Home to the best beach in the world, breathtaking hues from inviting waters, and legendary diving, snorkelling and fishing, the Turks & Caicos Islands beckon you to an undiscovered Caribbean. Just a short flight from the east coast of the US, these islands are a tropical classic, a throwback in time where relaxation is unavoidable and rejuvenation ensured. The Turks and Caicos Island dive sites are said to be the best for the fact that it has the most unique geological land & ocean formation.
These islands are an ocean plateau set 6000 feet straight above the ocean floor. This plateau has created a large 3000 square mile bank or shelf that runs out to its surrounding edge - a world-class reef (perhaps a close third to Australia's barrier reef). At this place where the shallow turquoise waters of the Caicos bank intersect with the outer coral reefs, the ocean terrain drops drastically from a 45-foot depth to 6000 feet. This wall drop-off is drastic, sometimes beyond vertical with many walls having inverted cut profiles.
Combined with some of the most dramatic vertical wall diving in the world, also on offer are some of the most colorful reef systems, and bountiful tropical fish habitats. Providenciales diving , TCI's largest island, truly boasts a repertoire of the finest dive sites found anyhwere in the world, the Caribbean, and obviously the Bahamas. If a picture tells a thousand words, persons who have dived TCI now possess memories that speak volumes.
French Cay is a tiny Cay that was once used as a hideaway for pirates. It is now a bird sanctuary and located 40 minutes from our dock across the Caicos Bank. The wall runs in a East to West direction and therefore gets the sunlight all day resulting in especially large coral and sponges. The fish life is abundant and with frequent sightings of eagle rays, sharks and occasionally manta rays and hammerheads.
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