50 Best Scuba Diving Songs for IG Reels & Stories
Best Songs for Scuba Diving Instagram Reels and Stories
There’s a strange calm that sneaks in the moment you sink beneath the surface. The air sounds different, your heartbeat feels louder, and then the music in your head kicks in like it’s scoring the bubbles around you. Some tracks come close to that slow drift, while others lean into the rush of kicking through blue water with schools of fish scattering like confetti. Not every track has to mention oceans or diving to make sense here. Sometimes the beat alone carries that underwater mood.
A good reel or story from a dive never matches the tidy postcard version in your head. It’s blurred edges, mask fog, a burst of sunlight through the surface, and maybe your flipper in the corner of the frame. That’s where the right song slides in. Pop, rock, country, and R&B songs all have tracks that can catch this energy, even if the lyrics point somewhere else. Some of them feel like drifting, some like freefall, and a few like that snap when you break the surface again.
These picks lean into the weird mix of quiet and adrenaline that diving brings. They’re not aiming for cinematic polish but for the raw pulse of being in water where time feels bent. A track can make a short clip of floating look like an entire memory. Here are the best scuba diving songs for Instagram reels and stories.
Top 10 Underwater Instagram Songs
1. 'Where Is My Mind?' by Pixies
2. 'Beyond the Sea' by Bobby Darin
3. 'Ocean Man' by Ween
4. 'Kokomo' by The Beach Boys
5. 'Under the Sea' by Samuel E. Wright
6. 'Sailing' by Christopher Cross
7. 'Octopus's Garden' by The Beatles
8. 'Into the Ocean' by Blue October
9. 'Ocean Eyes' by Billie Eilish
10. 'Only the Ocean' by Jack Johnson
Songs for Scuba Diving Videos #11 to 20
11. 'Yellow Submarine' by The Beatles
12. 'Breathing Underwater' by Metric
13. 'A Pirate Looks at Forty' by Jimmy Buffett
14. 'The Ocean' by Led Zeppelin
15. 'The Tide Is High' by Blondie
16. 'The Ship Song' by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
17. 'Ocean Drive' by Duke Dumont
18. 'Come Sail Away' by Styx
19. 'Southern Cross' by Crosby, Stills & Nash
20. 'Underwater' by Smoke City
Popular Songs About The Sea #21 to 30
21. 'Swim Good' by Frank Ocean
22. 'Seaside' by The Kooks
23. 'Orinoco Flow' by Enya
24. 'Down by the Water' by The Drums
25. 'Under Pressure' by Queen
26. 'I Sat by the Ocean' by Queens of the Stone Age
27. 'Ocean Breathes Salty' by Modest Mouse
28. 'Sail On, Sailor' by The Beach Boys
29. 'Ocean' by Martin Garrix featuring Khalid
30. 'The Beautiful Briny Sea' by David Tomlinson and Angela Lansbury
Best Songs for Underwater Reels #31 to 40
31. 'Into the Mystic' by Van Morrison
32. 'Sea of Love' by Phil Phillips
33. 'Cake by the Ocean' by DNCE
34. 'Surfin' USA' by The Beach Boys
35. 'Rockaway Beach' by Ramones
36. 'Island in the Sun' by Weezer
37. 'Soak Up the Sun' by Sheryl Crow
38. 'A Whale of a Tale' by Kirk Douglas
39. 'Under the Boardwalk' by The Drifters
40. 'Sloop John B' by The Beach Boys
Ocean Songs for Instagram #41 to 50
41. 'Octopuses Garden' by The Wiggles
42. 'Low On Air' by 77 Bombay Street
43. 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' by Gordon Lightfoot
44. 'Blue Ocean Floor' by Justin Timberlake
45. 'Oceans' by Seafret
46. 'Drowning' by A Boogie Wit da Hoodie featuring Kodak Black
47. 'Ship to Wreck' by Florence + The Machine
48. 'Dive' by Hot Shade & Mike Perry featuring Chris James
49. 'Astronaut in the Ocean' by Masked Wolf
50. 'No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems' by Kenny Chesney
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