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SUNSET REEF 3’-50’ (1-15m) Resort and dive shop property entry Octopi and red shrimp and a few orange ball anemones reside here.
where snorkelers and scuba divers see Sunset Reef ’s famous 9’ (3m) FISH POT REEF 26’-46’ (8-14m) Common check-out dive spot
bronze statue of AMPHITRITE (Am-fi-TRY-tee), Siren of the Reef. for a beginner’s first open water scuba experience, accessible only by
SUNSET REEF EAST To 20’ (6m) Boat dive commonly used for boat. Also known as MESA or RHAPSODY. This is a flat-topped
beginner scuba divers or snorkelers. Shallow reef has big coral heads coral formation with a huge variety of invertebrates and a dense
protruding 20’ (6m) high. fish population. Spiny lobsters are seen by night divers. Excellent
DON FOSTER’S CASUARINA POINT 3’-50’ (1-15m) Shore ac- snorkeling as well.
cessible snorkeling and beginner scuba. Shallow coral gardens off SOTO’S NORTH To 50’ (15m) This shore dive is particularly good
resort and dive shop. as a first checkout dive. Also good for snorkeling.
L.C.M. DAVID NICHOLSON WRECK 60’-100’ (18-30m) A 60’ AGEANT BEACH REEF 31’-56’ (10-17m) Shore entry or boat
(18m) WWII landing craft wreck sits fully encrusted 600’ (182m) dive that is also good for snorkeling. Spur and groove terrain has
offshore. overhangs and tunnels, and a coral garden loaded with fish and
DEVILS GROTTO NORTH & SOUTH 10’-40’ (3-12m) Shore invertebrates.
accessible scuba or snorkeling at southern edge of the West Wall. WRECK OF THE GAMMA to 10’ (3m) Beg. Shore access to old
Hurricanes have hammered the corals, but the caves and tunnels are freighter with hull exposed. Wreck shelters many fish including
still good places to snorkel and see silversides and the tarpon that eat silversides and the big groupers that eat them.
them. PROYAL PALMS LEDGE 40’-56’ (12-17m) Great coral garden
EDEN ROCK NORTH & SOUTH 3’-50’ (1-15m) Shore access to loaded with fish for the delight of underwater photographers. Good
dive or snorkel amongst this rocky reef extention of EDEN ROCK shallow second dive, or even better as a night dive, where plenty of
which has big coral heads, chimneys, and swim-through gullies that nocturnals come out into the horseshoe shaped reef. Night divers
lead out to the drop-off. Hurricanes and swim fins have taken their see squid.
toll on the coral life. Tarpon and a huge barracuda hangout while LONE STAR REEF 50’-60’ (15-18m)
sergeant majors look for handouts.
WRECK OF THE BALBOA 10-40’ (3-12m) This 375’ (99m)
freighter was sunk in a 1932 hurricane just 600’ (183m) off George
Town’s pier. Harbormaster permission is required. Good night dive.
