Hema - Wrecks — Southwest & St George's Harbour, Grenada

Site Overview

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 toward 30 m, giving two very different dives on one hull. The contrast is the draw — batfish and angelfish pose in the coral shallows at the bow, while the deep, dark holds shelter groupers and veteran spiny lobster in the silted rooms. Work the bow at 12-18 m and let the line run down the superstructure to 30 m for the advanced contingent; the mid-hull crossover is the best air-sharing compromise. The site sits in Wrecks — Southwest & St George's Harbour, one of Grenada's core dive areas, with water at 27-29 °C and typical visibility of 15-25 m. Lies inside the St George's harbour approach, minutes from the waterfront — a rain-day saviour when the open coast is blown out. No plaque, no legend, just a well-grown old wreck doing quiet duty as one of the harbour's best reefs. 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.