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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.

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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
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
Manta in the Maldives (Shutterstock / Dive Worldwide)
Dive Worldwide flash sale on now
How we found a critter new to Cayman
How we found a critter new to Cayman
Whale sharks on collision course
Bonaire reef (See Buddy’s Dive Resort below)
Booking Now: 6 more dive-trips to consider
Sea hare (Steven Leroch)
Ustica: Sicily’s diving jewel
Scientists discover heat-tolerant corals hidden in plain sight
Scientists discover heat-tolerant corals hidden in plain sight
Max among ‘Hell’s Bells’, El Zapote
Hell’s bells and other Yucatan cave specials
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
Suiting up for one of the dives last August (Atlantic Wreck Salvage)
Divers track down 1850s ’hit-and-run’ wreck victim
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
Diving at Bawe Island in Zanzibar (The Cocoon Collection)
Booking Now: 6 ways to dive
AIMS diver assessing coral-bleaching on Scott Reef in 2016 (Nick Thake)
Overhead reef-sensing takes guesswork out of coral restoration
Bottlenose dolphin (Marine Connection)
Malta’s dolphin park: is it a zoo or a circus? 
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
Tiger shark in the Maldives (Vincent Kneefel / Ocean Image Bank)
Maldives’ longline plans put pro-shark reputation at risk 
Investigator is now Australia's dedicated ocean research vessel (CSIRO / Owen Foley)
Why are we finding so many Australian shipwrecks lately?
Strong female presence at TGI Maldives
Maldives resort wins women’s diving award
Dramatic view of Porto Santo (Ilhaviso Multimedia)
Booking Now: 8 dive-holiday ideas
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’
A ringneck blenny at Firestone Bay, Plymouth (Keith Hiscock, CC BY-ND)
5 ways to improve marine conservation around Britain
Ningaloo Marine Park in Australia is well-known for its thriving whale shark population (Mattia Valente)
Most marine-protection measures are not working
Raja Ampat Crown of Thorns Starfish Menace
Raja Ampat Crown of Thorns Starfish Menace
400 hours’ diving as bio-student stands up for tumorous turtles
Baby Wobbegong Sharks
Baby Wobbegong Sharks
Dive instructors aboard Kyalami Too offer advice, help and teach students about reef ecology
Corals happier in the Gulf Stream
Thresher shark in Malapascua
Tall tails of Malapascua
Stride entry at Nova Maldives
Booking Now: 6 wildlife dive-trip ideas
Nose of the Corsair F4U wreck
Vanuatu beyond the Coolidge

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