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A bright yellow frogfish perched among yellow-brown tube sponges, its small eye ringed in orange — St. Vincent

St. Vincent · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Wall · Reef

Anchor Reef

An 18th-century anchor buried in the reef that gives the site its name

Area photo: Barry Peters from Greer, SC · CC BY 2.0

A reef halfway up St. Vincent's leeward coast, named for an 18th-century anchor buried in its coral and voted one of the top 100 dive sites in the world. The dive starts on reef in the shallows and follows a wall-like peninsula down, with swim-throughs and a coral reef formation along the way.

Where it is and how deep

Depth profile of Anchor Reef: typical dive 9–37 m (30–121 ft) 18 m · Open Water30 m · Advanced40 m · Recreational limit9 m37 mtypical dive
Depths on a shared scale to 50 m (164 ft); dashed lines mark common certification limits.

No published position for this site — the map shows St. Vincent and its other sites; operators know the mooring.

The dive

The reef begins at 9 m (30 ft) and then falls away as a wall-like peninsula to 37 m (120 ft). Divers follow the wall into a maze of large rocks, caves and swim-throughs over the coral reef formation, and the old anchor lies buried within the reef itself.

The site sits in a jungly bay, with black corals on the rock. Frogfish in several shades, longsnout seahorses, porcelain two-spot octopus and goldentail morays all turn up here.

Marine life and season

  • Frogfish
  • Octopus & cuttlefish
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Season follows St. Vincent: No month stands out for the diving; the rainy season runs May to November, and hurricanes are a risk from July to October.

Sources

  1. Diving & Watersports — Discover SVG
  2. Best dive sites in the world — iExplore
  3. Dive Sites — Ministry of Tourism, SVG
  4. St. Vincent and The Grenadines — Scuba Diving

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