Tobago Diving is Something Special


Here are some favorite Tobago dives:

Special -- 30-100 feet -- South of Little Tobago is a small rock that offers interesting underwater formations and lots of fish life. It is predominately a rocky slope with a variety of intriguing contours and ridges. Beautiful black coral trees and sea fans adorn this area as well as the large barrel and vase sponges in many interesting shapes. A school of rainbow runners circles overhead just as a big school of horseye jacks splits them apart and swirls around above us in all directions. Row after row of blue creole wrasse pass by seemingly ignoring the divers. We see a hawksbill turtle swimming up ahead and try to sneak up on it. It swims over the ridge and settles down in a swail on top of the reef. We gingerly ascend to peer over the ridge, it sees us and takes off again, but not before we’re able to photograph it. A big green moray eel is half out of his hole in the side of the ledge looking at us looking at him. He too rewards us with some nice photo smiles. Just up ahead we see a big lobster out from under a coral head and right next to him is a spotted moray out swimming! He dives into his hole and turns around to peek at us still hovering overhead. The ever present large queen, french, and gray angelfish are with us again today. Schools of brown chromis and black durgons flutter in front of our masks the whole dive. Nice sponge growth features purple, yellow, and green rope sponges, yellow tube sponges, orange encrusting sponge, large barrel sponges and amongst them all the largest porcupinefish we’ve ever seen.

Blackjack Hole -- 30-90 feet -- On the south side of Little Tobago is a sloping reef from the southeast corner. At certain times of the year large schools of jacks are seen here, as well as manta rays. A thick covering of finger and pencil coral marks one area of this reef. Schools of wrasse and chromis buzz about as pairs of butterflyfish feed on the coral. The slope is a montage of coral, sponges, and gorgonians. Flattened plate coral cascades down the reef side and big brain corals increase in numbers as you drift west. Black durgons, parrotfish, filefish, and green moray eels abound on this dive. At the headland marking the

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