Data & research

Divemates maintains one of the largest open catalogs of diving anywhere. Now and then we turn it into something worth reading: reports and open datasets on where the world dives, and what is down there.

Reports

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.

Read the report