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The Best Scuba Destinations for Beginner Divers

You don't always need to venture into the depths to experience dazzling underwater spectacles and an array of marine life—these destinations prove that.

Readers Choice: World's Best Places to Go Scuba Diving in 2025

Find inspiration for your next big dive trip. These dive hotspots earned praise from our readers in this year's Reader Choice survey.

Best Destinations for Underwater Photography

We asked, and you told us. These are the three best hotspots—according to our readers—to dive if your top priority is stunning photo opportunities.

Best Destinations for Macro Diving

Lovers of the little will find no end to the pleasures found at these three destinations, voted best by Scuba Diving readers for their macro life.

Wakatobi Dive Resort

Discover exquisite underwater and topside beauty at your doorstep when you stay at this luxury resort

The Resort At Marble Hill

A slice of heaven—complete with all-inclusive diving—awaits in Roatan.

Pelagian Dive Yacht

This luxurious liveaboard takes divers to the mind-blowing dive sites of Indonesia’s famed Tukang Besi archipelago

Beqa Lagoon Resort, Fiji

Beqa Lagoon Resort won six awards in Scuba Diving’s 2025 Readers Choice awards.

Kona Honu Divers, Hawaii

Thousands of readers voted in Scuba Diving’s 2025 Readers Choice Awards survey, putting Kona Honu Divers in all seven categories.