The Top 10 Dive Resorts -- for Non-Divers, Perhaps

In November, Fox News's website ran an article, prepared by the Gayot Guide, called the "The World's Top Ten Dive Resorts." While on one hand, it looks like a list of comfy beds, accommodations at the one U.S. destination were not even listed. Here's what Gayot came up with.

* Huvafen Fushi, North Male Atoll, Maldives
* Four Seasons Resort, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt
* Bonne Terre Mine, Missouri (no resort listed)
* Octotal Beach Resort, Playa Ocotal, Costa Rica
* Blue Waters Inn, Batteaux Bay, Tobago
* Amankila, Bali
* Hotel Ilio, Italy
* Tanjong Jara Resort, Dungun, Malaysia
* Palau Pacific Resort, Koror
* Capella Lodge, Lord Howe Island, Australia

Bali diving over Raja Ampat or Lembeh? Lord Howe Island instead of Lizard Island, with its giant potato cod? A quarry listed as the top dive resort in the U.S., where the accommodations are motel-driven? Italy? Tobago's modest BlueWaters Inn (though we like the diving there, as you see in this issue)? Thumbs down to Gayot, and to Fox News for accepting this sub-par travel piece as good advice for its readers.