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See full version: The 10 Best Places to Go Scuba Diving in St. Lucia
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Read on to get ready planning for your next underwater Caribbean adventure. [links]
St. Lucia may be famous for its breathtaking Piton Mountains, but there's even more beauty to be discovered in the waters down below. In fact, there are 22 world-class diving sites in St. Lucia, boasting a veritable treasure trove of aquatic wonders and colorful marine life. The sport is so popular, it is now commemorated during a Dive Festival that draws scuba devotees to the island every September. To that end, we selected the top 10 sites every diver should visit when paying a trip to the island.
Sunk in 1986, this 165-foot freighter rests 65 feet beneath the ocean's surface in Anse Cochon Bay. Accessorized with coral fans, the wreck is now home to an array of marine creatures, including lobsters, French angelfish, and moray eels—making for an appealing photo op to show off to your friends back home. here
While two of our recommendations (Lesleen M Wreck and Daini Koyomaru Wreck) are catered more towards advanced divers, the rest showcase dive sites that contain relatively shallow areas, hardly ever exceeding 40 feet. (A major boon for recreational scuba adventurers, as it means that the brain corals, barrel sponges, and coral gardens growing just off the coast of St. Lucia are easily accessible for divers of all levels.) here
The dramatic mountains you can traverse on land across Dominica are mirrored in the topography of our underwater dive sites. Cliff faces plunge into the Caribbean Sea and descend straight down 1500 feet, pinnacles rise up from the surrounding depths almost to the surface and volcanic ridges slope off into the deep blue water.
Recently listed as one of the top dive sites worldwide by Scuba Travel in the UK, Scott’s Head Pinnacle sits on the edge of the volcanic crater, allowing divers to swim through the crater wall into the interior. The wall is covered in gorgonians, giant barrel sponges, and whip corals, and it is often patrolled by pelagics like horse-eye jacks, barracudas, turtles, yellowtail snappers and ceros. This site is better for intermediate and advanced divers unless there are perfect conditions. more
With Dominica’s incredibly warm seas and vibrant marine life, along with uncrowded dive sites and an excellent dive staff, Fort Young Dive is amongst the most premier diving operations in the world. Here, it’s our mission to ensure that divers simply can’t wait to come back. Below, get a glimpse of just a handful of diving hotspots you’ll experience with Fort Young Dive:
The Caribbean is full of amazing scuba diving spots. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced diver, you’ll find the waters off these Caribbean islands teeming with marine life, rock formations and even shipwrecks to explore. What are you waiting for? Start planning your cruise and dive in!
The waters off Cozumel and the Yucatán Peninsula are some of the best known for scuba diving. There are more than 30 dive sites along the Cozumel coastline, including the Santa Rosa Wall, Colombia Wall, Palancar Reef and Punta Tunich. The variety of both shallow and deep dives means that long-time divers and beginners alike can find a spot tailored to their experience. more
Grand Cayman
Individual island chapters now available as a download through our on-line store. more
NEW Now available on Kindle (and iPhone, iPad and Android with the free Kindle reader download)
Note from the authors
With volume 2 now out of print we have decided to enable each chapter to be downloaded as a pdf for a small fee, these are available from our on-line store. This will also enable us to update the on-line versions with all the new information we have been sent by the dive stores, these will be made available over the coming months. more