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.
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.