St. Vincent · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Muck & macro · Pinnacle · Night
Orca Point
Several types of seahorse and frogfish on a single dive
Area photo: Barry Peters from Greer, SC · CC BY 2.0
A critter site off St. Vincent in the bay used as the Treasure Cave setting for the first Pirates of the Caribbean film, full of small animals of every shape and size and a strong choice for night dives. Several types of seahorse, flamingo tongue snails, frogfish and crustaceans turn up on a typical dive, which makes it a productive ground for macro photography.
Where it is and how deep
No published position for this site — the map shows St. Vincent and its other sites; operators know the mooring.
The dive
A rock-strewn pinnacle breaks the surface inside a black sand bay, and the site descends from 6 to 30 m below it. The dive starts on the deep side at around 30 m and works back up the slope to the shallow boulders at 6 m, where fish swarm.
Marine life and season
- Frogfish
- Macro critters
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good | Good | Good | Good | Fair | Fair | Fair | Fair | Fair | Fair | Fair | Good |
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.
Dive videos
Orca Point, St. Vincent SCUBA Diving · pdb209 on YouTube
Sources
- St Vincent — SSI
- St. Vincent and The Grenadines — Scuba Diving
More dive sites in St. Vincent
Wall
An 18th-century anchor buried in the reef that gives the site its name
Cave & cavern
An underwater fissure into a coastal cave on the leeward shore
Wreck
Three shipwrecks on one dive, the oldest an 18th-century French frigate
Muck & macro
Torpedo rays and seahorses under Fort Duvernette
Wall
A drift along a leeward wall over the formations of Rock Fort
Similar dives elsewhere
Sunset and night muck dive on the volcano's western black sand
Soft coral and macro on a rock in the cold south of the park
Zebra crabs sheltering in the spines of purple heart urchins
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Black sand to 27 metres, at its best after dark