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Scuba Diving & Snorkeling in Antigua

Scuba Diving, Snorkeling & Other Watersports -- The reefs that fringe Antigua are home to beautiful, brilliantly colored fish. Many of the island's beaches have clear, pure, calm waters that make for great snorkeling. The most popular, such as Dickenson Bay, have concessions where you can rent snorkel gear and other equipment if it isn't available from your hotel.

Sandals Grande Antigua Resort Scuba Diving & Snorkeling

Sandals Antigua includes the most comprehensive resort scuba diving program. And even if you've never dived before, our resort course will have you experiencing a whole new underwater world by the very next day. If you're already a certified scuba enthusiast, you can enjoy up to two dives daily.

Sandals Antigua offers some of the most exciting dive sites in the Lesser Antilles of the Caribbean. Each possesses a unique character with colorful marine life and pristine coral reefs. So take the plunge and explore the calmest, clearest waters anywhere on earth.

At Sandals Antigua, guests who are not certified or have never experienced scuba diving before can attend a resort course (extra cost) and become "Resort Certified."

Sandals Antigua Review:

Activities: Water sports are in high demand, I had trouble booking dives due to guests that were there for two weeks filling the dive schedule. I am open water certified by PADI, and I brought my own equipment and dive log. I had to show them my ability to complete basic skills before I could dive which I found odd. The dive I went on was fun. It was done off of Sandy Island, off the coast of Antigua, 35 feet deep. I saw a Hawksbill Turtle on the dive, lobsters, and moon jellyfish.

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Adventure Antigua - Adventure Antigua - Snorkelling tours exploring the reef, wildlife, and deserted islands of Antigua and Barbuda

Both Antigua and Barbuda in the Leeward Islands are almost completely surrounded by well-preserved coral reefs, walls, and shipwrecks. The southern and eastern coasts of Antigua and virtually the entire coast of Barbuda are surrounded by shelfs, providing excellent conditions for spectacular shallow diving and snorkeling. There is little or no current in most places, and the water temperature averages about 80 F (25 C). Underwater visibility ranges from 50 to 140 feet, and tropical marine plants and animals are diverse and plentiful. Snorkeling is possible at many of both islands' most beautiful beaches; one of Antigua's best-known offshore sites, Cades Reef, is now partly contained in a designated underwater park. Another popular destination is the wreck of the Andes, a three-masted merchant ship that sank in 1905 and now rests in less than thirty feet of water in (ironically enough) Deep Bay. Antigua's dive facilities are far superior to those available on smaller Barbuda, and so most of the sites that have been established as dive destinations are Antiguan. The southern and eastern coasts are considered to offer the most consistent diving; for more advanced divers, the ledge of Sunken Rock on the south coast is a popular site. Dive depths generally range from 25 to 80 feet and can reach 180 feet; distances from shore to site are in some cases no more than five minutes and at most 40 minutes away.