Bequia Dive Sites
Bequia's dive sites offers relaxing reefs, interesting wrecks, wall dives and fast drifts - the perfect mix to suit everyone!
Bequia’s dive sites offers relaxing reefs, interesting wrecks, wall dives and fast drifts – the perfect mix to suit everyone! Our dive sites range from 5m/15ft down to 40m/130ft. The marine life is abundant with breeding areas, cleaning stations and critter hideouts. Our fish life is commonly small to medium in size (but we do get the occasional larger visitor!)
Dive Sites
24 dive sites to explore
Bequia is surrounded by a fringing coral reef teeming with diverse aquatic life, complimented by four wrecks, swim-throughs, walls and a cave. All dive sites are very easily accessible.
We operate two spacious 30′ custom-built dive boats!
We operate two spacious 30ft / 9m custom-built dive boats, shaded by full awnings to keep you out of the sun. Our boats are stable and large enough to comfortably accommodate dive groups with camera equipment. A dive platform provides a wide base with drop down ladders for easy exits. The boat crew is always on hand to assist divers and equipment in and out of the water.
The dive boat dock is seconds away from the dive center, minutes from Plantation House and close to Gingerbread’s waterfront suites.
A favourite site for many divers as this dive can be dived at a multitude of depths between 12m/40ft and 30m/100ft. The start of the dive is a sloping vibrant reef down to sand at 15m/50ft. The reef is overflowing with trunkfish, eels, damselfish, trumpetfish, french angels and spotted drums. Garden eels can be seen if you look out over the sand as well as peacock flounder and scorpionfish.The middle section of this dive is a stunning array of huge 30 ft boulders that provide swim-throughs and the opportunity to find shy nurse sharks. Keep your eyes open for eagle rays, barracuda and turtles cruising past in the open! This site has fixed moorings at both ends of the dive.
Our closest dive site, this is a great dive for both beginners and intermediate divers. Starting in the sheltered Rocky Bay you make your way along the reef which gradually gets deeper. This is a breeding site for many marine species so divers can see a variety of juveniles circling around the reef.Large patches of purple eggs are protected from the pesky butterflyfish and filefish by boisterous sergeant majors. Blue creole wrasse stream through the reef alongside a myriad of parrotfish, yellowtail snapper, french grunts and damselfish. Keep your eyes peeled for octopus, porcupinefish and spiny lobster hiding in the rocks. Don't forget to peek into the series of caves at the end of the dive to see spotted moray and squirrelfish. The dive ends at the mooring after the cardinal marker. This is a super dive for macro photographers.
This site can be dived either way depending on the prevailing currents. This is a steeply sloping reef starting at 5m/15ft and descending down to the sandy sea floor. Spiny lobster are abundant under the stunning coral heads and spotted drum fish flit around and try to hide from divers.Barracuda stalk the reef edge where scorpionfish camouflage themselves, lying in wait for their next meal. Nimble spray crabs shelter behind sea urchin with the juvenile trunkfish seeking protection. Schools of southern sennet, chromis and jacks frequent this reef.
The Stratmann tug is an interesting wreck to explore for intermediate divers and ends with the beautiful Devil's Table reef. The stern sits on the sand in 18m/60ft, surrounded by shy garden eels and tiny yellow-headed jawfish peeking out of their holes. Slipper lobster and french angelfish can be seen at the propeller, while schools of french grunts circle overhead. Look out over the turtle grass to spot turtles and maybe the lone ray. Around the bow you can spot coral banded shrimp, purple cleaner shrimp and if you look upwards, shoals of fast moving silver fish avoiding the great barracuda. Divers can look into the portholes and hatches of the tug for green moray. Squirrelfish and glasseye loiter in the cargo holds. As you cross the turtle grass towards the wreck, look out for the steel girders where moray and crabs lurk and red snapping shrimp hide in the corkscrew anemones.
Intermediate divers start at the frogfish haven of 'Flat Rock' and gently work their way down the steep reef slope to the sandy bottom. This is an enjoyable drift dive where Queen Triggerfish have been spotted and the azure vase corals stand out against the pink, purple and yellow sponges.The reef life is healthy and big schools of french grunts and blue creole wrasse can be seen. Expect morays, trumpetfish, banded coral shrimp and trunkfish galore! Fans and whip corals form a flatter section of the Robyn's Reef (max 21m/70ft) towards the end where barracudas lurk and honeycomb cowfish hide. Look above you for jacks, yellow-tail snapper and tuna. Reported as unseen in our area Robyn's Reef is home to approximately 12 giraffe garden eels.
A truly memorable dive for intermediate divers along a healthy, vibrant reef which starts at 7m/25ft and drops to 25m/82ft. This site is dived depending on the current. Look on the large boulders for frogfish next to the colourful sponges and fans.Filefish, trumpetfish, trunkfish and scrawled cowfish flit around the reef while morays and spiny lobster hide under the coral heads. Keep a look out for bumblebee-like juvenile trunkfish and elegant spotted drumfish. Blue, pink and purple vase corals shelter peppermint shrimp whilst flamingo tongues add detrimental colour to the gorgonian fans. Barracuda and cero cruise up and down the reef and maybe the odd turtle or ray if you are lucky.
Q & A
We have all of the typical Caribbean fish here in Bequia; schools of grunts, snapper, often we find moray eels, lobsters, crabs and cleaner shrimp. Porcupine fish, parrotfish, filefish and cowfish are commonly sighted on our coral gardens. We can encounter southern stingrays, eagle rays or turtles at some of our deeper sites. For those wanting to see some of the smaller things we can sometimes spot the masters of camouflage; seahorses and frogfish!
We enjoy year round diving here in Bequia, the minimum water temperature in Winter is 78F / 25C and the maximum in Summer is 86F / 30C.
Varies with currents between 60-165ft / 20-50m.
From July until November, heavier rains are possible. The remaining time it is very pleasant and occasionally we have a cooling shower every once in a while.
You are more than welcome to bring your own dive gear and we can store this for you at the shop in-between dives. If you only require tank and weights from us you can receive a 10% discount off the price of your dives. We can also provide you with all of the gear if you need at no extra charge (except a dive computer which is available at a surcharge).
Our sites are within a 5 minute boat ride up to 25 minutes, depending on which site we are going to and we choose the dive site on the morning of the dives according to the weather conditions.
Most of the reefs, wrecks and walls are offshore and not within reach from the shore, so shore diving is not something that we offer.