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 [...]

Luraville (Global Adventures): Peacock Springs State Park has two major springs, a spring run and six sinkholes – all in near pristine condition. Cave divers have explored and surveyed nearly 33,000 feet of underwater passages, making Peacock one of the longest underwater cave systems in the continental United States. Other interesting sinks in the system [...]

Kea, Greece (Global Adventures): HMHS Britannic is currently the largest diveable shipwreck in the world, resting at approximately 400 feet (120 meters). The wreck was first discovered and explored by Jacques Cousteau in 1975 and 1976 respectively. The White Star ocean liner lies on its starboard side at a list of about 85 degrees except [...]

Atlanta (Global Adventures): To technical divers, the “SS Andrea Doria” is something like the Mount Everest, something most like to dive at least once, and something many experienced divers did only dive once. The Andrea Doria still is a true graveyard in the Atlantic Ocean decades after its sinking in 1956.
Named after the 16th-century Genoese [...]