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Triton Bay Deep Dive: Soft Coral Gardens, Whale Sharks and Endemics in West Papua
Triton Bay in West Papua pairs the richest soft coral gardens in Indonesia with whale shark encounters and species found nowhere else on Earth.
Cenderawasih Bay: Diving With Whale Sharks Beneath the Bagans
In a remote bay in West Papua, the world's largest fish crowd around fishing platforms in one of the ocean's most reliable whale shark encounters.
Chagos Archipelago: Diving One of the Planet's Most Pristine Reef Reserves
Far from any coastline, the Chagos atolls shelter reefs so intact that scientists treat them as a living baseline for the tropical ocean.
Daedalus Reef: Hammerheads Around the Loneliest Lighthouse in the Red Sea
Far offshore in the Egyptian Red Sea, Daedalus Reef rewards liveaboard divers with schooling hammerheads, plunging walls and a lighthouse in the middle of nowhere.
Read more →The Brothers Islands: Sharks, Sheer Walls and Century-Old Wrecks in the Egyptian Red Sea
Far off the Egyptian coast, two tiny islands drop into the blue with historic wrecks, forests of soft coral and some of the Red Sea's most reliable shark encounters.
Read more →Tulamben and the USAT Liberty: Diving Bali's Legendary Shore-Access Wreck
The USAT Liberty at Tulamben is that rare thing - a genuine WWII shipwreck you can reach with a short swim from a black pebble beach in northeast Bali.
Read more →Nusa Penida Deep Dive: Manta Stations and the Mola Season
How the reefs of Nusa Penida bring reef mantas to cleaning stations year round and pull mola mola up from the deep each cool season.
Read more →Apo Island: The Little Reef That Taught the Philippines to Protect Its Own
A fishing community off Negros set aside its own reef decades ago, and the recovery it triggered still guides marine protection across the Philippines.
Read more →Apo Reef: Diving the Philippines' Great Coral Wilderness
A guide to Apo Reef Natural Park, the vast Philippine coral system where lagoons, sharks and sheer walls meet in the Mindoro Strait.
Read more →The Blue Hole of Dahab: Inside the Red Sea's Most Notorious Dive Site
A deep look at Dahab's Blue Hole - the geology, the infamous Arch, the safe ways to dive it, and the reef life thriving on its rim.
Read more →Misool: How a Shark Camp Became Raja Ampat's Greatest Comeback
The story of southern Raja Ampat's Misool reserve, where community-led protection rebuilt a reef the world had nearly written off.
Read more →Tubbataha Reefs: Diving the Remote Atolls of the Sulu Sea
Far out in the Sulu Sea, the atolls of Tubbataha reward those who make the overnight crossing with sharks, steep walls and some of the healthiest coral in the Philippines.
Read more →Komodo's Nutrient-Rich Reefs: Where Currents Feed the Mantas
A closer look at the currents, upwelling and coral life that make Komodo National Park one of the great manta destinations of the Coral Triangle.
Read more →Palau's Reefs: A Deep Dive into Rock Islands, Blue Corner and Jellyfish Lake
Palau packs UNESCO-listed limestone islands, drift dives and a lake full of stingless jellyfish into one small Pacific archipelago.
Read more →Great Barrier Reef: a deep dive
The world's largest coral reef system runs 2,300 km along Queensland. Here is how it formed, how it is faring, and how to actually experience it.
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