Fig. 1
Current status of marine scuba diving worldwide. (A) Estimated number of marine dives made annually within each country or territory by protection status. Joint regime areas and contested areas are not included. (B) Estimated number of marine dives made annually by EEZ. (C) Close-up view of the Caribbean Sea and Central America. (D) Close-up view of the Coral Triangle in the Western Pacific Ocean. (E) Close-up view of Western Europe and the Mediterranean Sea. (F) Close-up view of Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Red Sea. Panels (C–F) have the extrapolated number of marine dives made annually binned into 50 km x 50 km pixels. Base maps were generated using the R package rnaturalearth version 0.1.045.
