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All
of the dive sites indicated here are within the proposed Marine Park.
Lady G'diver has already taken the initiative to treat and respect the
dive areas as if they were an actual protected park. We appreciate your
respect of the underwater as well. The following are basic descriptions
of the various dive sites.
| Trident
Wall |
A
reef that begins at 60ft and drops as a wall to over 120ft. The wall
is approximately 250ft long and then the site levels out to outcroppings
of corrals and reefs. Plenty of barrel and vase sponge, black coral,
and numerous snapper varities and small juvenile fish. Good visibility
and minimal current.
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| Alligator
West |
A
shallow dive with coral outcroppings and minimal current. and ideal
training or novice dive site.
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| Alligator
Head |
The
begining of a long defined reef starting at approximately 50ft with
a coral floor and extending north into a forming of a wall on the
outside, the top at about 60ft and the floor drops to 160ft. Lots
of plant life with sea fans, underwater gorgornia, barrels, giant
tubes and vase sponges in florescent like colours, orange tubes and
large flower coral. Plenty of grouper, snapper, trigger fish, jacks,
barracuda, and numerous juviniles.
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| Alligator
Deep |
The
continuation of Alligator head but becoming more defined on the wall
and areas dropping off to over 160ft in debth. Same plant and fish
life, but the dropoff wiht excellent visibility is amazing to observe.
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| Alligator
long |
The
farthest point of Alligator reefs. A nicely defined ridge theat extends
for a comfortable dive at twenty minutes at 80ft to 90ft. We have
cultivated this reef for fish life and it is abundant. You are surrounded
by all the area fish to include a large school of adult spade angel
fish that will allow you to tag allong with their precision formation
drils.
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| Courtney's
Reef |
A
beautiful dive approximately 50ft to 70ft with rolling hills, long
sandy bottoms , and some nice canyons. All covered with spoonges,
sea whips, seafans, pilar coral, brain coral. Fished out by the locals
but the scenery offsets this. Porpoise and giant sea turtles often
come by for a visit through here and Fisherman's Reef.
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| Fisherma n's
Reef |
A
continuation of Courtney's reef as it comes into shallower debths.
A lot of deep canyons, swinm throughs, and a defined marking of the
reef dropping into a long sandy desert floor.
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| Bluehole |
A
shallow dive just north of Blue Lagoon. A thermocline and mineral
accumilation just at the surface from the fresh water spring makes
for some beautiful colour in this area. On good days, the visibility
is forever, and there are a rainbow of colours in the caral, sponge,
and plants due to the mineral deposits. Usually our friendly spotted
eagle ray will swim by. A lot of overhangs of sheet coral that makes
for great swimthroughs with dozens of finger like canyons running
perpendicular to the coast.
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| Dragon's
Mouth |
Right
at the entrance of Dragon Bay. Very shallow with mostly sandy floorand
no current to make for an excellent training or beginner site.
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| High
Point |
A
sloping plateau of rough starlet, pillar, and mountainous star coral
with a lot of various barrel sponges and seafans. The debth runs 60ft
to 80ft and follows a defined rim. Good visibility and little or no
current.
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| Fairy
Hill |
A
50ft ridge dropoff, drifting on over to a beautiful solitary pinicle
that rises from a floor of 120ft to a peak of 60ft. The pinnacle is
almost cylindrical with an average diameter of 60ft. It is teeming
with coral, plant colour, and many juvenile tropical fish. The dive
tour is completed bu going back to the ridge and continuing along
a defined reef varying from 50ft to 70ft. Slight current , usually
in the direction of the dive.
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| Two
Houses |
A
deep 70ft to 110ft, long sweeping defined corral ridge with a few
dead end canyons and a sandy floor. A nice sightseeing tour with brain
coral, elliptical star and green cactus coral, again, plenty of barrel
and giant tube sponge in all different colours.
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| Boston |
A
nice deep dive with outcroppings of coral, sandy bottoms, and no defined
ridge. But it offers an array of different coral, plant, and fish
life. A sereneplace to do a leisurely comfortable deep dive with little
or no current and god visibility. |
THINK ABOUT THIS! A FEW MILES OUT, THE FLOOR DROPS TO 24,714 FEET, OR
APPROXIMATELY 5 MILES DOWN. THE CAYMAN TRENCH, ONE OF THE DEEPEST POINTS
IN THE WORLD'S OCEAN.
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