The State of the World's Dive Sites 2026
Data report · July 2026
Where the world actually dives, who runs the shops, how deep people go, and what is down there, drawn from a catalog of 9,952 dive sites across 141 countries, 16,410 dive shops, and 11,895 marine species. The second biggest body of water for diving on Earth is not a sea at all: it is freshwater.