The 2018 Scuba Diving Readers Choice Awards rank the world's best scuba diving sites, operators, resorts and liveaboards.

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The beauty of liveaboard scuba diving with Explorer Ventures, lies not only in the ease of accessing the world’s best dive sites, but the simplicity of having your hotel, amenities, restaurant and dive facilities close by at all times. A comfortable and customized liveaboard vessel, the Turks and Caicos Explorer II puts you right on the doorstep of some of the Caribbean's most exquisite, and famous dive sites. Shore-based stays mean you spend most of your time commuting to these hard to reach dive sites. On Explorer Ventures liveaboard, you're only a giant stride away from discovering this dramatic underwater scenery, and you can dive up to 5 times a day! No fuss!

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