Turks & Caicos Resorts:
Summary of Resorts
Beaches Turks & Caicos
The Regent Palms
The Turks and Caicos Islands are two groups of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, southeast of the Bahamas.
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| Dive Site | Description |
Depth |
| Amphitheatre | At about 85 feet, there is an undercut on the wall which goes back into the wall at 10-15 feet. A large orange elephant ear sponge sits on the top lip with black coral and orange rope sponges found below the undercut. Lobsters, schooling horse eye jack and flamingo tongues are common on the soft corals on the top of the wall. |
85
feet |
| Black Coral Forest | Divers will find large areas of plate coral and deep water gorgonians and see a ledge at about 200 feet leading off into the blue. Lots of black coral here including wire and pinnate and schools of grunts and parrotfish are often seen on the top of the wall. |
110
feet |
| Chimney | Starting at about 50 feet, divers swim through a ravine and exit on the wall at 90 feet. The wall is a nearly vertical drop to about 200 feet with scattered wire coral, soft corals, and crinoids in many of the holes. Keep your eyes on the blue water for the occasional shark and eagle ray. |
90
to 100 feet |
| Coral Stairway | 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. |
90
to 100 feet |
| Eel Garden | Many brown garden eels can be found near the cable and wireless cable. Nurse sharks and peacock flounders too. Lush corals cover the top of the wall starting at about 50 feet and the wall itself is covered with soft corals, tube and rope sponges, and star corals with a huge sand patch at about 130 feet. |
50-130
feet |
| Hole in the Wall | A
hole in the top of the reef drops vertically from 55 feetand
exits from the face of the wall at 90 feet. Space is limited to one
diver in the chimney at a time. Growths along the inside walls are
brittle and sharp. Lots of plate coral, schooling fish and lobsters. |
55-90
feet |
| Real Mans Wall | The dive site starts with a large canyon leading out to 'the wall', and exiting at about 90 ft. Pillar Corals are found here and lots of schooling fish. Remnants of 'spur and groove' coral formation form small ridges. Lobster, crabs, and other critters that enjoy the recesses of the reef like to hang out. |
90
feet |
| The Crack | South
of Eel Garden, the mooring 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. |
50-100
feet |
| Thunderdome | Originally was part of the set for a French game show. The top of the steel structure is at 15 feet and the bottom at 35 feet. What remains of the dome is covered with scallops, clams, Christmas tree worms, Secretary blennies and other small life. Red stripe cleaning shrimp are often seen there, as well as a resident barracuda, gray angelfish, and Queen Angelfish. Scattered around the dome are coral heads. |
15-35
feet |
| Tiki Huts | Just offshore from the Amanyara on Malcolm Roads Beach, this site starts at about 40-45 feet and great for blennies and gobies. Knobby and corkscrew anemones are common with golden and beaded crinoids found in many of the nooks and crannies. Gray angelfish are also often seen on this site. |
40-45
feet |
| Two Step | The top of the wall starts at about 40 feet and drops sheer to 100 feet where there is a sandy shelf. The wall then drops off into the deep. An old anchor is cleverly disguised as a pillar coral. Nurse sharks are commonly seen as well as whitespot filefish, blackbar soldierfish and squirrel fish. |
40-100
feet |
| Land of the Giants | This dive area is found in a deep water channel between Provo and West Caicos, leading to the Caicos Banks. Can be rough in the winter months. An abundance of nutrients pass from the banks to the reefs and sometimes this reduces the visibility and makes this site undiveable. These conditions are often the best though for spotting large pelagics...... sharks, eagle and manta rays so keep your eyes fixed out into the “blue”. |
40-110
feet |
| Tons of Sponge | Diveable only during an incoming tide, the topography is mixed with huge sand patches at the top of the wall, shallow reefs with holes and hiding places for fish. Great site for watching fish.....schools of Atlantic spadefish, horse-eye jacks, grunts, angelfish, rock beauties, and chromis.Watch for lobsters, channel-clinging crabs, eels, and stingrays too. |
30-100
feet |
| Beckys Beautiful Bottom | Huge
coral heads and barrel sponges line this wall, each containing a community
of fish and creatures. Great site for photographers who like shooting
macro shots. You'll find hermit crabs, pederson cleaning shrimp, and
corkscrew anemones. |
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| Boat Cove (aka Rock Garden Interlude) | The
top of the wall is a sand plateau with many small coral heads. The
sandy area attracts many rays and flounders as well as yellow coral
shrimp. The reef on top of the wall has small clumps of staghorn coral
and is home to grunts, snappers, groupers, rooster-tail conch, and
many juvenile fish. Lots of fish found on this site. |
40-130
feet |
| Brandywine | The top of this dive site starts at 55 feet and drops down the sheer wall to about 120 feet. Sand chutes lead down to the wall and create overhangs where fish can hide. You will find giant sea anemones, blue tangs, soft corals, tiger-tailed sea cucumbers, and white spotted filefish.Watch for azure vase sponges as well along the wall and on top of the reef. |
55-120
feet |
| Coney Island | A
small, sloping mini wall in about 25 feet of water is home to several
small caves and overhangs great for finding those elusive critters
that like to hide in the shade, including the occasional nurse shark.
