LIVEABOARD DIVING IN North Creek

North Creek At the north point of the Grand Turk island, a channel to the sea gives access to North Creek, the only hurricane shelter for yachts traveling between Nassau and Puerto Rico. The warm Atlantic Sea waters provide spectacular diving, snorkeling, and fishing. Marine life ranges from tiny seahorses to manta, eagle and sting rays, green and hawksbill turtles, dolphins, whale sharks, and the humpback whale. Diving is just a 5-minute boat ride offshore to the 2000m/7,000ft vertical wall. On the top of the wall, divers enjoy diving through the incredible coral formations (a wide variety of gorgonians, soft corals, hard corals, and black corals) and sand gullies. On the western coast of the island close to North Creek, there are lots of dive sites, such as McDonald (one of visitors’ favorite Caribbean dive sites), Amphitheater, the Aquarium, Rolling Hills, and Gorgonian Wall. The signature feature of the McDonald site is a beautiful living-coral archway spanning the sand channel that leads to the edge of the wall, where divers can encounter hawksbill turtles, Nassau groupers, parrotfish, healthy bright corals and mammoth sponges. The max. depth is 18m/59ft, with average visibility of 30m/100ft.