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Having evolved from the sea (we know, we know—it's just a theory), man seems ever eager to return to it. Here, a celebration of the urge to submerge, from cerulean soaks to strenuous (and even subterranean) swims. Who says you can't go home again?
Originally published on our sister site CondeNastTraveler.com in June 2012.










