Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Victoria (Global Adventures): British Columbia is one of the top rated diving destinations in North America. Canada’s westernmost Province has a coastline that stretches for more than 17,000 miles (27,000 kilometers), and includes deep, mountainous fjords and about six thousand islands, most of which are uninhabited.
The Coastal Mountains and the Inside Passage’s many inlets provide [...]

Budapest (Global Adventures): Dating back to Celtic origins, Budapest was the capital of Lower Pannonia during the Roman Empire. In the 15th century, the town developed into a center of Renaissance humanist culture. After nearly 150 years of Ottoman rule, Budapest became the second capital of Austria-Hungary. Today, it is home to 1.7 million people [...]

Key West (Global Adventures): For divers who like deep wrecks, the USS Wilkes-Barre is certainly worth considering. The former Navy Cruiser is split in half and sits 13.5 miles southwest of Summerland Key, Florida.
Named after the city of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the ship served during the last year of the Second World War in the Pacific [...]

Orkney (Global Adventures): Scapa Flow is best known as the site of the United Kingdom’s chief naval base during World War I and World War II. The huge body of water is sheltered by the islands of Mainland, Graemsay, Burray, South Ronaldsay and Hoy. The base was reinforced with minefields, artillery, and concrete barriers starting [...]

Gramat (Global Adventures): With thousands of known caves, France is one of the premier cave diving areas in the world. If a region stands out, it is an area between the rivers of Lot and Dordogne in the southwest of France. The upper valley of the Dordogne is a series of deep gorges. The cliffs, [...]

Germany (Global Adventures): The Aachtopf is Germany’s biggest natural spring, producing an average of 8,500 liters per second. Production varies seasonally and in response to the weather, but the spring never runs dry. The Aachtopf is a karst spring which is located south of the western end of the Swabian Jura, near the town Aach. [...]

Argostoli (Global Adventures): Cephalonia Island is home to picturesque towns such as Lassi and Fiscardo, the famous Myrtos (or Mirtos) Beach, and the Drogarati cave. Cephalonia is named after the mythological figure Cephalus and part of the lonian Islands on the western edge of Greece. Surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea, the island offers superb diving [...]

Lake Constance (Global Adventures): The Jura is perhaps the best known wreck in Lake Constance. Built in 1854 by Escher-Wyss in Zurich, the Jura was a steamboat carrying passengers across “Lake Neuchâtel” in Switzerland. In 1861, a German company purchased the ship after the sinking of the passenger boat “DS Ludwig” and moved it [...]