Our annual Top 100 Readers Choice Awards are based on your real-world dives, and they let us take that journey right along with you. Since 1994, we’ve been presenting our ­readers’ picks for the best diving in the world in our annual Top 100 Readers Choice Awards. It’s a feature that we love to put together, because we consider the results of our annual Top 100 survey a way for magazine readers, fans and online followers to share their most ­remarkable moments ­underwater. Below you'll find the winning destinations for the Best Freediving.

How the Winners are Chosen:

Thousands of Scuba ­Diving subscribers and online users rated their experiences at dive destinations in a ­variety of categories on a scale from 1 to 5. Final scores are an average of the numerical scores awarded. A minimum number of ­responses was required for a destination to be included in these ratings.

Here's the breakdown for top scorers in the freediving category:

Caribbean and Atlantic

1. Bahamas
2. Cayman Islands
3. Bonaire
4. Bay Islands
5. Belize

North America

1. Florida
2. California

Pacific and Indian Oceans

1. Hawaii
2. French Polynesia
3. Australia
4. Indonesia
5. Philippines

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