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 […]
“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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
Brown Pants, a diving site accessible by boat, located in the south of Norman Island, has an incredible maze of ledges, canyons and caverns; this place feels more untamed compared to other diving sites – The Caves or Angelfish Reef – where the waters are less rocky and more populated with rainbow fish and small […]
Named so after its neighbor, Carrot Rock, Carrot Shoal is located in open waters and consists of two pinnacles; conveniently placed between Norman Island and Peter Island, this is one of the most exciting night dive site. You will have mooring buoys near the diving site, courtesy of the National Park trust, but you won’t […]
Spyglass Wall is located in the north of Norman Island, at a 5 minute boat drive from The Bight. It has its name after the highest peak on Norman Island, Spyglass Hill – a place used by pirates to spot Spanish treasure fleet – which is mentioned by Robert Louis Stevenson in his “Treasure Island” […]
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