The Caribbean

TOBAGO

Wild diving where the Atlantic meets the Caribbean

Just 70 miles from Venezuela, and still little known to most travellers, lies the tropical island of Tobago. Only 25 miles long and 7 miles wide, it is separated from its sister island of Trinidad by a channel of less than 20 miles across.

Sometimes deep green, sometimes bright blue, the waters surrounding Tobago are full of nutrients washed down from the Orinoco estuary. In these rich seas, vast quantities of plankton thrive and in their turn support Tobago’s complex marine community. Both fringing and patch reefs surround the island. Hard and soft corals compete vigorously for space on every available firm surface, providing cover for numerous multi-coloured tropical fish. Huge Manta Rays, Nurse Sharks and Tarpon are all found from time to time at the dive sites we visit.

The calm Caribbean, the powerful forces of the open Atlantic and the Guyanese current flowing from South America create a unique series of influences and mean that current is always present to some degree at many of the dive sites. Occasionally it can be challenging, but it is always manageable. Many excellent and ‘mill pond’ calm dive sites are to be found along the Caribbean coast, but some people feel that it is in the high current zones where Tobago’s diving reaches its zenith! By choosing Tobago as your holiday destination you can dive both the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, sometimes both in one day aboard top-quality liveaboard, Wind Dancer!