Dive destinations, wrecks and trip planning.
RSS feed: Scubaspot blogA passenger steamer lost with at least 122 people in 1911, missing for 47 years, and now a 109-metre reef standing alone on a sand plain. The Yongala is a dive about life as much as loss.
Read more: The Yongala: a ship that vanished, and the reef it becameThree small islands, one drowned mountain, and sides that fall away almost vertically within a few hundred metres of shore. If you have never dived a wall, this is where to start.
Read more: Cayman Islands diving: the wall starts a few hundred metres from the beachTrucks in the holds, motorcycles stacked on top of them, a steam locomotive lying in the sand. The Thistlegorm is the wreck that turns people into wreck divers. Here is why, and what you will see.
Read more: Why every diver ends up at the Thistlegorm eventuallyOnly one percent of the Maldives is land. The rest is reef, channel and open Indian Ocean, which is where the mantas, whale sharks and hammerheads come from. A guide to how the diving works, and how to plan it.
Read more: Diving in the Maldives: a country that is almost all water
