About The Scuba Atlas

The Scuba Atlas is a structured reference atlas of the world's scuba diving: destinations, individual dive sites, month-by-month seasons, marine life, wrecks, protected areas, training and trip logistics — built as one connected database rather than a pile of articles.

What makes it different

Everything interconnects. A destination knows its sites; a site knows its species; a species knows which months and which destinations are actually reliable; a wreck knows its history and its protection status. That structure is why questions like "where can a new diver meet mantas in February" have real answers here.

The honesty rules

Every figure is a range, never fake precision. Every entity carries a confidence label, from well-documented to not-yet-verified — and an empty field means we did not verify a value, not that we forgot. Closures and restrictions are stated first, not buried. War-grave wrecks are treated as memorials. Nothing on this site is padded to look bigger than it is.

The atlas currently carries 547 dive sites across 106 destinations in 57 countries, with 87 species and 76 wrecks — with 700 source citations behind the entities. It grows deliberately: pages ship when they clear an internal quality gate, not when a keyword tool suggests them.

Where the information comes from

Facts are compiled from official and public sources — park and government authorities, the IUCN Red List, DAN and diving-medicine bodies, certification agencies, hydrographic and heritage registers — combined with editorial research, and cited on the pages they support. Portions of the compilation are produced with AI-assisted research and then reviewed against those sources; figures are indicative and should always be verified against primary sources before you rely on them.

About the imagery

All photography-style imagery on this site is AI-generated illustration created specifically for the atlas, and labeled as such wherever it appears. It exists to convey the character of a place or animal — the light of a cenote, the shape of a hammerhead school — not to document a specific moment. We chose consistent, honest illustration over scraping photographers' work.

What this site is not

It is not dive training, not a briefing, not a booking platform, and not medical or financial advice. It will not tell you a dive is safe — only a professional on the spot can. And it is not finished: a reference like this never is.

Corrections

Found something wrong? That matters more to us than praise. Tell us — corrections are reviewed against primary sources and logged in the editorial process described in our Editorial Policy.