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Best Dive Sites of Anguilla

Written by Leisure Pro Staff
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Published on July 7, 2013

Anguilla: an island paradise set along awe-inspiring white coral sands and the beautiful blue waters of the Caribbean. On land, the sights, sounds, and experiences can be quite exotic and invigorating, offering a view into a life that is far from ordinary for most people. But within the island nation’s tropical waters, an incomparable paradise awaits divers, snorkelers, and anyone else who enjoys the world beneath the surface of the sea.

Diving off the coasts of Anguilla is a pleasure pursuit well known to much of the SCUBA diving world. These are just some of the best dive sites Anguilla has to offer, but certainly not the only sites worth pursuing. But just to get you started on your adventure, we bring you the following beautiful dive sites.

Dog Island

Dog Island is a great dive site. If you like an experience that makes you feel like you’re in a place that is mostly void of other people and set aside from everything else, this is the spot for you. This is one of the nation’s least visited, yet most beautiful areas. The waters here are crystal clear and the sea life abundant and colorful. Here, divers can really feel uninhibited by the traffic of many other dive sites.

Blowing Rock

Blowing Rock, one of the more popular dive sites of Anguilla, arguably hosts the most accessibility to the largest scale of sea life anywhere around the main island. Be prepared for all sorts of exotic underwater encounters in this incredibly crystalline water. In one excursion here, it’s not uncommon to come in contact with barracuda, eels, reef sharks, lobsters, and more colorful species of fish. The corals in this area typically don’t exceed 40 feet in depth, making this a great dive site for beginners and experienced divers alike.

M.V. Catheley Wreck Site

Yet another of the great dive sites of Anguilla is the wreck site of the M.V. Catheley. This ship was only recently sunk but is nonetheless a great draw for diving enthusiasts and sea-life alike. Explorers revel in scouting the 110-foot long wreck, tropical inhabitants such as eels, bar jacks, stingrays, and lobsters, the amazing, area coral, and more.

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