Explore top-rated dive spots tagged with historical across multiple destinations.
Sihanoukville · Sihanoukville Province · Cambodia
A remote Cambodian military island with pristine, rarely-dived reefs teeming with healthy coral, reef sharks, and large schools of fish in crystal waters.
San Juan Bautista · Juan Fernandez Archipelago · Chile
A WWI German cruiser scuttled in 1915 lies in the remote Juan Fernandez Archipelago, surrounded by endemic marine species found nowhere else on Earth.
Mariehamn · Aland Islands · Finland
A well-preserved 18th-century Swedish warship resting in the cold, dark waters of the Aland archipelago, offering advanced wreck divers a rare encounter with maritime history in the Baltic Sea.
Malvan · Maharashtra · India
A coastal reef surrounding the historic Sindhudurg sea fort off Maharashtra's Konkan coast where rocky substrate, recovering coral gardens, and the fort's submerged walls create western India's most accessible scuba diving experience.
Banda Neira · Banda Islands · Indonesia
The legendary Spice Islands' volcanic walls delivering jaw-dropping encounters with hammerhead sharks, pristine coral reefs, and some of the most dramatic underwater topography in Indonesia.
Caesarea · Haifa District · Israel
The world's first underwater museum and archaeological park, where divers explore the submerged remains of King Herod's Roman harbour with marked trails, ancient columns, and shipwreck anchors in clear Mediterranean shallows.
Kingston · Kingston Parish · Jamaica
The submerged remains of the 17th-century pirate capital destroyed by a catastrophic 1692 earthquake, where colonial-era buildings, walls, and artifacts lie beneath the shallow waters of Kingston Harbour.
Liepaja · Baltic Sea · Latvia
Haunting underwater ruins of a 19th-century Russian military fortress slowly reclaimed by the Baltic Sea, offering eerie exploration among collapsed fortifications and WWII debris in shallow Latvian waters.
Sidon · South Governorate · Lebanon
Shallow archaeological diving beneath the 13th-century Crusader Sea Castle of Sidon, where Phoenician harbour remains, scattered amphora fragments, and ancient stone blocks are colonised by marine life in the warm Lebanese shallows.
Majuro · Bikini Atoll · Marshall Islands
The massive WWII aircraft carrier USS Saratoga rests upright on the floor of Bikini Atoll's lagoon, a ghostly monument to Operation Crossroads.
Tivat · Kotor Municipality · Montenegro
A secluded bay near the entrance to the Bay of Kotor sheltering multiple wreck sites from different eras, including Austro-Hungarian naval vessels and Yugoslav-era patrol boats resting on a sandy seabed surrounded by reef life.
Rabaul · East New Britain Province · Papua New Guinea
A graveyard of Japanese WWII warships and aircraft in a volcanically active harbour, where history and marine life merge beneath the warm waters of New Britain.
Catarman · Northern Mindanao · Philippines
A hauntingly beautiful volcanic dive site where a 19th-century cemetery lies submerged after a massive eruption, now colonized by corals and reef fish around sunken tombstones and a giant cross memorial.
Trincomalee · Eastern Province · Sri Lanka
The world's first purpose-built aircraft carrier, sunk by Japanese bombers in 1942, now resting upright on the seabed as one of Asia's greatest wreck dives.
Norrköping · Östergötland · Sweden
A collection of remarkably preserved wooden and iron shipwrecks in the brackish Baltic Sea off Norrköping, where cold, low-salinity water inhibits decay and preserves maritime history.