Erik Trinidad is a freelance journalist focusing on experiential travel and food, whose written work has appeared in Travel + Leisure, AFAR, BBC Travel, Fodor's Travel, National Geographic, Lonely Planet, and more.
As a long-time scuba diver, I typically seek out the best scuba sites when I travel to the Caribbean. But in one destination, I didn't have to strap on an air tank to experience the wonders of the local marine life. In the Exumas...
I’ve scuba dived some pretty stellar sites across several Caribbean Islands—St. Martin, Dominica, St. Lucia, and Curaçao, to name a few. But out of all my experiences, one destination has risen to the top of my book: the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire.
At 24 miles long and seven miles wide, Bonaire is small. But it's home to a large fringing reef (a type of reef that grows directly on an island's shoreline) that supports a healthy, thriving marine ecosystem and 87 dive sites. Bonaire Natio...
Deep Dive Dubai is 197 feet deep and filled with 3.7 million gallons of sanitized fresh water.
As I descended from the surface with my guide, I felt as if I had entered another world — almost as if I was in a dream. I was scuba diving in a man-made pool and with each passing moment, my preconceptions about what this experience would be like were swiftly debunked.