Manado, in North Sulawesi Indonesia, has emerged as a world-class macro diving destination. The shallow house reefs of Bunaken Marine Park contain some of the highest concentrations of small, rare, and unusual creatures found anywhere on the planet. What is…
Palau’s legendary wall dives represent the pinnacle of drift diving. Vertical underwater cliffs plunge from 5-metre depths to 600 metres or deeper, creating dramatic encounters with pelagic life and strong currents that demand skill and respect. The Blue Corner Palau’s…
The boat from Rosslyn Bay to Great Keppel Island takes 30 minutes and deposits you on a beach that looks more like the Caribbean than most people’s mental image of Queensland. White sand, turquoise water, fringing reef visible from the…
Heron Island has a quality that’s difficult to articulate and impossible to photograph adequately: the coral begins at the waterline. Not 500 metres offshore, not after a boat ride to a pontoon, not at the end of a swim through…
Port Douglas sits an hour north of Cairns on the Cook Highway, and the drive – along a road cut into the side of a hill with the Coral Sea below and rainforest above – is one of the better…
The first time a potato cod approaches you underwater, your instinct is to back away. It’s not that they’re aggressive – they’re famously placid. It’s that they’re the size of a labrador retriever, they move with unhurried confidence, and they’re…
There are wrecks you dive because they’re historically significant, and there are wrecks you dive because the marine life is extraordinary. The SS Yongala is one of the very few in the world that earns both labels simultaneously – and…
The Coral Sea sits off Australia’s northeast coast, and it’s one of those places where the ocean floor drops away so suddenly that you feel the shift in your chest before the depth gauge even registers it. Most travelers who…
The southern Great Barrier Reef — Lady Elliot's mantas, Heron Island's turtles, the wild Swain Reefs — is the part of the reef the brochures forget to mention.
The Whitsundays are famous for sailing. The diving — from Bait Reef's sharks to Hook Island's muck — deserves equal billing.