A lush coral field is located in 40 ft of water and is home to many
fish, southern stingrays, eels and flying gurnards. On top of the
wall, the depth gets as shallow as 5-15ft, but is one of the prettiest
parts of the dive. Large 'sinkholes' are home to giant sea anemones,
and the small creatures that live in and around them. |
5-25
feet |
| Devil's Horn | This
site is named for a large coral outcropping ('the horn') on the wall.
It starts in about 55 ft, with the top of the horn in approx 80 ft
of water. A spectacular view greets the diver as you round the top
of the horn with schooling fish congregating on the top of the out
cropping. Under the boat sometimes you'll see large Southern Stingrays,
and beds of garden eels. |
55
-80 feet |
| Driveway
(aka Skislope aka
Yankee Town) |
A
sand area with scattered coral heads lies under the mooring in about
40 feet of water and leads into a sand chute that heads down through
the reef from 50 feet to a ledge at about 80-100 feet where the wall
drops vertically to the deep. All along the wall, as at many of the
sites at West Caicos, divers will find black coral and purple tube
sponges, with yellow-headed jawfish, golden-tailed morays, groupers,
black durgons. The ledge area features some excellent growth of plate
and star corals. |
40-100
feet |
| Elephant
Ear
Canyon |
Named
after the largest known orange elephant ear sponge in the Turks and
Caicos. It's a huge one.......nearly 11 feet in diameter and almost
perfectly round. The top of the reef starts in 40 feet of water where
coral heads are scattered amongst sand chutes that extend down the
reef. The sponge is located at the foot of the sand chutes in 95 feet
of water. |
40-90
feet |
| Gully | The
Gully gets its name from a cut in the reef that forms two distinct
sections before dropping off vertically. The wall begins in about
50 feet and the top of the wall is a dense coral reef with many cleaning
stations. Divers begin by swimming through this cut and dropping onto
the wall at 85 feet. The vertical wall here has many undercuts covered
in sponges, black corals and long tentacled anemones. If you're real
lucky, you may see a redbanded lobster at about 75 feet. |
50-70
feet |
| Highway to Heaven | Located towards the north end of West Caicos , the dive begins in 50–60 feet of water with a large colony of garden eels in the sand chute resembling a highway or alley. This is one of our deeper dives with coral arches and swim-throughs around 80-100 feet. There are two unique and rare rope sponge colonies whose form mimics staghorn coral. The site is a popular one because of the many stingrays and frequent shark sightings. Lots of scorpion fish, Atlantic spadefish and large eagle rays too. |
50-100
feet |
| Magic Mushroom | The
site is named after the rock formation near West Caicos that is shaped
like a giant mushroom. The wall is buttressed with sand chutes covered
with rope sponge and black coral leading down the wall. Look for the
huge black coral tree at about 80-85 feet. On top of the wall, for
a shallow 2nd dive, the large coral heads are home to numerous fish,
eels, and conch. |
20-85
feet |
| Southwest Reef | This reef has a deeper wall beginning between 50-70 feet. The wall is vertical with enormous barrel sponge, deep water gorgonians and frequent sightings of shark and eagle ray. |
50-70
feet |
| Sunday Service | At the
top of the wall on this site, three sand chutes extend to the sloping
wall. Divers will find lots of schools of small barracuda, squirrel
fish, yellow goat fish and several members of the hamlet family. |
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