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Caribbean

The Caribbean has something to offer everyone and one of our most popular dive holiday regions after the Red Sea. For many, the Caribbean epitomizes luxury in an idyllic setting, for diving holidays it offers much more with a wide choice of dive resorts perfect for all.

Surprising and enchanting, visit underwater sculpture parks, varied wreck dives & coral gardens, fast and thrilling drift dives & cave diving. The Caribbean Sea is a good choice for the novice & the technical diver with wide range of shore and boat dive sites, resorts, dive centers & liveaboards.

Each island has an individual character and feeling but always offering a warm, friendly welcome, exotic food, tropical fruit and fresh seafood. Mix this up with a sundowner and lively music against a backdrop of cobalt blue skies and you’ll want to return before you leave.

Let us help you decide with our round up of the best of the Caribbean below.

Bonaire

Located some 50 miles off the coast of Venezuela is the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire. It lies outside the hurricane belt and enjoys almost continuous sunshine and great weather throughout the year with constant light wind and average air temperatures of 27C. Water temperatures vary little at 24C and average visibility is 30-40m. All the...

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Cayman Islands

Nestled in calm, turquoise waters in the western Caribbean, just 480 miles south of Miami, lies the peaceful British Overseas Territory known as the Cayman Islands. Consisting of three islands; Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman. This is one of the world's top dive destinations, with more than 200 dive sites marked with moorings, warm,...

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Dominica

A small island in the Antilles chain of the Caribbean and not to be confused with the Dominican Republic. It was the last British colony and gained independence in 1978. It has since become a nature lovers paradise. Ecologically minded, the islanders have created three marine reserves of which Soufriere is the most well known. The small fee to...

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Grenada

Grenada is the most southerly of the Windward islands sitting north of Trinidad. Commonly known as the Spice Island, the capital St George has long been associated with nutmeg production. This is a beautiful island with a great deal of the mountainous interior given over to rainforest with waterfalls and beautiful varieties tropical plants and...

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St Kitts

Intoxicating natural beauty, sunny skies, warm waters and white sandy beaches combine to make St. Kitts one of the most seductive spots in the Caribbean. Christopher Columbus first spotted St. Kitts in 1493. Later, the growth of the sugar trade led to an advanced and luxurious development that is among the best in the Colonial Caribbean....

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St Lucia

Located towards the centre of the Windward Islands chain at the eastern edge of the Caribbean Sea, the tear drop-shaped island is some 27 miles long. St Lucia is famed for it’s picturesque peaks, the Pitons. It is also worth taking a tour of the interior of the island with beautiful views, rainforest walks, waterfalls and the sulphurous...

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Tobago

One of the peaks of Caribbean diving and the perfect location for your dive holiday - Tobago. Located off South American shores, just north east of Trinidad, this tiny island republic is one of the most southerly in the Caribbean chain. Tobago is only 27 miles long and 6 miles across at its widest point, allows easily exploration of the sites....

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Turks & Caicos

A British Crown Colony consisting of 40 islands lying in the tropical Atlantic south east of the Bahamas. Only eight of the islands are inhabited. The diving is some of the best in the Caribbean with the sheer walls of Providenciales, West Caicos and remote French Cay host to enormous Orange Elephant Ear Sponges, sprawling sea fans and an...

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