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13 Scuba Diving Vacations You Have To Take Before It's Too Late

  By ERIC GOLDSCHEIN   Feb 4th 2012 at 6:00AM Lifestyle RATED

If you can get over the feeling of breathing underwater - and take it from us, it isn't easy - scuba diving is an incredible way to explore the sprawling ecosystem that is the ocean blue. Specifically, coral reefs are usually the highlight of any dive.
Reefs serve two main functions: to protect our shorelines and serve as the habitat to more than 25 percent of all marine life. The loss of coral reefs would be devastating for the fish and plants that call these areas home. It would also represent a huge loss for future generations of humans who didn't get to experience these treasures for themselves.
Detailed here are 13 sites around the world that may be gone soon. You may want to visit them now before it's too late, but be sure to get scuba certified first.
Source: Business Insider

  • The Philippines
  • Aqaba in Jordan
  • Koh Phi Phi in Thailand
  • Southern Japan, Taiwan and Southern China
  • The Western Caribbean
  • Sundaland in Southeast Asia
  • The Indonesian Islands of Wallacea
  • The Gulf of Guinea
  • Cape Verde Islands
  • Southern Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean
  • The Mergui Archipelago and the Burma Banks in Myanmar
  • The North Indian Ocean
  • The Great Barrier Reef in Australia

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