Eillon Wreck – South Coast – Carlisle Bay Marine Park

Site Overview

The Eillon rounds out Carlisle Bay's cluster of wrecks as one of the deeper sites in the group, resting at around seventeen metres on the bay's southern edge. Her broken, coral-furred structure spreads across the sand in a mosaic of plates and beams that have become a proper artificial reef - a place where garden and green morays coil through the wreckage, clouds of small fish hang in the water column, and southern stingrays lie camouflaged on the sand around her. A little deeper and quieter than her shallow neighbours, the Eillon rewards methodical torch work and a good eye for the critters that have claimed her. Depths run from about 8 m at the shallowest point to 17 m at the deepest, with most of the dive spent near 15 m. Barbados is the easternmost Caribbean island, sitting where the Atlantic sweeps in to meet the calm Caribbean, and that convergence keeps its waters clear, warm and rich - the sheltered west and south coasts hold healthy reefs and a famed cluster of wrecks, turtles cruise the shallows year-round, and the deeper walls can turn up pelagics and the occasional shark. Conditions around Barbados vary with the season and tide, so confirm the day's plan with your local dive operator before you go