Category: Bimini Islands
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Victory Reef
Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Bimini Islands GPS Coordinates Victory Reef is a five-mile stretch of reef line off of North and South Cat Cay. Within the reef system are several fantastic divespots. Many divers consider the Victories to be one of the best dives in all the Caribbean. The reef runs along…
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Turtle Rocks, South
Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Bimini Islands GPS Coordinates Turtle Rocks is one of the most popular dive sites in Bimini. Don’t expect to see turtles here; this reef earned the name Turtle rocks for the large brain corals that peek out of the water at low tide. The corals look like the…
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Turtle Rocks, North
Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Bimini Islands GPS Coordinates Turtle Rocks is one of the most popular snorkel and dive sites in Bimini. Don’t expect to see turtles here; this reef earned the name Turtle rocks for the large brain corals that peek out of the water at low tide. The corals look…
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Tuna Alley
Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Bimini Islands GPS Coordinates The Tuna Alley is often called one of the best dive sites in all of the Caribbean. It is a pristine, healthy reef system off of North Cat Cay, one of the Bimini Islands. Magnificent, high profile corals have formed walls at 45 feet…
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The Strip / The Line
Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Bimini Islands GPS Coordinates Just north of the channel between South and North Bimini is a narrow reef known as The Strip or Line. Plenty of marine life is packed onto this skinny strip of coral heads. It is a very colorful dive day or night. The Strip…
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Sapona
Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Bimini Islands GPS Coordinates The 270-foot Sapona was built by Henry Ford in 1911. She served as a troop transport for just one trip during World War I. After the war, the Sapona was used by rumrunners between the Bahamas and Florida during Prohibition. Some say she was…
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Rainbow Reef
Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Bimini Islands GPS Coordinates One of the most colorful, shallow reefs in Bimini is the Rainbow Reef. Shallow reefs are great nurseries for young fish. Expect to see juvenile damselfish, sergeant majors and other tropicals hiding among the ledges. Look closely and you may see fish guarding a…
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Nodules / Nodule Wall
Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Bimini Islands GPS Coordinates The Bahamas lie along the edge of the continental shelf and are well-known for spectacular wall dives. Generally these dives are all over 100 feet, but at the Nodules, divers can reach the wall at 75 feet. The flat surface can be explored at…
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Moray Alley
Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Bimini Islands GPS Coordinates This site off of North Bimini is appropriately named as many divers report interacting with the green moray eels that make this reef their home. But even if you don’t spot a moray, there are plenty of beautiful fish to see. There are parrotfish,…
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Little Caverns
Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Bimini Islands GPS Coordinates Little Caverns is a good intermediate dive off of North Bimini. The greatest depth is 80 feet at the bottom of a coral canyon. Huge mountains of coral heads and sponge formations grow up from a white sandy bottom. There are small tunnels and…