Destination Antartica

WHEN I STARTED DIVING, I fell in love with colorful coral reefs and marine life. If you had told me that Antarctica would someday become a favorite destination, I might have laughed and said I’d never …

Plongée dans les îles Turks et Caicos

LA PLONGEE DANS LES ÎLES TURQUES ET CAICOS garantit beaucoup de beauté et d'excitation. Ce protectorat britannique d'outre-mer attire les touristes avec le slogan "Beautiful by Nature". Les eaux caribéennes des îles offrent des parois verticales à couper le souffle, des rencontres fréquentes avec des pélagiques et la possibilité d'observer une incroyable diversité de vie marine fascinante.

Un plongeur pose avec une énorme éponge tubulaire sur le site de plongée Double D.

Magie dans le Golfe

If you like the idea of a liveaboard adventure with remote, open-ocean diving where your dive boat is likely the only one on the reef, you’ll love a trip to Flower Garden Banks. It remains one of the best-kept secrets for wilderness diving in the continental U.S., where you can expect rare encounters such as a longlure frogfish on a sponge, scalloped hammerhead sharks feeding or a whale shark swimming by.

schools of creolefish

An Insider’s Guide to Roatán

Located in the Bay Islands of Honduras, Roatán is a tropical gem nestled in the turquoise waters of the Caribbean Sea. The largest of the Bay Islands, Roatán sits about 30 miles off the Honduran coast between Utila and Guanaja. Its fringing reef system makes up the southernmost edge of the Mesoamerica Reef (the world’s second-largest reef system) and is arguably Roatán’s biggest attraction.

Swarms of silversides

Opération "Soleil levant

The story of the search for the Japanese submarine I-52 is one of two discoveries separated by time and purpose. In the dark of night in the Atlantic Ocean in 1944, U.S. Navy anti-submarine ships searched for a clandestine meeting between German and Japanese naval crews. Operating on captured intelligence, they sought to surprise and sink the two submarines. Half a century later, the I-52 still rested undiscovered on the seafloor, but this time the search was in the dark of the deep ocean in pursuit of possibility, not destruction.

anti-aircraft guns still point skyward on the wreck of the I-52

Se recentrer

Avec la pandémie de COVID-19 qui freine les voyages internationaux, les plongeurs peuvent toujours choisir de plonger localement. Andy et Allison Sallmon nous emmènent dans leur voyage sur les sites de plongée de Californie centrale, où nous pouvons découvrir des sujets macro à Morro Bay et une vie marine abondante sur les sites bien protégés de Carmel et de Monterey Bay.

La côte californienne de Big Sur

Galerie de photos de La Paz

After reading Tanya Burnett’s feature about La Paz, see more of her amazing images in this photo gallery.

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La Paz

La Paz, on Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula, has always been connected to the sea, from its indigenous pre-Columbian people and a history of sea explorers, pearl divers and fishers to a modern destination attracting ocean-inspired tourists to interact with the abundant marine treasures of this region.

banc de carangues à gros yeux

Sentinelles pour la mer

The U.S. currently has 14 national marine sanctuaries and two marine national monuments, and each has its own unique story. In preserving these irreplaceable resources, the sanctuaries protect who we are at our base — our soul as a nation. They reaffirm us and connect us to our incredible heritage.

Les poissons recouvrent les jardins sous-marins luxuriants d'éponges colorées, d'anémones de mer, d'étoiles de mer, de concombres de mer, d'escargots et de crabes.
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