The Caribbean submarine landscape is still a beautiful kingdom with many wonderful corners yet to be discovered

Before massive tourism, just a few submarine fans had the privilege of watching the beauty hidden in the depths of these waters. Now, each day there are more small submarines (for twenty people), allowing visitors to enjoy an unforgettable experience under the sea.

The Pool is Open
With not too much depth and excellent temperature, the Caribbean waters are ideal to learn the art of diving with compressed air tanks. Hundreds of submarine schools give training for beginners, with practice in shallow waters, allowing the pupil to obtain a certificate required to dive in deeper waters (PADI and NAUI). There are also professional instructors to help finding the most interesting corners for expert submarinists and potential biology experts. Many centers offer as well, courses of submarine photograph.

Almost all of the most beautiful reefs are protected marine parks. Tourist boom is threatening the frail and complex ecosystem of the reefs. The small island of Bonaire was the first to protect their waters with the creation of a marine park. Later, Saba and the British Virgin Islands followed. Jacques-Yves Cousteau founded a marine park in the west coast of Guadeloupe. On the other side, St. Eustatius also protects the treasures hiding in his waters. Finally, Anguilla is on the brink of starting a program to protect his reefs.

DEVOURED BY THE SEA
Near the west coast of Aruba, and only 10m deep, are the rests of the Pedernales, an oil tanker sunk during the World War II, due to the impact of a torpedo. This is only one of the many attractions for submarinists coming to this island of the Dutch Antilles. There is also Antilla, the biggest ship sunk in the Caribbean, to this time at least. The rests are a proof of the incredible capacity of nature to adapt to its new guests. The hull of the ship is a multicolor tapestry thanks to the colonies of corals, sponges and anemones over it. By the ship’s hold swim now hundreds of colorful tropical fishes,
At the bottom of St. Eustatius waters rest many anchors. Likewise, you can explore other sunken ships like the Proselyte, in front of the Great Bay coasts in St. Maarten, or the RMS Rhone, in the Marine Park of Rhone, in front of the Tortola coast. Other curious inhabitants of the ocean bed are some old cars that fell from a merchant vessel, in front of the coast of Vaersenbaai in Curacao.