Three hundred miles—and a 36-hour boat ride—southwest of mainland Costa Rica, a lush volcanic island rears up improbably out of the Pacific Ocean. Cocos is at once a geological anomaly, a stopover for ...

According to Travel + Leisure magazine, Costa Rica has one of the best places in the world to practice diving: Cocos Island. “Costa Rica’s Cocos Islands lie more than 340 miles off the country’s ...

The scent of diesel, rusting anchors and fish slurry hung in the humid air of the harbor. I was in Puntarenas on the western shore of Costa Rica, waiting to leave on a scuba-diving trip to Cocos ...

Visibility is a big factor when divers decide where to drop into the water because the clearer the water, the more a diver will see. Even the biggest whale is invisible in water that is too murky. The ...

For our second annual Ultimate Adventure Bucket List, 20 of the world's top athletes and explorers share their wildest dream trips—a dazzling list of never attempted feats daunting to even these world ...