Below are descriptions of dives from some of our favorite Grenada dive sites and what you can expect to see.
Name: Sisters Slope
Location: Isle De Ronde
Depth: 20 - 130 ft
Divesite description: Starting as sloping reef which changes to a wall in the middle. Current can be anything from very mild to very strong pushing divers with reef on right hand site. Downward current can occasionally appear at the end of the site.
What you can see: Colorful corals and sponges are all over the site as well as all kinds of tropical fish as french, gray, and queen angel fish, rock buty queen trigger fish, spotted drum fish adult and juvenile, scrawled cowfish porcupinefish, trunkfish and lot more. Lobsters, green moray eels, spotted eels or goldentail morays are common. Black tip reef sharks can be seen as well as green or hawksbill turtle.
Expertise Rating: Intermediate
Name: Step Sister
Location: Isle De Ronde
Depth: 20 - 130 ft
Divesite description: Sloping reef on the other site of Sisters Rock. Current can be any direction and can change in the middle of the site.
What you can see: As on Sisters Slope good quality corals and sponges are all over the site with all kinds of tropical fish. Lobsters, eels and reef sharks are common. Small nurse sharks can be found in shallower waters and big adults in deeper ones.
Expertise Rating: Intermediate
Name: Sisters Cave
Location: Isle De Ronde
Depth: 20 - 70 ft
Divesite description: Dive starts by descending to shallow water, where we enter little cavern with two openings. After exiting the cavern we usually swim left through shallow channel to the other side of Sisters and continue with sloping reef on right hand site.
What you can see: A lot of lobsters are hiding in dark parts of the cavern. All kind of tropical fish, eels, turtles, reef sharks and nurse sharks can be seen here.
Expertise Rating: Intermediate
Name: Frigate Rock
Location: Isle De Ronde
Depth: 20 - 100 ft
Divesite description: Current here can be any direction therefore divemasters plan the dive accordingly. Most of the site is sloping reef with occasional boulders at the bottom.
What you can see: Big variety of coral such as several shades of boulder star coral and grate star coral, Graham’s sheet coral or lettuce coral can be found here as well as brain coral and coralline algae. All kind of Caribbean butterflyfish, angel fish and queen trigger fish are all over. Lobsters and big green moray eels, spotted eels and goldentail eels or nurse sharks are not unusual.
Expertise Rating: Intermediate
Name: Diamond Rock
Location: Isle De Ronde
Depth: 20 - 100 ft
Divesite description: The dive usually starts by a small wall southeast of the rock which drops down to 120ft and continues with sloping reef on right hand side and sand on the left. There is usually no current and very mild surge.
What you can see: The wall is covered in colorful corals, sea fans and wire coral with tons of fairy and blackcup basslets all over. Huge rainbow parrotfish by the bottom of the wall, hawksbill turtle and barracudas can be seen. Groups of reef butterflyfish can be observed eating sergeant major’s eggs. Nurse sharks, sting rays, lobsters, big green moray eels and ocean triggerfish are almost guaranteed. Mantas occasionally come by this area.
Expertise Rating: novice
Name: Turtle Back Drive
Location: Isle De Ronde
Depth: 35 – 70 ft
Divesite description: This is one of the fun dives where we use the strong current to fly along the reef.
What you can see: The current usually doesn’t allow us to observe small creatures as banded coral shrimp and Pederson cleaning shrimp here, however schools of creole wrasse, angel fish, butter fly fish, barracudas, nurse sharks and turtles can be observed as well as reef sharks while flying along.
Expertise Rating: Intermediate
Name: Mt de Calle
Location: Isle De Ronde
Depth: 15 – 90 ft
Divesite description: This table like mountain underwater can have current in any direction and any strength. Divemasters plan the dive accordingly.
What you can see: The reef here is covered in corals and sponges, feather duster worms and christmas tree worms of all colors. Lobsters and eels are everywhere as well as flamingo tongues and occasional fingerprint cyphoma. Turtles and nurse sharks are not unusual here either.
