The world's diving, one honest atlas.
Dive sites with real depths and seasons. Marine life with real odds. Wrecks with real history. Built for planning actual trips — and honest about what we haven't verified yet.
Research only — every figure is a labeled range with a confidence level, never a guess dressed as a fact. Verify locally before you dive.
In season
Great right now — September
Bali & Nusa Penida
Bonaire
Cairns & the Ribbon Reefs
Galápagos Islands
Komodo
Sharm El Sheikh & Ras Mohammed
Explore
Eight diving worlds
Australia, New Zealand & East Asia
Caribbean & Western Atlantic
Europe, Atlantic & Mediterranean
Indian Ocean & East Africa
Pacific Islands & Micronesia
Red Sea & Middle East
Southeast Asia & Coral Triangle
The Americas & Eastern Pacific
Explore by experience
Diving at your level
The map
See the whole atlas at once
Every destination positioned on one world map — zoom a region, click a dot, plan from there.
Open the world map Marine-life calendar Water-temperature finder
The big four
The animals people plan trips around
Whale Shark
Reef Manta Ray
Scalloped Hammerhead
Green Sea Turtle
Species spotlight
Southern Stingray
Hypanus americanus · IUCN: NT
The southern stingray is Caribbean sand made animate — a gray-brown diamond that erupts from an apparently empty bottom, wingtips rippling, whip tail trailing, a cloud of silt hanging where it lay. Watch a flat for ten minutes and its excavation pits reveal a workaday hunter that spends its life…
Reliable places to meet one:
Wreck of the week
Million Dollar Point
Second World War military equipment dump (debris field, not a vessel) · sunk 1945 · 1–40 m
When the Pacific war ended, Espiritu Santo held one of the largest American bases on earth, and shipping mountains of used equipment home made no economic sense. The story told on Santo — supported by what lies on the seabed — is that the US offered the lot to the Anglo-French…
When to go
Diving has seasons. We mapped them.
Whale sharks are a month, not a place. Pick when you can travel and see what the ocean is doing then — water temperatures, visibility and the animals actually present.
Learn
Better diving, plainly explained
Diving with an Action Camera: Small Rig, Watchable Footage
Adaptive and Accessible Diving: Weightlessness Is the Point
Air vs Nitrox: What Enriched Air Actually Buys You
Ascent Rates: Why Slow Wins
Back-Inflate vs Jacket BCD: Trim, Travel, and the Surface Question
When to Go Where: Dive Seasons Around the World
News
The ocean this week
Chicago’s Only Black Dive Club Partners With Diveheart
5 Things Every First-Time Freediving Competitor Should Know
Ocean Advocates Condemn Bill Passage That Would Delay North Atlantic Right Whale…
Inside Australia’s $34m shark drone program – video
Vitamarinaweb Launches Its New Digital Marine Species Atlas
Editorial
The guides worth arguing with
The Best Budget Diving Destinations
The Best Dive Destinations for Beginners
The Best Diving in Southeast Asia
The Best Diving in the Caribbean
Top destinations
The heavyweights
For builders
Ask it, script it, agent it
Ask the Data answers questions from the atlas in plain English. The free JSON API and copy-paste AI-agent prompts point your own tools at the same structured data.