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If you’re extra lucky, you may see a dolphin, a hammerhead shark or even an elusive nurse shark. At about 60 feet below the surface of the water, the contrast between light and dark is breathtaking. more
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If you’re extra lucky, you may see a dolphin, a hammerhead shark or even an elusive nurse shark. At about 60 feet below the surface of the water, the contrast between light and dark is breathtaking. more
Many of our luxury villas in the Grenadines have their location on the beautiful island of Mustique, and as luck would have it, Mustique has some of the best diving spots in the Caribbean. The island of Mustique offers dedicated and professional PADI instructors and divemasters who can cater for complete beginners up to advanced and very experienced divers.
The Bahamas are probably most famous for shark spotting, but diving in the Bahamas includes some of the world’s most spectacular drop-offs, blue Holes, caverns, tunnels, deep caves and exciting wrecks. The Bahamas also have the third largest offshore barrier reef.
On the West side of the island, Big Tunnels is an enormous passageway, wide enough for a couple of trucks to pass through, side by side. There are many spiral routes up through the coral where you will see a wide variety of aquatic life including spiny lobsters, green sea turtles, orange tube sponges and several bottle-tip anemone colonies.
The brave and adventurous are welcome to enter the ship and explore the cabins and deserted decks of U.S. Navy history on this more advanced dive. The Upper Keys Reef Foundation was formed to help promote the area’s prime scuba opportunities, which include six other shipwrecks and the first undersea park in the U.S., the John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park.
WHERE: Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands here
Virgin Gorda’s warm waters (averaging 84 degrees F in the winter and 77 degrees F in the summer), robust reefs, and variety of tropical aquatic life make the island a scuba-diving hotspot. For the best dive spot for beginners on the island, take a guided exploration with local dive experts Dive BVI to the western coast of Spanish Town. The site is shallow (30 feet), providing an aquarium-like viewing of the marine life taking shelter in rocks and granite boulders. Expect to find iridescent blue tangs, Moorish idols, and parrotfish, with chance encounters with stingrays and nurse sharks. more
WHERE: Grenada here
PLAN YOUR TRIP : Visit Fodor’s Grenada Travel Guide here
WHERE: Belize
So, you want to know where’s the best scuba diving in the Caribbean?
The USS Kittiwake is a 251 ft long, decommissioned ship that was sunk off the coast of Grand Cayman Island. The ship is in relatively shallow water and it’s upright. This accessibility makes the Kittiwake one the best purposely sunk wrecks in the world. Divers only have to travel 5 minutes by boat from Seven Mile Beach to explore this historic submarine rescue vessel. [links]
Glovers reef is an unspoiled island off the coast of Belize. Being remote, it’s not a beaten tourist destination so it has some of the healthiest coral reefs in the country. There’s a wide variety of dive sites that are filled with hundreds of species of marine life and colorful corals to keep you entertained for a weeks worth of diving.
Though technically not a one-sport destination — deep-sea fishing is also popular — Roatan’s guests primarily travel to let their inner dive flag fly.
Saba's a Caribbean hidden gem. [links]
St. Croix, of the U.S. Virgin Islands, impresses with reef life.