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...These walls off Selayar can be explored solely by scuba divers. The seafloor starts its descent to the continental shelf a few meters below the waves, then rapidly turns vertical and beyond the reach of even the most deep-lunged of snorkelers. The sensation during that first wall dive is somewhere between giddiness and terror. Floating above an abyss populated by the flickering forms of deepwater sea creatures takes some getting used to, but distractions abound. The wall is covered with a moving mosaic of fat, brown sea cucumbers, vivid corals, shrinking anemones and tiny, glittering fish. The deeper...
...underwater. Specifically, New Yorkers were told that the Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty and their apartment buildings could be targeted; the country's 103 nuclear power plants were placed on heightened alert; and new, cryptic FBI dispatches warned of the remote possibility of small-aircraft kamikazes and scuba-diver offensives--perhaps, a source tells TIME, to place a limpet mine on the hull of a cruise ship...
...Perhaps because they are so remote, the reefs are relatively unvisited; divers are more likely to meet a manta ray than another human. Almost all the scuba shops are based in Port Blair, and while there are a number of interesting dive sites in the vicinity, the capital is hardly the most scenic part of the islands. A better option is the Andaman Scuba Club (and amanscubaclub.com ) on Havelock Island?a 4-hr. ferry ride north of Port Blair. This operation, run by a pair of Swiss enthusiasts, is still adding to its regular sites as divers explore the neighboring...
There are plenty of things you can do in a desert that have nothing to do with sand or sun: skiing, water-skiing, canoeing, trekking, scuba diving, golf, safari, horse racing ... Well, not in every desert, perhaps. But you can do all that in Dubai, which, as more than half a million Asians a year are discovering, is the world's new adventure sports Mecca...
...reality tourists." Instead of that pastrymaking jaunt to Provence, for $1,665, including room, board and air fare from the U.S., travelers can spend a week in Guatemala to "learn about the history of repression and political violence," courtesy of the Center for Global Education in Minneapolis, Minnesota. If scuba diving in Hawaii doesn't appeal, for $3,299, plus airfare, Americans can travel through Southeast Asia to meet with land-mine victims and "learn how the secret CIA war on Laos affected the people," a three-week tour organized by the group Our Developing World in Saratoga, California. Says...