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| Bequia Dive Sites |
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1. Bullet max. 90ft/30m Can only be dived on extremely calm days with experienced divers but well worth a visit. Bullet Rock is as steep underwater as it is above. Due to the fact that diving this site is so weather dependent both fish and corals are large and numerous.
2. Bequia Head
3. Cliff's Garden
4. Long Point
5 Flat Rock max. 70ft/20m Sloping reef most of which is 20 - 50 feet deep. Usually a slow drift dive from a calm anchorage past a field of gorgonians to the distinctive flat rock which breaks the surface at the end of the dive. Regular sightings of scorpion fish, spiny lobster, large barracuda and bar jacks. Frogfish are sometimes found on the flat rock at the end of the dive but only seen by the patient and sharp eyed!
6. Cathedral max. 85ft/25m Sloping reef with boulder formations to look through. Nurse sharks often hide in the rocks and eagle rays can sometimes be spotted.
7. Cinnamon Garden max 50ft/15m. A gentle shallow dive with a variety of soft coral and gorgonians. many lobster can be spotted as can frog fish and scorpion fish.
8. Almond Tree max 60ft/18m. Sloping reef with diverse soft corals. Large green moray and turtle are a feature.
9. North West Point max. 90ft/27m An interesting drift dive, which depending on the current, can be dived either way. The middle of the dive rounds a headland and depths of 90ft can be reached here. Garden eels make their home out in the sand at approximately 40ft. You'll need to creep up on them to get a good look before they disappear. Turtles can be spotted as can many large morays.
10. Devil's Table max. 60ft/18m A great shallow dive to pick around. Lots of nooks and crannies, regular sightings of giant crab in a small overhang. The best spot to find seahorses and frog fish in the shallow sections of the reef. I took my first dive here for Discover Scuba with Bob. I think I'm probably one of the very few divers who saw a frog fish and a seahorse on my very first dive!
11. Wreck of the Viviana max. 90ft/27m A small wreck just off the reef at Devil's Table lies in 90ft, a bare hull lying on it's side hides turtles, large lobster, French angels and the occasional ray.
12. Rocky Bay. max 30ft/9m Widely used for introductory and training dives. Large shoals of sergeant majors and other small reef fish. Spectacular one off sighting of a juvenile Whale Shark made Jan's heart thump!
13 Ship's Stern. max. 45ft/13m Pleasant sloping reef meets the sand at approximately 45 feet. A slow current drifts you over a mixture of hard and soft corals and then joins a soft coral forest where Southern Stingrays are often seen. Large Tarpon are sometimes hover in the current on the northernmost corner of the gorgonians.
14 Boulders. max. 90ft/27m Nice sloping reef drift dive towards the end of which are some large boulders and swim-throughs which often conceal nurse sharks. Huge lobsters can been seen on shallower sections of the reef.
15 Moonhole max. 80ft/24m A well known dive usually dived out and back but occasionally if currents dictate divers can drift round to end of the Boulders dive site. Moonhole is famous for its seahorses but even if you can't spot them, look under rock ledges for green morays and nurse sharks.
16 Moonhole Cave. max. 85ft/25m Divers enter the water below the original Moonhole house and drift slowly southwards. About halfway along the site is the small cavern, the mouth of which can be dived along. Southern stingrays and barracuda are seen along the sometimes steeply sloping reef.
17 didi's lair
18 simons folly
19 West Cay Wall. max 120ft/35m. The start of the dive is a dramatic swim over a shallow ledge where you suddenly find yourself presented with the deep blue. At the bottom of the wall there are tunnels and swim-throughs occasionally hiding a nurse shark but if you look up you'll probably see the black tip sharks cruising overhead. The dive usually culminates at a shallow shelf on the southernmost tip where the currents meet, but on days when no currents exist it is possible to continue completely round the rock (see # 21 on map).
20 Middle Cay. max. 90ft/27m Another dive site that can be dived in either direction according to the will of the currents. It is also possible to dive both sides of Middle Cay which is a large lump of rock at the southernmost tip of Bequia. Stingrays and eagle rays are often spotted. Extensive mixture of healthy corals probably due to the strong currents in this area.
Wreck of Stratman max 70ft/21m A small intact tug boat purposely sunk as a dive site, which attracts many barracuda and angel fish.
Pigeon Island max. 100ft/30m. There are numerous interesting dive sites, featuring walls as well as sloping reefs, around this lump of rock, with names like Swimming Pool and Sharks Bay. Which site is dived depends on how the currents are running. Often large pelagics frequent the waters around Pigeon Island.
Brown's Bay max. 60ft/18m. Sloping reef, for the eagle eyed seahorses can be found. Seems to be a favourite area for juvenile spotted drums. |
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