Looking for your next big-animal encounter? Check out the winners from around the globe of Scuba Diving's Top 100 Readers Choice Awards for Best Big Animals.

Artist Jason de Caires Taylor's 60-ton concrete sculpture "Ocean Atlas" was sunk off the shallow coast of the Bahamas earlier this year. Watch the video!

Destinations highlighted this year in Scuba Diving's Top 100 Spotlight include: Raja Ampat, Bahamas, Maui, Palau and Grand Cayman.

You’re riding Wax Cay Cut after making a negative entry into rollicking current. The only certainty on this dive is the speed — up to 2 knots — and the thrill.

Looking for your next shark dive to get ready for Shark Week? Diving with great hammerheads in Bimini, Bahamas, is the newest, hottest shark aggregation.

You join the divers perched on the entry deck, a mere six feet from the turbid ocean, frothing in the boat’s wake, and the divemaster counts down from 10.

Many of the world's hottest shark scuba diving spots also offer can't-miss topside thrills to keep your heart rate up between dives.

This island nation claimed No. 1 wins in our 2014 Top 100 Readers Choice Awards for Best Overall Diving, Best Big Animals and Best Advanced Diving.

What diver would pass up the chance to experience a shark feed in the gin-clear waters of the Bahamas’ Exuma Cays with a 90-foot-long intact wreck as a stage?