It's unshakable — the hope that your next dive trip will be graced by the presence of marine life so big and wild that your friends won’t believe the stories. And while part of diving’s mystique is that anything is possible on any given day in the water, there’s nothing wrong with playing the odds. At these six dive sites in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, South Africa, Hawaii and Mozambique, the animals that call these places home routinely give divers plenty to talk about. And while our friends might not believe the tales of breaching, acrobatic maneuvering and comic posturing, photos will suffice — that is, until they join us underwater to experience the thrills for themselves.