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When your friend is a hot shot marine ecologist and she invites you to go snorkeling Butler Bay, you go, sharks or no sharks, right?

Splashing down at Buck Island always elicits the same childhood joys of my youth, the butterflies bounding about my belly every single time.

The beauty of boating around St. Thomas with Captain Thomas is you get to know some of the island's secrets. Secrets like Cave Cove at Outer Brass Island.

One of the top dive sites in the Exuma Islands of The Bahamas, Amberjack is a patch reef measuring about 50 feet in length that is ideal for all levels of divers.

Few places provide it better than the sea; fewer still as spectacularly as The Bahamas. Beneath the waves amid the clear, the blue, all worries fade away.

You don't go to Tugboat Beach, Curacao for common seaside lounging. It's the beach's namesake, a tugboat wreck sitting just offshore, that's the real draw.

No matter how you get to Waterlemon Cay, DO NOT miss out on the snorkeling...

Everything at Deep Water Cay is designed to help you unwind in style. Even drift snorkeling Deep Water Cay includes pampering.

Historic shipwrecks aren't the only thing to discover on the seafloor of Saint-Pierre these day, though...