Caribbean Sea Dive Sites
The Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea is a tropical sea, part of The Atlantic Ocean and South East of The Gulf of Mexico. It is one of the largest salt water seas and has a total area of 1.6 million square miles and its deepest point is The Cayman Trough, situated between Cuba and Jamaica, at 7,686 m (25,220 ft) below sea level.
A map of Caribbean Dive Sites
The name, Caribbean, comes from a tribe of American Indians called The Caribs that once inhabited the area at the time the Europeans first sailed there.
Dive Sites
There are many good dive sites in The Caribbean, some of the best include; The Bahamas,
Belize, The Cayman Islands, Cozumel Island and The Cenotes on The Yucatan Peninsula, Cuba, The Florida Keys and The Turks and Caicos Islands. More guides to these sites will follow soon.
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The Caribbean is a relatively enclosed sea, with the only major entry points for water from other Oceans being the Anegada Passage, between The Virgin Islands and The Lesser Antilles, and The Windward passage between Cuba and Haiti; because of this the sea tends to be warm as the cooler waters from The Atlantic are prevented from circulating in.
It has been reported that there are over 9 hundred species of fish, which is a much lower number than some other Oceans such as the Pacific. The Caribbean is also not noted for its coral either, but it makes up for this in sponges, which are amongst the most impressive in the world.
It is a popular diving area for divers from the USA and it has a good diving community and infrastructure to cope with all levels of ability. The dive types vary from shallow to deep drift dives and it is a good place to see the big fish and mammals such as different species of shark and dolphins.
