With 700 islands, 2,500 tiny cays, and 100,000 square miles of ocean containing it all, the Bahamas collectively comprise a massive scuba and snorkel paradise.

Historically, sharks left the area when scuba divers entered the water. The bubbles from the regulators scare them off. Since shark dives started in the Bahamas many of the sharks have lost their fear of these bubbles.

One of the great joys of my diving career has been cruising the islands of the Bahamas on live-aboard dive boats.

In northern New England, a virtual history museum awaits in a lake of sunken steamboats and schooners..

The nation's third-largest ship sunk as an artificial reef didn't go down as planned, but is still an amazing dive with plenty to explore.

Discover a treasure trove of colorful macro life on the colorful island of Curaçao.

Adventures of a lifetime

Great Lakes shipwrecks are Canada's calling card for divers wanting to submerge in history.

Below the waterline, the mammoth oil and gas platforms off the Texas and Louisiana Gulf coasts are living reefs that attract everything from sharks to angelfish.