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Person swimming over reef in Zanzibar.

By Emily C
On: 20th August, 2025

Best Diving in Zanzibar

  • Zanzibar

Perhaps the best known of Tanzania's Spice Islands, Zanzibar isn't just about white-sand beaches and lush greenery - it offers some pretty fantastic diving. Best visited between mid-February and April or October to mid-December, the island offers bath-warm waters and crystalline visibility,…

Colourful coral garden

By Emily C
On: 9th June, 2025

Our Favourite Coral Gardens

  • Malta
  • Cayman Islands
  • Tanzania
  • Fiji
  • Indonesia

Keen to dive amid colourful corals and swaying seagrass? Your wish is our command. With the help of our diving experts, we've put together a list of our favourite coral gardens. From Little Cayman's underwater meadows to Fiji's cabbage-shaped corals, these complex ecosystems are brimming…

By Emily C
On: 3rd June, 2025

Top Islands in Tanzania

  • Tanzania

While its safaris are superb, Tanzania has a whole world waiting beyond its shores. From the palm-lined Zanzibar to the mini Mnemba, islands in Tanzania promise beachside bliss and some of the best diving in the Indian Ocean (swimming with whale sharks, anyone?). If you can't decide where to…

Coral underwater in French Polynesia

By Emily C
On: 14th May, 2025

Inspired by Attenborough: Ocean Conservation

  • Indonesia
  • Philippines
  • Bora Bora
  • Mafia Island
  • Maldives

Our Co-Founder Tom Barber was at the premiere of Sir David's latest (and last) documentary, Ocean, and had this to say. 'As so often with Attenborough's wildlife and conservation films, Ocean can make for uncomfortable - and even at times distressing - viewing, but there is always an…

High angle shot of the small lush islands of Indonesia

By Charlotte
On: 22nd April, 2024

The World's Best Island-Hopping Itineraries

  • Bahamas
  • Indonesia
  • French Polynesia
  • Philippines
  • Tanzania

The world is big and the glorious challenge us travellers have is how to explore as much of it as possible with the limited holiday days you have each year. That's why we have created our list of the world's best island-hopping itineraries for the time poor, adventure-seeking dive addicts.

Underwater photography of tropical reef species in Papua New Guinea

By Charlotte
On: 8th April, 2024

The World’s Best Scuba Diving Sites

  • Mexico
  • Raja Ampat
  • Philippines
  • Fiji
  • Ecuador & the Galapagos
  • Micronesia
  • Maldives
  • Tanzania
  • Komodo

The ocean is just one gigantic blue playground with over 4,000 current dive sites. We're sure that you'd love to tick off every destination, but just in case you don't have that much time on your fins, we've compiled a list of the world's best diving. From sharks to shrimp, reefs to walls,…

Sunset over the waters with thatched roof villas

By Charlotte
On: 29th January, 2024

Top Destinations for your Valentine (Divertine)

  • Tanzania
  • Maldives
  • Indonesia
  • Caribbean
  • Chuuk Lagoon

Do you show your love by creating elaborate patterns in the sand like the male Japanese puffer fish or opt for an eight-hour-long dancing ritual to court the one that you fancy like a seahorse? Perhaps, like us, you would rather witness these events happening with your special diving buddy.…

Overhead of snorkeller on the reef
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By Rachel
On: 25th January, 2024

Blue Horizons - Ten Holidays for Waterculturalists

  • Indonesia
  • Philippines
  • Tanzania
  • Mozambique
  • French Polynesia
  • Fiji
  • Maldives

In the face of mounting challenges posed to our reefs and seas, divers have long been at the forefront of efforts to protect, preserve, and understand the issues affecting our beloved underwater ecosystems. The inclination to actively engage in local programs and initiatives while exploring…

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,…

Diver with turtle

By Guest Blogger
On: 7th December, 2023

World's Best Diving and Dining Destinations

  • Maldives
  • Indonesia
  • Mexico
  • The Azores
  • Tanzania

Often surface from a dive ravenous? Fear not, you're not alone. Don't be fooled by the leisurely fin-kicks of divers, the weightlessness of this sport can push your body to its limits, working up a substantial appetite. Call us biased, but the icing on the cake after a day spent diving is a…