Tobago top 10 dive sites

• Speyside

  • Japanese Gardens

    Depth: 80 feet
    Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate
    Charge your strobes for one of Tobago’s prettiest reefs. From 40 to 80 feet, this sloping bank of coral is covered with waving fields of soft corals and sponges.

  • Flying Manta

    Depth: 90 feet
    Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
    One of the best places on Tobago to encounter manta rays, this site is also a current thrill ride where creole wrasse, black durgon, angelfish and tiger grouper are your companions.

  • Bookends

    Depth: 80 feet
    Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
    From the nubs of black rock that break the surface, let the current carry you along a rich reef slope of hard and soft corals where the big tarpon stand guard.

  • Blackjack Hole

    Depth: 100 feet
    Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
    Located on the exposed southern wing of Little Tobago, expect woolly currents and choppy seas. The payoff: Atlantic pelagics including sharks, rays and dolphins.

• Charlotteville

  • London Bridge

    Depth: 110 feet
    Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
    A natural rock arch topping a fat ocean pinnacle rises up from 110 feet. Line up single-file to ride the surge through the center passage, or if the conditions are too rough for the eye, drop down to 80 feet and ride the prevailing current around canyons and folds of the pinnacle base.

  • The Sisters

    Depth: 130 feet
    Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
    Encrusted with low-profile reef growth of flattened brain and star coral formations, these pinnacles offer a maze of canyons and alpine slopes.

• Crown Point

  • Buccoo Reef

    Depth: 40
    Skill Level: Beginner
    This four-acre zone of shallow patch reef spills out of Buccoo Bay on the Caribbean side of the island’s southern tip. Also favored by snorkelers and glass-bottom boats, it’s an aquarium of corals inhabited by juvenile tropicals.

  • Mt. Irvine Wall

    Depth: 60 feet
    Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate
    Massive boulders that flake off from the shoreline cliffs form a shallow wall from 30 to 60 feet that’s alive with fish. Take a light to explore the crevices.

  • Flying Reef

    Depth: 40 to 80 feet
    Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
    You’ll reach take-off velocity as soon as you hit the westerly currents and, if you stay shallow, you’ll cover more than a mile of reef on a single tank.

  • Culloden Bay

    Depth: 40 feet
    Skill Level: Beginner
    Shaped like a nudibranch doing the Macarena, this U-bowed reef is fringed with fingers of spur-and-groove formations on its points.