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.
The map
Every destination, one map.
Zoom a region, click a dot, plan from there — dive sites and wrecks included.
Marine-life calendar Water-temperature finder
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 big four
The animals people plan trips around
Whale Shark
Reef Manta Ray
Scalloped Hammerhead
Green Sea Turtle
Species spotlight
Clownfish & Anemonefish
Amphiprioninae
The partnership defines the fish. An anemonefish spends its adult life inside the stinging tentacles of a host anemone, protected by a mucus coat that keeps the nematocysts from firing, and it rarely strays more than a few meters from home. Each anemone houses a strict hierarchy: one large female…
Reliable places to meet one:
Wreck of the week
USCGC Duane
Treasury-class US Coast Guard cutter (WPG-33) · sunk 1987 · 18–37 m
Few working ships earn a half-century of service as varied as the Duane's. Commissioned in 1936, the 327-foot cutter escorted North Atlantic convoys in the Second World War — taking part with her sister Spencer in the 1943 action that destroyed U-175 and rescuing survivors from…
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
Air vs Nitrox: What Enriched Air Actually Buys You
Back-Inflate vs Jacket BCD: Trim, Travel, and the Surface Question
Drysuit vs Wetsuit: Which Exposure Suit for Which Diving
PADI vs SSI: An Honest Comparison
Ascent Rates: Why Slow Wins
Citizen Science for Divers: Your Logbook Can Be Data
News
The ocean this week
Dive Industry Young Professionals Launches Annual Mentorship Initiative
Sea dragon populations decimated in ‘mind-blowing’ mass mortality event caused by South…
PADI On Tour 2026 Connects The Global Dive Community
Shark catch-and-kill order issued after swimmer dies off popular Perth beach
New Book Shows How to Build an Enduring Life in the Dive Industry
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.