Dragon Bay

Dragon Bay is one of the original Grenada wall dives: a ridgeline of dark volcanic rock rising from a sandy bottom in deep channels, with the reef top cruising...

Flamingo Bay

Flamingo Bay is famed among local divers as the most fish-loaded water on Grenada: a shallow reef embayment that edges into a wall dropping to 21 m, and every i...

Grand Mal Wall

Grand Mal is the deep end of the southwest coast: the shelf simply stops, and a sunlit wall drops away into blue water past 30 m, its face broken by ledges, pin...

Happy Hill

Happy Hill is the bay where a lot of divers fall in love with diving: a protected, shallow embayment of coral heads, sand corridors and seagrass with almost no...

Molinere Underwater Sculpture Park

Installed in Molinere Bay in 2006 and widely recognised as the world's first underwater sculpture park, this site lets divers swim among dozens of life-size fig...

Purple Rain

Purple Rain earns its name honestly: above a spread of well-covered reef, clouds of purple Creole wrasse hang in the surge line so thick that divers describe it...

Whibby's Reef

Whibby's Reef is one of the dependable named stops on the west-coast tour: a well-grown reef of coral heads and sponge ridges with a couple of fun swim-throughs...

Grenada's southwest coast eats like a spice market with a fishing fleet: oild sardine run from the harbour boats, stewed Dover, fried plantain, callaloo and fish or breadfruit baked in nutmeg and thyme - the Spice Isle putting its namesakes on every plate. Beach bars on Grand Anse grill the day's catch while the hills inland grow cocoa, cinnamon and breadfruit that all end up on the same table. 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.

Grand Anse Marriott

Mount Cinnamon Resort

True Blue Bay Resort & Marina

Calabash Luxury Boutique Hotel

The sheltered Caribbean-facing crescent from St George's north to Gouyave carries the heart of Grenada's diving: calm water most days of the year, a short boat to everything, and a concentration of walls, reef gardens, the world's first underwater sculpture park and the island's fishiest bays anywhere on the leeward coast. 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. Molinere Bay's sunken figures, the wrasse tornadoes of Flamingo Bay and the volcanic channels of Dragon Bay all sit within minutes of each other, so a two-tank day can pair an art dive with an icon and still be back for lunch. Shore-access dives at Purple Rain and Whibbles keep the coast affordable for divers without a boat booking, while the deep downscape of Grand Mal Wall and the fish-swamped channel of Rainbow Run reward the boats that push a little further north. 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 – Southwest Coast (Caribbean Side)

Most visitors fly into Maurice Bishop International Airport at Point Salines, minutes along the coast road from every southwest base; the dive fleet launches from Grand Anse, Prickly Bay and the St George's-area moorings and reaches almost every site in 10-20 minutes. Operators run scheduled two-tank mornings and afternoon trips, and the whole coast is close enough that base choice is about hotels, not diving. The exposed Caribbean-side bays can build an afternoon chop, so the trade is to run the deeper and exposed sites early and save the sheltered bays for later. Shore-entry is genuinely viable at several points - Purple Rain off the Grand Anse/Gouyave road and the Happy Hill shore dive mean a diver with a taxi and a buddy can fill a day without booking a boat at all.