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Understanding Dive Conditions Forecasting
If you're going to be a serious diver, you've got to learn to read the ocean. Understanding dive conditions isn't just s...
Drysuit vs BCD: The Critical Difference in Buoyancy Control
This mistake happens way too often in cold water diving: divers using their drysuit as their primary buoyancy device. It...
The Ultimate Guide to Dive Weights
Let's be honest – nothing ruins a dive faster than floating to the surface like a runaway balloon or struggling against ...
Best Dive Sites in Monterey, California: A Diver's Guide
Monterey Bay is home to some of the most spectacular cold-water diving in North America. With water temperatures ranging...
Best Dive Sites in Laguna Beach, California: A Diver's Guide
Laguna Beach offers some of Southern California's most pristine and accessible dive sites. With water temperatures rangi...
Best Dive Sites in San Diego, California: A Diver's Guide
San Diego offers divers an incredible mix of accessible shore diving and world-class wreck diving. With water temperatur...
Best Dive Sites in Big Island, Hawaii: A Diver's Guide
The Big Island offers diving unlike anywhere else on Earth. The Kona coast's young volcanic geology creates dramatic und...
Best Dive Sites in Kauai, Hawaii: A Diver's Guide
Kauai is Hawaii's oldest inhabited island, and its diving reflects that maturity – established reefs, dramatic lava form...
Best Dive Sites in Cozumel, Mexico: A Diver's Guide
Cozumel is one of the world's top diving destinations, and for good reason. This Mexican Caribbean island offers crystal...
Best Dive Sites in Catalina Island, California: A Diver's Guide
Catalina Island feels like it belongs in the Caribbean, not 22 miles off the Los Angeles coast. The water is warmer, cle...
Best Dive Sites in Santa Barbara: A Diver's Guide
Santa Barbara sits at the intersection of cold northern waters and warmer southern currents, creating a unique mixing zo...
Best Dive Sites in Los Angeles: Urban Diving Gems
Most people don't associate Los Angeles with scuba diving, but the Palos Verdes Peninsula hides some of California's hea...
Best Dive Sites in Malibu: Rustic Coast Diving
Head north on PCH from Santa Monica and the coastline transforms. The urban sprawl gives way to rugged cliffs, empty bea...
Best Dive Sites in the Channel Islands: California's Galapagos
The Channel Islands are often called the 'Galapagos of North America' for good reason. Just a boat ride away from Ventur...
Best Dive Sites in San Luis Obispo: Central Coast Secrets
The San Luis Obispo coast sits in a transition zone where Southern California's warmer waters meet the cold, nutrient-ri...
Best Dive Sites in Malta, Gozo & Comino: A Diver's Guide
Malta is what happens when geology and history conspire in a diver's favour. The archipelago's soft golden limestone has...
Best Dive Sites in Croatia: A Diver's Guide to the Adriatic
Croatia is the wreck capital of the Mediterranean, and most divers still haven't figured that out. Two world wars, a cen...
Best Dive Sites on the Costa Brava, Spain: A Diver's Guide
The Costa Brava earned its name – the 'wild coast' – from the granite and limestone headlands that drop straight into th...
Best Dive Sites in the Canary Islands: A Diver's Guide
The Canary Islands sit at 28 degrees north, closer to the Sahara than to Spain, and they dive like nowhere else in Europ...
Best Dive Sites in the Azores, Portugal: A Diver's Guide
The Azores sit alone in the middle of the North Atlantic, nine volcanic islands scattered across 600 kilometers of open ...
Best Dive Sites in Madeira, Portugal: A Diver's Guide
Madeira rises straight out of the deep Atlantic, and its underwater terrain is exactly what you would expect from a volc...
Best Dive Sites in Crete, Greece: A Diver's Guide
Crete is Greece's largest island and arguably its most complete diving destination. The same limestone that built the Wh...
Best Dive Sites in Santorini & the Cyclades: A Diver's Guide
Strip away the sunset crowds and the beach clubs, and the Cyclades are one of the most geologically interesting places y...
Best Dive Sites in Sardinia, Italy: A Diver's Guide
Ask anyone who works in Mediterranean diving where the clearest water in Italy is and the conversation ends at Sardinia....
Best Dive Sites on the French Riviera: A Diver's Guide
Between the white limestone cliffs of the Calanques and the glitter of the Croisette, the coast of Provence and the Fren...