Sample Dive Sites

CJ's Drop Off

Location: 
Utila, North
Highlights: 
Drop off wall over 300 metres, pelagic creatures passing zone

DIVE BRIEF: This is one of Utila's most impressive sites, especially when the water is clear. With a wall that runs to a depth of almost 300 metres, it makes your descent over the plateau feel like your jumping off a cliff with a parachute. The sensation of its depth is unforgettable. The buoy site is at 8 metres on an extensive plateau where a diver will see many different types of brain coral. East of the plateau you will spot a deep sand channel (17 metres) that is often visited by the Great Barracuda and the occasional Nurse Shark.

Dive Site Photo: 
Normal Visibility: 
35metres
Currents: 
Caribbean Light to Rum Punch Mild
Site Depth: 
7metres
300metres
Divesite Difficulty : 
Easy to Advanced (Advanced Open Water)
Time to Site : 
57minutes
Common Marine Life Sightings: 
Spotted Trunkfish, Foureye Butterflyfish, Red Porgy, Tarpon, Branching Tube Sponge, Azure Vase Sponge, Branching Fire Coral, Flamefish, Permits, Green Moray, Scrawled Filefish
Dive 25 Hotspot Watch: 
Channel Clinging Crab, Great Barracuda, Cusion Sea Star
Dive Site Map: 

Shark Point

Location: 
Gili Trawangan, West
Highlights: 
'Shark Hotspot' & series of 3 ridge-valleys

DIVE BRIEF: From the sloping reef of Andy's Point, the series of 3 ridges and valleys (25m, 20m, 18m) running parallel to the shore, lead into the deeper waters of Shark Point (28metres). An area which truly deserves its name, this is an excellent site for viewing the larger marine life. Turtles are almost guaranteed to be found in the shallower parts among the soft corals. As the name suggests, this is a hotspot for White Tip and Black Tip Reef Sharks.

Normal Visibility: 
25metres
Currents: 
Caribbean Light to Roller Coaster Rush
Site Depth: 
18metres
28metres
Divesite Difficulty : 
Easy to Advanced (Advanced Open Water)
Time to Site : 
12minutes
Common Marine Life Sightings: 
Whitetongue Jacks, Great Barracuda, Wahoo, Big Eye Trevally, Longnose Butterflyfish, Big Eye Snappers, Honeycomb Groupers, Freckled Hawkfish, Black Triggerfish, Social Feather Dusters
Dive 25 Hotspot Watch: 
Blue-spotted Ribbontail Ray, Moorish Idol, Blue-Ringed Octopus

Toucari Caves

Location: 
Toucari Bay
Highlights: 
Beautiful cave & coral archways, bubbles rising from reef floor

DIVE BRIEF: Toucari Caves is perhaps the most beautiful dive in Dominica if not the Caribbean. An incredible healthy reef; you can swim through a beautiful cave and coral archways as the bubbles rise from the reef floor. Incredibly abundant with fish life, it is a must dive and always a favorite for our instructors and dive guides.

Normal Visibility: 
23metres
Currents: 
Still to Caribbean Light
Site Depth: 
10metres
30metres
Divesite Difficulty : 
Easy to Advanced (Advanced Open Water)
Time to Site : 
10minutes
Common Marine Life Sightings: 
Spotted Drums, Scrawled Filefish, Hogfish, Glassy Sweepers, Sergeant Majors, Striped Grunts, Caribbean Spiny Lobsters, Common Squat Lobsters, Sponge Brittle Stars, Rock-Boring Urchins
Dive 25 Hotspot Watch: 
Spotted Spiny Lobster, Glassy Sweeper

Airport Caves

Location: 
Utila, South East
Highlights: 
Shallow Caves and swim throughs

DIVE BRIEF: Airport Caves was named for its proximity to the island’s old airport and its caves and sand channels. The reef’s wall starts at 15ft and descends to 40 ft where the sandy bottom gradually goes down to more than 120 ft. In both directions there are sand channels that lead you to the entrance of different caves. Going West at 15ft, a diver will discover one of the site’s interesting points, a U- shaped sand channel that takes you to the entrance and exit of the site’s biggest tunnel.

Normal Visibility: 
20metres
Currents: 
Caribbean Light
Site Depth: 
0metres
30metres
Divesite Difficulty : 
Easy (Open Water)
Time to Site : 
15minutes
Common Marine Life Sightings: 
Scorpion Fish, Yellow Stingrays, Glassy Sweeper, Shy Hamlet, Longlure Frogfish, Queen Angelfish, Northern Stargazers, Green Morays, Rock Beauty, Measled Cowries
Dive 25 Hotspot Watch: 
Channel Clinging Crab, Sea Walnut, Caribbean Spiny Lobster
Dive Site Map: 

Halliburton Wreck

Location: 
Utila, South East
Highlights: 
The Wreck

DIVE BRIEF: With a length of 35metres, a width of 8 metres and a height of 18m this boat is big! It was a Cargo Ship until 1998 when it was decided that it would be sunk to create a wreck dive and an ecosystem that would add and complete Utila’s diverse underwater world. The wreck lies on a sandy bottom at 100ft. The port side is next to coral formations that head north and gradual ascend to the reef at the lighthouse. The east buoy descends directly to the bow and the west buoy takes us to the stern of the boat.

Dive Site Photo: 
Normal Visibility: 
15metres
Currents: 
Still to Caribbean Light
Site Depth: 
22metres
35metres
Divesite Difficulty : 
Easy to Advanced (Advanced Open Water)
Time to Site : 
5minutes
Common Marine Life Sightings: 
Breaded Fireworm, Tiger Grouper, Southern Sennet, Black Grouper, Corkscrew Anemone, Flameback Angelfish, Blue Tang, Pore Rope Sponge, Atlantic Thorny-oyster, Yellow Pencil Coral.
Dive 25 Hotspot Watch: 
Green Moray, Queen Angelfish, Porcupine Fish
Dive Site Map: 
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