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INGANESS BAY

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This diving site is located at a 3 minute boat ride from the southern part of Cooper Island and unlike Rhone Wreck, Inganess Bay doesn’t have a grim story behind it; the 136 foot island freighter was sunk in 1996 by BVI Dive Operators Association to create a beautiful divable wreck. Resting on sand, the […]

CISTERN POINT

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Accessible by boat, Cistern Point is a shallow diving spot located on the western side of Copper Island, at a 2 minute boat ride from Cooper Island. The underwater topography includes craters, ledges and rocky formations that hide small fish and marine creatures. You will have the chance to spot shrimps, blue tangs, queen angelfish, […]

VANISHING ROCK

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Vanishing Rock is situated on the eastern side of Salt Island, having the Cooper Island on the right side. You can get here by taking a 20 minute boat ride from Road Town and usually this site is frequented by those who want to experience a silent, less crowded dive. Located near one of the […]

BLACKBEARD’S

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Blackbeard’s is located northeast of Dead Chest Island and it’s situated at a 12 minutes boat ride from Virgin Gorda, the third largest city of the British Virgin Islands. Brain, sheet and stars corals, large sea fans and flowing water plants cover the rocky formations and the sandy bottom. This reef has a huge potential, with […]

DEAD CHEST (CORAL GARDENS)

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“Fifteen Men on the dead man’s Chest, Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum” Edward Teach, widely known as Blackbeard, decided to abandon 15 of his men after a mutiny, leaving them with a cutlass and a bottle of rum each. […]

DEAD CHEST WEST

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Dead Chest West is a diving site in the west of Dead Chest Island, bursting with exotic fish, structured in many levels which create a nice array of underwater formations. Snappers, fairy basslets, gorgeous grunts, chromis, sea breams, spotted hawkfish, wrasse, gobies, Spanish hogfish, glassy sweepers, banded coral shrimps, urchins, green moray eels, lobsters, big […]

PAINTED WALLS

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You will find Painted Walls near Dead Chest Island; one of the most popular places in the British Virgin Islands, this diving site got his name from the wonderful sceneries that lay under the waters, with the colorful, coral covered walls. Bold coral – yellow, red, orange, and purple – will captivate your eyes with […]

FEARLESS & WILLY T

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Fearless & Willy T is located about half a mile north of Great Harbour and features two sank ships. The first one is the Fearless, which many believe to be the sister ship of Calypso, Jack Cousteau’s mobile laboratory. Willie T is the second one and it was a popular floating bar and restaurant, which […]

RHONE’S ANCHOR

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Located between Fearless and Randy’s Reef, Rhone’s Anchor has a hidden gem inside it, the anchor from the most famous divable shipwreck, RMS Rhone. This was a royal mail steam ship, which transported passengers and mail between the Caribbean and England. On the morning of 29th October 1867, the Captain noticed bad weather was ahead […]

RANDY’S REEF

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Randy’s Reef is a deep water harbour with a popular spot for commercial fishing and snorkeling, located east of Little Harbour; you can find moorings in the western side of the harbour, not too many, but the wait and search will be worth it when you’ll explore all the beauties this site has to offer. If […]