Dive destinations, wrecks and trip planning.
RSS feed: Scubaspot blogShe was called unsinkable. A late-season hurricane threw her onto Black Rock Point in 1867 and broke her in two. What is left is open, coral-covered and full of life, with a lucky porthole and a legend about a spoon.
Read more: The Rhone: a hurricane, a teaspoon and the best swim-through in the CaribbeanCheap flights, clear water and a seabed full of history. Malta is where European divers go to see wrecks without crossing an ocean. Here is what is down there, and where to base yourself.
Read more: Diving in Malta: a wreck for every weekendA 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 eventually
