Our annual Top 100 Readers Choice Awards are based on your real-world dives, and they let us take that journey right along with you. Since 1994, we’ve been presenting our ­readers’ picks for the best diving in the world in our annual Top 100 Readers Choice Awards. It’s a feature that we love to put together, because we consider the results of our annual Top 100 survey a way for magazine readers, fans and online followers to share their most ­remarkable moments ­underwater. Below you'll find the winning destinations for the Best Freshwater Diving.

How the Winners are Chosen:
Thousands of Scuba ­Diving subscribers and online users rated their experiences at dive destinations in a ­variety of categories on a scale from 1 to 5. Final scores are an average of the numerical scores awarded. A minimum number of ­responses was required for a destination to be included in these ratings.

Here's the breakdown for top scorers in the freshwater diving category:

Caribbean and Atlantic

1. Mexico

2. Bahamas

North America

1. Florida

2. Great Lakes

Pacific and Indian Oceans

1. Australia

2. New Zealand

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