Scuba Diving in the Caribbean

Flamingo Tongue Flood

There have been localized Flamingo tongue "blooms" in spots all over the Caribbean - Bonaire, St. Eustatius, and Mona Island, Puerto Rico to name a few. Are they making a comeback, or is this a sign of trouble?

Wreck Diving in Grenada: The Bianca ‘C’

Hello again my Scuba Jedi Friends. One of the most exciting dives of my life was on the Bianca C a mile of the coast off the Caribbean island of Grenada. Sitting upright at a maximum depth of 50 metres, this 600 meter long ship never fails to impress, and is listed as one of the top ten warm water wreck dives by many authorities and magazines. The Bianca C has had a chequered life and has actually sunk twice, once whilst being towed incomplete from the southern coast of France under the name of Merechal Petain to Port de Bouc near Marseilles in June 1944 where she was torpedoed by the Germans in August. When the hull was raised she was renamed La marseillaise and towed to La Toulon and then returned to La Ciotat and refitted as a Cruise ship. When completed she sailed to Yokohama . In 1957 given the name [...]

Diving in the Caribbean

Dreams of 32 degrees water amazing visibility, Wrecks, Drift, Dives, Biggest Brain Corals, the Caribbean has it all. Its where my Scuba life started sitting by a pool in Antigua along came my first instructor Carlo Constantini he took me through a try dive in the pool and I was hooked, next day my first discover scuba dive from Nelsons Dockyard , The pillars of Hercules I was amazed the coral was so fantastic small Nurse sharks stingrays, fish everywhere and this dive site was only three minutes from the harbor. Antigua is a beautiful place and Nelsons dockyard is a great place to dive from, I only did two dives in Antigua but ill never forget them, and I can highly recommend it for weeks diving. Tobago, now were talking fantastic drift dives fast and challenging at Speyside (Atlantic side) and more sedate on the Caribbean side I stayed [...]