Unlimited scuba at theCaribbean's best dive sites

If you're a scuba diver, or if you want to learn how to do it, Beaches Resorts are the place for you. (Check it out at Beaches.com)

Here's what they offer:

Beaches includes the most comprehensive resort scuba diving program anywhere in the Caribbean. For new divers, they offer a resort course (US$70) which will have divers in .the water by the next day If you're already a certified scuba enthusiast, you can enjoy up to two dives daily. Beaches features top-of-the-line, purpose built boats and their scuba staff is fully PADI certified.

Here's the dive sites at Beaches Negril:

Middle Shoal Reef
Depth: 30 ft.
One of the most frequently visited 30' dive sites. Used mainly for Beaches' PADI introductory (Resort) Scuba Course dive #1. Nice coral reef to 30' sand bed. Very large aggregation of French grunts at cleaning stations on coral heads. Squirrel fish aggregations at other cleaning sites. Turtles often seen on the edge of a sand bed. Many blue chromis, creole wrans, parrots, etc.

Bloody Bay
Depth: 30 ft.
Another dive site used for their Resort's course divers on training dive #1. The healthy coral heads rise as far as 20' from the bottom of Bloody Bay. Some extremely large spiny puffers! occasional sea horse.

Middle Shoal Reef
Depth: 90 ft.
There is a small single engine plane located at this site at a depth of 90'. This dive is known for spade fish and barracuda. Beautiful coral, barrel, sponge, gorgonialns, etc. Further out there is drop off to 200'.

Ballards Reef
Depth: 90 ft.
This outer reef is hard to find but well worth it. The reef is relatively untouched. Large kingfish and the occasional jew fish can be found. The outside of the reef drops off to the deep.

Gallery
Depth: 30 ft.
Interesting overhangs and ledges. Lots of places to explore. Large crabs, turtles, nurse sharks, sting rays, morays, black coral and the occasional Sea Horse are often seen here.

Shallow Plane
Depth: 55 ft.
Located south of the edge of the reef, on sand. Soldier fish hand out at the plane. A long snout butterfly fish has come up from the depths to make the back seat of the plane its home. The reef itself if full of overhangs, ledges, caverns, sponges, seaferns and coral. Sting Rays are very common here.

The Arches
Depth: 33 ft.
Beaches often combinse the shallow plane with this 33' dive. There are many overhangs and ledges. Nurse sharks and very large sting rays are common. Swim through the arches and notice the purple and yellow fairy bassets. They align themselves to the substratum and are upside down on the ceilings of the arches and caverns.

King Fish Point
Depth: 90 ft.
This beautiful deep dive goes outward through spectacular coral formations to a depth of 90' and then the reef drops to sand flats at 130'. Turtles are seen quite often. Nurse sharks, enormous barrel sponges and large gorgonialns are also seen.

Booby Cay
Depth: 30 ft.
The island has been almost surrounded with mooring buoys installed by the Negril Coral Reef Preservation Society with the help of Reef Relief from Florida, Sandals Negril and many more. Weather dictates which side of the island to use. The North West side has some healthy Elk Horn Coral near the surface and a lot of very large Bloody Bay coral heads.

There are plenty more dive sites there, for the skilled diver, such as a cave and cavern site. DIVING IN CAVERNS AND CAVES ARE ONLY FOR THOSE DIVERS PROPERLY TRAINED IN THIS TYPE OF DIVING.