South Caicos Scuba Diving

Editor's Comments

The diving surrounding South Caicos is excellent. Interesting reef formation and swim-through arches abound, and larger marine life, such as sharks, eagle rays, manta rays, and leatherback turtles are more common near South Caicos than at many of the other dive regions in the country.

5-star rating for Scuba Diving by Visit Turks and Caicos Islands

Diving the vibrant reefs.

Located on the east edge of the Caicos Islands subterranean plateau, South Caicos is recognized as having excellent diving, with vibrant reefs and wildlife, some decent wall sites, and many canyons, arches, and swim-through reef sites. The best of the accessible wreck sites, the Convair CV-440, is located nearby.

Dive Sites

Most of the South Caicos dive sites are a short 10-15 minute boat trip out from the main populated area of Cockburn Harbour and follow along the east and southeast coasts of Long Cay and South Caicos. Although the dive sites are a short ride out, the island really doesn’t offer great shore diving due to inaccessible (by road) coastlines and ocean conditions.

A number of spectacular yet remote dive sites, from northern East Caicos and Philips Reef to Ambergris Cay and Bush Cay, are accessible from South Caicos during good weather conditions, and even the sheer wall diving of Grand Turk is within boat range.

Nearly all of the main South Caicos Dive sites are in the Admiral Cockburn Land and Sea National Park, which includes Long Cay, Six Hills Cays, and Middleton Cay.

Dive Shops

With the closure of East Bay Resort, Reef Divers is no longer operating. As such, there are no dive shops on South Caicos at this time.

Scuba diving companies from Providenciales do occasionally arrange trips to South Caicos.