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Why the Eastern Tropical Pacific Is a Big-Animal Diving Hotspot

School of scalloped hammerhead sharks swimming above divers in the Cocos Islands

When divers dream about big-animal encounters, it’s easy to start looking halfway around the world. But some of the planet’s most exciting marine megafauna encounters are found right here in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, along the Pacific side of the Americas. Eastern Tropical Pacific diving brings you into an enormous ocean system stretching from Mexico […]

The Best Dive Destinations for Big Animal Encounters

Giant oceanic manta ray swimming with a scuba diver in Socorro, Mexico

There’s something different about seeing a truly big animal underwater. Maybe it’s a giant oceanic manta gliding directly overhead, a wall of hammerhead sharks appearing out of the blue, or the unmistakable shape of a whale shark slowly materializing in the distance. The best dive destinations for big animals can deliver encounters like these — […]