The islands of the Bahamas are a wide-angle paradise. Dolphins, goliath groupers, sea turtles and other hard-to-miss attractions regularly cruise up from the depths to feed in the shallows.

Thank poor captains and skilled explosive handlers for the 40 ships that litter the waters off the Bahamas’ 12 main islands. Here, divers can explore everything from freighters and steamships to airplanes, landing craft and patrol boats.

These human-assisted habitats act like defibrillation paddles, revving up struggling reefs and reviving declining fish populations from Florida to Indonesia and beyond.

ScubaLab headed to the Bahamas aboard a Blackbeard's liveaboard sailboat to try out some new dive gear — see what our editors had to say.

Stake a claim on the last unknown frontier: It lies just beneath our feet. The wonders of scuba diving in caves.

A photo gallery from our D2D message board that showcases the these least understood and most endangered predators of our seas.

Located on Grand Bahama Island, the 519-room Grand Lucayan, Bahamas is situated along an expansive 7.5-acre beach with views of the turquoise Caribbean Sea.

There’s no better way to spice up a dive destination than by adding a wreck. We’ve compiled a guide to our favorite purpose-sunk wreck dives.

Based on the opinions of thousands of divers from across the globe, our annual Top 100 Readers Choice Awards showcase the best scuba diving in the world.