wins women’s diving award

Steve Weinman July 23, 2024

Dramatic view of Porto Santo (Ilhaviso Multimedia)

Booking Now: 8 dive-holiday ideas

Steve Weinman July 20, 2024

Isabel Key spent time snorkelling to monitor seagrass meadows on the Isle of Skye, among other locations on the west coast of Scotland (Isabel Key, CC BY-ND)

‘I’ve been listening to seagrass meadows’

Divernet July 10, 2024

A ringneck blenny at Firestone Bay, Plymouth (Keith Hiscock, CC BY-ND)

5 ways to improve marine conservation around Britain

Divernet July 1, 2024

Ningaloo Marine Park in Australia is well-known for its thriving whale shark population (Mattia Valente)

Most marine-protection measures are not working

Divernet June 28, 2024

Raja Ampat Crown of Thorns Starfish Menace

Raja Ampat Crown of Thorns Starfish Menace

Adrian Stacy June 28, 2024

400 hours’ diving as bio-student stands up for tumorous turtles

Steve Weinman June 23, 2024

Baby Wobbegong Sharks

Baby Wobbegong Sharks

Adrian Stacy June 21, 2024

Dive instructors aboard Kyalami Too offer advice, help and teach students about reef ecology

Corals happier in the Gulf Stream

Divernet June 17, 2024

Thresher shark in Malapascua

Tall tails of Malapascua

Divernet May 30, 2024

Stride entry at Nova Maldives

Booking Now: 6 wildlife dive-trip ideas

Steve Weinman May 29, 2024

Nose of the Corsair F4U wreck

Vanuatu beyond the Coolidge

Divernet May 26, 2024

Hanse Explorer (EYOS Expeditions)

Charter your own EYOS expedition – in Melanesia

Steve Weinman May 23, 2024

Matthew Floyd has spent more than three years studying the drivers of seagrass habitat expansion in the Maldives

Seagrass thrives near inhabited Maldives islands – here’s why

Divernet May 21, 2024

A lonely deadeye

River Leven: The barque off Dungeness

Divernet May 17, 2024

A Fishy Friendship in Raja Ampat

Raja Ampat Fun Facts

Adrian Stacy May 16, 2024

8-Park, Eva

Fangs a lot: Deep wonders through teen eyes

Steve Weinman May 14, 2024

Richard Thompson realised that mechanical degradation of large, visible plastics fragments resulted in microplastics accumulating in the environment (University of Plymouth, CC BY-ND)

‘Everywhere we looked, we found evidence’

Divernet May 11, 2024

Local Guide to Raja Ampat Dive Sites Manta Sandy

Local Guide to Raja Ampat Dive Sites Manta Sandy

Adrian Stacy May 9, 2024

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