Asia Pacific
News and views and special offers plus top travel tips from the best scuba diving destinations in the Asia Pacific region including Indonesia, Thailand, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and more
Philippines to reopen for vaccinated tourists
The Philippines' government has announced that the country will open to fully-vaccinated tourists from 'visa-free' countries on 10 February.
Fantasy Island – Una Una, Sulawesi
Our Indonesia-based correspondent Alfred Minnaar visits the isolated island of Una Una in Sulawesi for some pristine diving
Threshers – wide-eyed and whiptailed
You look around, into the smoky, blue-grey waters: visibility is pretty good, something approximating 20m horizontally, maybe more, hard to…
Wrecks of Coron Bay
These Second World War wrecks of a Japanese supply fleet caught in a surprise air attack are some of the best diving in the Philippines
The best diving in the Philippines
Essential gude to nine great dive spots in the Phillippines you really don't want to miss. Maps. Photos. Videos
A diver’s guide to the wrecks of Truk Lagoon
Many believe the remnants of the Second World War Japanese wrecks of Truk Lagoon are the world's best wreck dives. Steve Jones tells us why.
Maldives floating city planned to combat sea level rise
Radical plans to develop an environmentally-friendly floating city in the Maldives have been announced by the Netherlands-based engineering firm Dutch Docklands. Officially…
Max Benjamin 1947 – 2020: a diving pioneer
Luminaries of the scuba diving world pay tribute to scuba diving pioneer and Walindi Diving Resort founder, Max Benjamin
Diving Australia’s HMAS Tobruk – the ‘Secret South’
The southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef has lots to offer divers – healthy corals, sharks, whales, and the impressive wreck of HMAS Tobruk
World’s deepest military wreck found in the Philippine Sea
Marine archaeologists believe they have found the world's deepest military wreck, captured on video at 6,220m in the Philippine Sea.
Gili Trawangan’s Girls That Tech Dive
Gili Trawangan's Girls That Tech Dive have a passion technical diving that is breaking down barriers in a male-dominated environment
Gili Trawangan – the scuba diving island with spirit
Celebrating the community that makes Gili Trawangan one of the world’s hippest scuba diving destinations, and also one of the most resilient
The best dives in Malaysia
The east coast of the Malay Peninsula and the north of Borneo island host many fantastic dive sites - here's 10 of the best dives in Malaysia
Is Paradise Lost? | Maldives Special Report
The Maldives is a premier scuba diving destination, but can its reefs survive rampant development and climate change? Douglas Seifert reports
Visitors to Palau must sign ‘Palau Pledge’
From December 2017, The Western Pacific Republic of Palau insists all visitors sign a pledge to protect the environment when they arrive.
Is this the world’s best shark dive?
Village communities in Fiji are reaping the rewards of an extraordinary shark dive that has transformed a dead reef into a fish paradise
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