Bianca C

The Bianca C is the dive most people book Grenada for: a 600-foot Italian ocean liner that caught fire and sank in 1961 while in port, and today stands bolt upr...

Hema

The Hema sank in 1980 and has spent four decades becoming a reef: her shallow end is a cauliflower of hard coral at 12 m while the cargo holds and stern drop to...

MV Shakeem

The MV Shakeem is one of the hard-working members of Grenada's wreck fleet: a vessel laid down in comfortable recreational water on the southwest coast, her dec...

MV Tyrrel Bay

The MV Tyrrel Bay was prepared with real care: stripped, cleaned and set upright on the sand off the edge of Boss Reef inside the Grand Anse Marine Protected Ar...

Veronica L

The Veronica L is everything the Bianca C is not: shallow, warm, easy and utterly covered in life. This 131-foot cargo freighter was scuttled on purpose in the...

The harbour eats old-Caribbean: breakfast of oild sardines and fried bake on the Carenage steps, grilled dolphin or snapper with plantain and provision at the Grand Anse beach bars, and St George's curry houses for the evening wind-down. Most wreck-boat crews will point you at the market stalls where the fish they serve you was bought that morning. 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.

Carenage Guest House

True Blue Bay Resort & Marina

Sunset Marine Hotel

Grand Anse Marriott

Grenada is the shipwreck capital of the Caribbean, and the fleet assembled off the southwest coast and inside St George's Harbour is the reason: a burned 600-foot ocean liner standing upright at 50 m, a deliberately-scuttled cargo ship in a swimming-pool 16 m, a 1980s freighter from shallow bow to dark stern, and a purpose-prepped modern wreck you can tour room by room. Few islands anywhere can stack this many complete, diveable, colonised hulls in one day's sailing. 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. The wreck dive season is the calendar itself - the harbour hulls stay diveable in almost any weather, and the Bianca C's deep silhouette rewards every return as the coral crust thickens. Around them circle the other names divers cross the Atlantic for: the freighter Shakeem on her side in the MPA, the island's little tug and lighter wrecks off Carriacou, and the half-a-dozen hulls, from the Hildur to the Persia's reef leftovers, that locals still name from memory even where the sea has taken most of the structure. 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.

Grenada – Wrecks (Southwest & St George's Harbour)

Every wreck on this list sits within twenty minutes of the southwest harbour bases, and the whole fleet is boat-only from the St George's-area moorings and Grand Anse launches. Operators build fixed two-wreck and three-wreck circuits around the harbour hulls and slot the Bianca C as a dedicated deep morning when the surface lies flat. Wreck-penetration specialists should book with shops advertising wreck-guided trips, since the open rooms and hold mouths differ wildly in what they allow. The practical rhythm of a wreck week is depth discipline: the deep liners and freighters take a whole dive and a surface interval, so most divers pair one deep hull with a shallow coral-swamped wreck like the Veronica L and leave penetration for a dedicated, properly certified day.

Dive Sites in Grenada – Wrecks (Southwest & St George's Harbour)

Bianca C

Hema

MV Shakeem

MV Tyrrel Bay

Veronica L