Expertise Rating: Intermediate
Name: Cathedral
Location: Bequia
Depth: 20 – 70 ft
Divesite description: Cathedral is a sloping reef with sandy bottom. Usually mild current can go in both directions.
What you can see: The reef is full of beautiful soft coral, sponges, stony coral and boulder coral. All kinds of eels can be found here, big green morays, spotted morays or goldentail eel and sharptail eel, which are often seen free swimming here. Tons of send creatures are hiding at the bottom such as sting rays, garden eels or peacock flounders.
Expertise Rating: novice
Name: Boulders
Location: Bequia
Depth: 30 – 90 ft
Divesite description: Nice and easy dive with mild current pushing divers with the reef on left hand side.
What you can see: This divesite offers true boulders reaching up to 20 ft or more from the bottom. Nurse sharks and reef sharks are often seen here. As we drift through tunnels and holes covered in corals and sponges we can enjoy variety of reef fish, eels and turtles as well as reef sharks.
Expertise Rating: novice
Name: 1st String Wall
Location: Bequia
Depth: 30 – 90 ft
Divesite description: This site is a wall which goes from the surface to about 30 – 40 ft where it changes to a sloping reef. Mild or none current can be expected here.
What you can see: Both wall and reef have some fine coral and sponge growth and plenty of fish to see. Also here nurse sharks and turtles are commonly seen and very difficult to find longlure frogfish are hiding on look-alike sponges.
Expertise Rating: novice
Name: Fish Mouth
Location: Bequia
Depth: 30 – 100 ft
Divesite description: Mostly strong current caries divers along 50ft vertical wall, massive boulders and a coral strewn slope.
What you can see: Several large schools of fish as creole wrasse, blue chromis, blue strip grunts, silversides and barracudas are common here. The wall is covered in vase sponges and encrusting corals. In deeper waters slope peters out into sand with huge monolithic boulders decorated by sea fans and soft corals.
Expertise Rating: Intermediate
Name: Mabouya’s Reef
Location: Carriacou
Depth: 30 – 60 ft
Divesite description: Sloping reef with none or mild current.
What you can see: Divers should not expect 100 ft visibility and blue water on this site, however it has much to offer. Combination of living and dead coral creatures and big variety of corals and sponges can be found here. Small goldentail and spotted eels are everywhere. Seahorses and even rarer harlequin pipefish are hiding in tangles of vegetation and debris.
Expertise Rating: novice
Name: Mayreau Gardens
Location: Tobago Cayes
Depth: 30 – 120 ft
Divesite description: Mild to strong currents, which usually go along the reef, will affect the choice of entry and direction of the dive.
What you can see: Even thought there has been some damage to this reef especially in shallow parts it still has a lot to offer. There are bulbous heads of boulder coral, tall pillar coral, encrusted star coral or huge sea fans. All kind of invertebrates are hiding under each coral overhang as well as spotted drums, trunkfish, porcupine or groupers. Trained eyes can find seahorses in algae growth. The amount of fish varies, though nurse sharks are almost guaranteed and black tip sharks are not uncommon either. Bubbles trickling up from the sandy bottom are sign of local volcanic activity.
Expertise Rating: Intermediate
Name: Bianca “C”
Location: St. George’s Bay
Depth: 60 - 130 ft
Divesite description: Bianca Costa, cruise liner for 400 passengers and 200 crew, sank 22nd October 1961 after fire took hold of it. This dive starts by one of the divemasters descending first and tying a buoy line to the stern of Binca “C” so divers have visual reference all the way to the wreck. Often strong currents will carry divers all the way from the stern to the bow of 600ft long ship. The wreck lies in 90 to 160 ft, however we will not exceed 130ft limit for recreational divers. Because we can spent only 10 – 12 minutes in this depth (we will bland EAN 29 for Nitrox divers), we will cross a sand area to get to near Whibble Reef to complete our dive in shallower water.
What you can see: There are plenty of deck features to explore such as the partly collapsed deck swimming pool or the steps to the upper promenade or you can swim in to the open cargo hole. The wreck is covered in black coral trees, delicate hydroids and colorful sponges, while schools of barracudas and occasional reef sharks swim by.
Expertise Rating: Advanced