Arc du Vero

Arc du Vero is a shallow labyrinth of coral-arched swim-throughs — the kind of site that turns certified divers into children, because every passage opens onto...

Chinatown

Chinatown spreads off Frigate Island in the Sandy Island group: a friendly, well-decorated slope that falls from 8 m to 23 m and carries the dense, busy charact...

Divers Surprise

Divers Surprise earns its name by holding something back: the first half is a gentle sandy slope to 7 m, then the bottom falls away into a proper wall-run down...

Gun Point Ridge

Gun Point Ridge sits past the last spit of Carriacou, where the seabed breaks into a quilt of reef patches and sand lanes running out to 28 m — and the lionfish...

Jack-o'-DAN West

Jack-o'-DAN West takes the same leeward reef garden and turns the anchor off: the boat stops, divers roll backward onto an 8 m coral finger, and a mild drift do...

Jack-o'-DAN

Jack-o'-DAN is the site Carriacou operators trust with first dives: a 7-20 m reef garden on the island's leeward side where conditions are almost always flat, t...

Sister Rocks (Barracuda Point)

The Sister Rocks are a cluster of reef-topped rises off Carriacou's north-east, and their best-known face earns the name Barracuda Point: a clean slope from 9 m...

Tugboat Boris

Carriacou's answer to the wreck question is the Boris: a 30 m tugboat sunk on purpose off West Side and now a fully colonised hull in 13-26 m of water, sized pe...

Westsider Wreck

Sunk in 2004 as Carriacou's first deliberate artificial reef, the Westsider lies nearby the Boris in shallower water — twenty years on, she has settled into the...

Carriacou eats marine and simple: char-grilled lobster and snapper at the West Side beach bars, callaloo and curry goat in the guesthouse kitchens, and the famous sandbar grill lunches on Sandy Island that turn a boat day into a picnic. Petite Martinique's few kitchens cook what was landed that morning; asking what's fresh is the correct order. On Carriacou the grill houses serve whatever the day-boats bring in, and the nutmeg everything, oil jack (soursop) and local beers are island signatures.

Harley's Bay Villas & Spa

Anastasia Ocean Front Apartments

Mangrove Hotel

Coco Cottage

Thirty-seven kilometres north of Grenada, the sister islands trade the main island's wreck fame for something rarer: thirty-plus dive sites packed into the Sandy Island/Oyster Bed Marine Protected Area, where pristine coral gardens, seamount slopes and gentle drifts run in water that feels private. Carriacou's leeward coast stays flat when the main island blows, the MPA's moorings keep anchors off the coral, and the little sister Petite Martinique - a bare two kilometres of boat-building island - extends the same protected water to its own doorstep. Grenada sits on the southern edge of the Caribbean plate, where a volcanic core and a shelf that drops away steeply from the southwest coast put walls, pinnacles and wrecks within a short boat ride of every base. Sister Rocks and Barracuda Point lead the list, with the sheltered gardens of Jack-o'-DAN and the swim-through playground of Arc du Vero filling the calm-water hours between. The second tier is what makes a week: Deep Blue's wall off the Sisters, Bogles Ridge, Valans Wall, Tropical Hill, Lime Kiln, the Coral Nursery restoration site, the Mabouya Garden and its whirlpool, Pagodas and La Jete down the leeward side, and the Petite Martinique-adjacent ground at Isle de Rhone, Petite Bacaye and Fort Judy - a list long enough that no two operators run the same week. Trade winds blow almost constant over the Caribbean, and it is their lulls and builds that set the daily diving schedule around Grenada. Water temperature stays in the high twenties year-round and the island sits outside the main hurricane belt, so the dive boats run twelve months a year.

Carriacou & Petite Martinique

Carriacou is a 90-minute fast ferry from St George's or a short flight to Lauriston Airport, and Petite Martinique sits a further hop by local boat - most divers do the ferry-hop as part of a Grenada week or book a liveaboard that anchors the circuit. On the island, Deefer Diving and Lumbadive (formerly ScubaTech) run the boat fleet from West Side, and MPA mooring fees are collected through your dive shop. The leeward sites stay diveable almost every day of the year; only the north and east exposures close when the trades really blow.

Dive Sites in Carriacou & Petite Martinique