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Setting the standard in BVI diving since 1975 Reservations: 1-800-848-7078 Phone: 284-495-5513 Fax: 284-495-5347 Email: Info@DiveBVI.com
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Dive BVI Dive Sites around Virgin Gorda
A submerged pinnacle rising to within 4 ft of the surface, this is a spectacular dive. Prolific sponge and soft corals give the reef tremendous color. Washed with strong currents, this brings in huge volumes of fish - look out for the large school of permit atop the pinnacle.
Located to the northeast of Mahoe Bay and Mango Bay in the lee of Virgin Gorda peak, this area has three separate moorings. Closest to the end of the point is the deeper location - the mooring lies in 25 ft of water and the reef slopes away to the west to a maximum of 70 ft. The sand at the bottom of the slope is visited by eagle rays and stingrays while the shallows around the mooring contain a number of swim-throughs and shallow grottos. The moorings closer to land are shallower (max 40 ft) and are made up of more grottos, archways and undercut coral heads.
A popular dive site trip from the Yacht Harbor, it makes an excellent 2nd dive after a trip to Ginger or Cooper Island. A shallow sandy bottom is decorated with a expanse of granite boulders similar to those found at The Baths, some rising to within 10 ft of the surface. An oasis in the middle of the ocean floor, it attracts some of the largest schools and varieties of reef fish anywhere in the BVI. Its lack of depth gives divers time to explore the ledges and holes between the boulders while admiring the schools of grunts (French, Spanish, bluestriped, tomtate), snappers (gray, mahogany, schoolmaster), chub, angelfish (Queen, French, Gray, Rock Beauty) and many others. An excellent area to look for lobster and eels, we are often treated to a visit from a stingray or nurse shark. Local currents can strengthen making the dive not always available.
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