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French Cay Dive Sites
F RENCH CAY is a tiny atoll (only a few es south and is usually well lit by the sun’s D, G Spot, Half Mile, Rock & Roll and West
hundred feet long) about 15 miles due rays. the top of the wall is relatively shallow Sand Split are all similar in that because
south of Providentiales. It offers virtually at around 40 feet and well covered with each offers sharks, eagle rays, schooling
no shelter from the seas so needs to be coral clumps, rather than the sand bottom horse-eye jacks and wary jawfish. A variety
dived in good weather. It is well worth the which is found on West Caicos sites. This of- of sharks is ever-present. Nurse sharks con-
50 minute boat ride, with some of the best fers divers a rich sunny playground in shal- gregate in the shallows each July to mate.
walls and reefs on the islands. the wall fac- low water with long dives. The sites Double
