WideWorld Magazine lists top 10 undiscovered scuba diving destinations

Thrill-seeking travellers searching for unique destinations for their scuba diving holidays will be able to find the top 10 undiscovered scuba destinations for free on the WideWorld magazine website.

Divers can explore the sheltered natural harbour water of Scapa Flow in Orkney Islands and discover the wrecks of 78 German ships which were scuttled after World War to prevent the British taking them. The harbour has been used for over 1000 years since the Vikings and offers a fantastic underwater site full of history and marine life.

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Ari Atoll in the Maldives is a great location for scuba diving holidays and offers idyllic beaches and tropical warm clear waters to capture sighting of rays, sharks, barracudas, jacks parrotfish, snappers, and sea turtles as dive swim through caverns and overhangs. Fantastic visibility provides plenty of opportunities for underwater photography.

Despite the Red Sea being a popular tourist spot for snorkelers and divers, there are still a few uncrowded diving sites left. A liveaboard trip from Port Sudan in Sudan offers quiet waters with an array of thriving marine life including wreck of The Blue Bell, a ship that sank loaded with Toyota cars.

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The Galapagos Islands in Ecuador have been a protected natural Heritage site since 2001 and with commercial fishing forbidden the area is thriving with sea life. Divers can explore the sites at night without lamps by using the light of the fluorescence to experience sightings of giant turtles, crabs, fur seals and starfish.

The volcanic activity on the island of Saba in Dutch Caribbean has created famous pinnacles and rocky outcrops surrounded by colourful coral and sponges. The underwater spikes of rock rise from the seabed to 80-100 feet below sea level and are teeming with many different species of fish and pelagic.

WideWorld magazine's five other undiscovered diving sites include Farne Islands in the UK, Pemba in Tanzania, Similan Islands in Thailand, Spitsbergen in Norway, and Curaco in the Dutch Caribbean.

Scuba diving holidays are on the increase for tourists and with waters becoming more populated with diving enthusiasts, finding uncrowded sites can be difficult so check out the top 10 undiscovered scuba destinations listed by WideWorld magazine.