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Bluespotted ribbontail ray on coral reef

By Charlotte
On: 10th January, 2024

Your Dive Calendar Part 2

  • French Polynesia
  • Mexico
  • The Azores
  • Indonesia
  • Philippines
  • Bonaire
  • Seychelles
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Tanzania
  • Palau
  • Turks & Caicos
  • Egypt

Part two of our dive calendar starts smack bang in midsummer. A time during which the UK does its best to produce temperatures that remotely resemble the season and everyone else tallies up their remaining annual leave and heads somewhere well versed in summer sun. If this sounds like you,…

Divers on the surface
Scuba diver

By Guest blogger
On: 6th November, 2023

World's Best Easy Diving Destinations

  • Bonaire
  • Indonesia
  • Gozo
  • Grenada
  • Egypt
  • Tanzania
  • Maldives

No two dives are ever the same. Some dives may involve strong currents and limited visibility, while others offer swimming-pool-like conditions. Some destinations are prone to wind and big waves, while others have seas as still as glass. What may be a perfect dive one day might present…

Sea Lion
Scuba diver

By Guest blogger
On: 23rd June, 2023

Top Ten Marine Protected Areas in the World

  • Galapagos Archipelago
  • Raja Ampat
  • Palau
  • Cocos Island
  • Maldives
  • Philippines
  • French Polynesia
  • Mexico
  • Bonaire
  • Fiji

Marine Protected Areas are a beacon of hope in the wild west of the high seas. Safeguarding marine ecosystems from ever-looming human threats (think: overfishing, habitat destruction and pollution), is critical to the long-term sustainability of our oceans. Unsurprisingly, they also have…

pgmy seahorse

By Rich Reardon
On: 15th November, 2022

The Best Shore Diving in the World

  • Gozo
  • Bonaire
  • Bali
  • Maldives
  • Dumaguete and Dauin
  • Iceland

The more remote the dive site, the better the diving, right? Wrong. Or at least that's not always the case... There are some locations in the world where you can swim alongside turtles and sharks a few fin-kicks from the shore or enjoy a dawn dive on a World War II wreck within minutes of…

Sharks in the Bahamas
Scuba diver

By Guest blogger
On: 29th July, 2022

Top Ten Spots for The Best Diving in the Caribbean

  • Bonaire
  • Bahamas
  • Turks & Caicos
  • British Virgin Islands
  • Grenada
  • Cayman Islands
  • Mexico
  • Belize

The Caribbean has long seduced divers looking for calm, warm waters, white sandy beaches and world-class dive sites. But with 7,000 islands and 13 countries to explore, where's best to go? That's where we come in. Our diving experts have explored the breadth of the archipelago and…

seahorse lembeh strait
Image of Jacqui Brooks

By Jacqui
On: 1st July, 2019

Top 20 Underwater Photographers: Part I

  • Baja California
  • Northern Sulawesi
  • Cayman Islands
  • Bonaire
  • Bohol

Snapshots of time, passports to other worlds and instruments for change, photography is the most powerful tool. We might be biased, but underwater photography truly trumps on the nature scale; it allows us to explore the ocean's greatest (and still largely undiscovered) depths, celebrate its…

Image of Jacqui Brooks

By Jacqui
On: 12th September, 2018

Diving in the Caribbean

  • Bahamas
  • Dominica
  • Grenada
  • Bonaire
  • St Vincent & The Grenadines
  • British Virgin Islands

It's a strange quirk of fate, but the best diving in the Caribbean is almost exclusively in the more out of the way corners of the West Indies. So, much as we love Anguilla, Antigua, Barbados, Jamaica, St Lucia, St Barts and the rest of the big hitters, their diving just doesn't cut the…

Wakatobi house reef, Indonesia
Image of Jacqui Brooks

By Jacqui
On: 4th June, 2018

Top Nine Destinations for Shore Diving

  • Wakatobi
  • Northern Mozambique & Quirimbas Archipelago
  • Maldives
  • Dumaguete and Dauin
  • Bonaire
  • Gozo
  • Southern Red Sea
  • Fiji
  • Northern Sulawesi

They (read: we) say the best things in life are but a few fin kicks from the beach. And here at Original Diving, we believe there are some pretty marvellous sights to be seen in the shallows. From some of the world's most beautiful coral reefs to magnificent wrecks, marvellous macro critters…