I dropped from the boat backwards into the water. Immediately I looked down and could see already the first sharks circling under the boat. My heart was pounding. They weren't just any little reef sharks, but really big ones. The distance from the surface to the seabed was about 20 meters. I was following our diving guide Geraldine. The 25-year-old Frenchwoman was accompanied by a Mexican guide who was supposed to give us back-up so that we could fully concentrate on the shar

The Mayans regarded the Cenotes as the entrance to the underworld and used them as religious places of sacrifice.

These two cannons were recovered in 1984 by the research vessel Beacon.

RMS Rhone is one of the most popular divable Caribbean wreck dive sites. The mail carrier and passenger ship sunk during a hurricane in 1867

Seychelles’ Beau Vallon Bay brings treasure hunters from all over the world. It’s said that a massive amount of pirate booty has been hiding here for over 250 years, and visitors and locals with the doubloon-bug can still be found searching feverishly for the lost treasure today. Among the hidden loot, there are alleged to be diamonds that were taken from the Nossa Senhora do Cabo e São Pedro, a famed Portuguese ship captured near Saint Denise in 1721 by the legendary buccane

The shortest way distance between America and Europe is via Iceland.

It is possible to find A Convair CV 240 lying some 300 meters off the shores of Aruba’s Renaissance Island at a depth of only 12 meters.

It reportedly belongs to a man that took part in a Nazi project to create their very own kamikaze unit - by manning live bombs with pilots.

Exceptional natural phenomena are often referred to as "the eighth wonder(s) of the world". One such example is Milford Sound in New...

Sri Lanka, formerly called Ceylon under British imperial rule, is also known as the Pearl of the Indian Ocean . The island offers unique...

Australia. For many, the 5th continent is the ultimate destination for diving. In the northeast, you have the lure of the Great Barrier Reef

One particularly fascinating diving spot just an hour and half drive from Berlin is Lake Stolpsee. With a 371-hectare surface area, it’s...

At the bottom of the Aegean Sea lays the well-preserved wreckage of a German World War II Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter.

At the beginning of World War II, Commander-in-Chief of the German Luftwaffe Hermann Göring declared during a radio address: "No enemy...