Dive· Antigua· Leeward Islands

DiveCarib (Falmouth Harbour)

17° 1.1′ N · 61° 46.2′ W

The south coast's main dive shop, based in the grounds of the National Sailing Academy on Falmouth Harbour, running moored and drift dives on the reefs, walls and wrecks between Falmouth and Mamora Bay.

St Martin, Anguilla & St BarthsAntigua & BarbudaGuadeloupe, Les Saintes & Dominica

Practical

Position is the OpenStreetMap 'Dive Carib Antigua' node beside the National Antigua Sailing Academy boatyard on Dockyard Drive. The tourism authority describes it as Antigua's only independent five-star PADI facility, offering guided boat dives, PADI courses, Discover Scuba, tec diving and yacht services; email divingantigua@gmail.com. DiveCarib says all its sites are within a 30-minute boat ride (most within 20), it keeps its own permanent moorings on about half of them and drift-dives the rest, and visibility usually exceeds 60 ft. Sites include Black's Point (10-30 ft, inside the Falmouth Harbour mouth, good in rough weather), Pillars of Hercules, Carib House, Red Rocks and Godzilla's Lair (35-75 ft, leeward of Falmouth), Rob's Reef (40-100 ft), Tarpon Alley, Nanton Point, Carpenters Rock, Stoney Cove, Sunken Rock, Barracuda Reef, the wreck of the yacht New Freedom (35-75 ft) and the wreck of the Montserrat, a scuttled former tug sitting upright in 130 ft about half a mile off the coast leeward of Falmouth (Advanced plus Deep and Nitrox certification, and a prior dive with them, required). Nitrox training offered. Note: Dockyard Divers in Nelson's Dockyard, the harbour's dive shop for more than 30 years, has closed (DiveCarib, citing its founder Tony Fincham).

Best for

Guided reef, wall and wreck diving from the English and Falmouth Harbour anchorages

Season

Year-round; exposed windward sites only in calm weather

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