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SHARK HOTEL - At the top of the Shark Hotel wall, divers find THE DOME - The dome was originally built as a prop for the set of a
schools of grunts, snappers, and goatfish. The wall begins in about 45ft French reality TV show. Although the show is now off the air, the ruins
and drops straight down to 80 to 100ft where a plateau juts out and of the dome remain and provide shelter to schooling fish and other
forms a shelf before plunging into the depths. As the name suggests, organisms. this dive site is home to countless gobies and tube-dwelling
this site is a good place to spot small reef sharks. Close to the moor- blennies
ing is a huge stand of pillar coral, some of the largest to be seen in the
Turks and Caicos. Named for the Caribbean Reef Sharks sometimes
seen cruising the wall. The wall levels of at 90 feet in a plateau covered
with plate corals. At 100 feet, a chimney cuts through the reef exiting at
130 feet on the deep wall. Lots of pillar coral on top of the wall.

STAIRWAY - Depth 90-100 feet. The top of the wall at about 45 feet
starts sloping down like a stairway. No sand patches just a unique
stairway-like wall. On the wall are found schools of barracuda, horse-
eye jacks, Bermuda chubs, and hamlets. Sometimes the occasional
hawksbill turtle swims by.

THE CRACK - Depth 50-100 feet. South of Eel Garden, the moor-
ing is in a large sandy area again with garden eels. A deep crevice cuts
down the wall from the top at about 50 feet down to 100 feet. This area
has loads of Christmas tree worms and feather dusters. There’s a large
black coral tree if you exit the wide crevasse on the wall at 75 feet. A
large pillar coral is on the top edge of the wall. Schools of yellowtail,
schoolmasters, and mahogany snappers can be seen. This site’s name
comes from the deep crevice that cuts down the wall from a depth of
50 to about 100fsw. Large grouper and snapper tend to hang out in the
crack among black coral and deep water gorgonian. There is always a
good chance to spot sharks and spotted eagle rays at this site.