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Grenada Diving Guide
Grenada offers some spectacular diving suitable for everyone from beginners to experienced divers.
Grenada is surrounded by reefs which slope creating gentle underwater scenery. The most common corals are boulder, star and staghorn with sea rods and black corals?you will also find colourful sponges and soft corals.
The variety of dive sites mean that there is a good range of depths and currents catering for beginners as well as advanced divers.
You will discover Manta Rays, which are fast becoming at home in these waters. Other fish you will see include barracuda, turtles, lobster, moray and snake eels as well as nurse sharks and larger grouper .So come dive with ScubaTech now for a memorable diving experience.
There is even an Underwater Sculpture Gallery. If you are not a diver you should still have a look at these pictures. A great idea. Sculptures underwater which change over time by coral growth.
Advanced divers will find a lot of high-voltage diving opportunities. Most diving is conducted from boats and drift diving is standard fare throughout the Windwards.
Dive operators typically use guides with surface marker buoys to lead groups. Because of the strong currents sometimes involved, It is recommend carrying an inflatable surface tube, Dive Alert audible signaling device or whistle, small signal strobe and reflector in your buoyancy compensator (BC) pocket for safety just in case you get temporarily separated from your guide.
Grenada does not have a recompression chamber; Trinidad and Barbados both have recompression facilities, about 30 minutes away by air ambulance.
All members of the Grenada Scuba Diving Association have an emergency plan and oxygen on board their dive boats.
Wrecks Around Grenada
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The Bianca C is Grenadas most famous and spectacular dive.
After catching fire in St. Georges harbor in 1961, she was towed out to sea by a British warship. During towing, she sank close to Whibble Reef.
You can see the radar console and instruments in the wheelhouse, and the radar scanner still turns freely. The wreck lies on its port side in about 50 feet (15 m) of water. You can swim around in the hold but some care is required, as the contents of the hold may not have fully settled. The two wrecks are within a five-minute swim of each other.
Three cut up wrecks but with strong currents which were dumped off Quarantine Point. Inshore reef has Rock beauties and Angelfish.
The Veronica is a small, barge-like cargo vessel lying upright on the bottom in about 45 feet (14 m) of water. There is a crane on board with its derrick extending outwards, covered with colorful marine growth. The hold is open and you can swim around inside.
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Boss Reef Boss Reef is an extensive reef that reaches from the red buoy outside the harbor entrance towards Point Saline. There is a vast expanse of soft brown coral trees which form an "other-worldly" landscape. There are large shoals of tropical fish, often including clouds of blue creole wrasse. Lobsters can often be seen peeking from crevices. / Spice Island Reef
Black coral at greater depth (45ft+), black gorgonians, Groupers, Morays and Angelfish.
Wall full of reef fish - Creole Wrasse, Yellow Chromis, Grunts and Jack Knife fish. At 90ft. Grouper, Jacks and Rays seen. Wall has whip coral, sponges and sea fans. Black Seahorses occasionally seen in shallower parts.
- Grand Mal Point Grand Mal Point Whip corals, gorgonians and sea fans on this wall dive plus common reef dwellers.
- Happy Hill Happy Hill
- Happy Valley Happy Valley Depth here is 20 - 90 ft. Look for admiralty anchor. Wall dive. Good tidal movement makes this a good drift dive to Dragon Bay.
- Isle de Rhonde Isle de Rhonde
- Kick'Em Jenny Kick Em Jenny Brilliant visibility 100 ft+. Rare and plentiful coral and marine life. Visits here include trip to Isle de Rhonde in a two tank dive.
- Molinere Reef Molinere Reef is part of Grenada?s underwater marine park, which extends to Flamingo Bay and offers excellent diving for beginners and the more-experienced. The dive starts at 20 feet (6 m), and the reef leads to a wall that slopes down from 35 to 70 feet (11 to 21 m). Around the top of the reef there is a variety of tropical fish including yellow-headed and mottled jaw fish and spotted drums. A short distance away from the wall is the wreck of the Buccaneer, a steel schooner lying on its side in about 70 feet (21 m) of water.
- Red Buoy Red Buoy South West near St. George's. Coral clumps on remains of 18th Century wreck. 70 feet deep. Man-made wall nearby sees many admiralty anchors. Blue vase sponges in shallows.
- Shark Reef Shark Reef - Just off Glover Island, this is a reef abundant with all types of fishes and rays. On almost every trip, southern stingrays and juvenile nurse sharks are seen. A fun dive at 40 feet (12 m) with lots to see including a giraffe-shaped pillar coral.
- Spice Island Reef Spice Island Reef is an ideal beginners dive: a sandy area fringed by reef with brain corals dotted about. Breeding ground hence many juvenile fish can be seen here.
- Windmill Shallows Windmill Shallows Narrow, shallow ridge 20 - 30 ft. wide. A 90 ft. drop off on landward side, 145 ft. drop off on seaward side.
- Tidal currents flowing over ridge bring abundant fish.
- Whibble Reef Whibble Reef - This dive is generally the shallow leg of a multilevel dive from the Bianca C. Depths range from 60 to 100 feet (18 to 30 m). It is a drift dive for the advanced diver accustomed to dealing with strong current. The water carries you swiftly along the reef, with small sand sharks, barracuda and larger grouper browsing among the coral heads.
- The Japanese Gardens The Japanese Gardens
- Kohani Kohani
- Northern Exposure Northern Exposure
- Purple Rain Purple Rain The reef has been given its name because of the purple coloured creole wrasse which swim in formation, if they swim downwards it looks like purple rain!
- Shark Reef Shark Reef
- The Sisters The Sisters
- The Valleys The Valleys
- Quarter Wreck Quarter Wreck. Location : South West Grenada. In the approach area to the Bianca C with large coral formations and schooling fish.
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