Dive destinations, wrecks and trip planning.
RSS feed: Scubaspot blogColombia's largest island is a flat little strip of coral 750 km from the mainland, ringed by reef and surrounded by one of the largest marine protected areas in the Caribbean. Here's what the diving week actually looks like.
Read more: San Andrés: A Coral Island in the Middle of the Seaflower ReserveCape Town gives you two very different coastlines within an hour of each other, more than 300 recorded dive sites, and granite reefs shaped by ice ages. Here is how the region fits together, and when the sea behaves.
Read more: Diving the Cape Peninsula and False Bay: Two Coastlines, 300-Plus SitesTwo wrecks carry Aruba's reputation: the SS Antilla and the SS Pedernales. Add water that never drops far below 26°C and hotel pickups from the dive shop, and you have an island that makes diving easy to fit into a week.
Read more: Diving in Aruba: Wrecks, Warm Water and Short Boat RidesEight square kilometres of limestone, mangroves and white sand, a 30-minute boat ride from Sanur. The reefs around Lembongan and Nusa Penida hold 247 species of coral and 562 species of reef fish.
Read more: Nusa Lembongan: Reef Diving 30 Minutes From BaliUninhabited since 1939, ringed by the sandstone ledges of the Noup, and circled by gannets, seals and harbour porpoises. Noss is the kind of small island that makes a Shetland trip feel worth the journey north.
Read more: Isle of Noss: Shetland's Seabird Island, Seen From the Water
