From California's kelp forests and the walls of the Northwest to Florida's clear springs, the Midwest's shipwreck graveyards and Texas' Flower Gardens, we give you the best of our home region.

Check out some of our favorite purpose-sunk wrecks — they're just as good, and maybe even better, than the real thing.

200 years is the estimated age of the record-breaking shortraker rockfish.

Scuba diving California's best artificial reef — Eureka oil platform — combines the rugged steel of oil rigs with an abundance of marine life.

American divers are the luckiest on the planet. Our fair country boasts some of the best dive sites in the world.

Diving a Titan I missile silo in Washington transports a scuba diver back to 1965.

Twenty-five reasons why we love diving in the good old U.S. of A.

When marine creatures converge for the sake of their species, the results can be a kaleidoscope of a dive.

San Diego is one of the finest dive cities in the United States. Unparalleled variety awaits in the rich kelp forests, expansive wrecks and unique canyons, where sea lions, torpedo rays and coral gardens await.