Destination: Scuba Diving in Anguilla
Cool shot, right? That's me again on the left — I'm very photogenic underwater. Totally stealing the show from the awesome wreck of the Oosterdiep. OK, maybe not. It sits in about 80 feet of water, with the bow facing in towards Sandy Ground. On the wreck are the now unrecognizable skeleton of a VW bug — you can tell it's a car, but not much else — turtles, stingrays in the sand nearby and garden eels all around.
Nadia Aly
Anguilla is the most northerly of the Leeward Islands and is part of the British West Indies situated in the Eastern Caribbean. This wreck-diving destination offers a plethora of ships turned reefs at varying depths. The most recent wreck site is actually a pair of Spanish galleons that were discovered off of Junks Hole Bay. Protected water led by the government's Marine Park system and mooring permit policy has benefited Anguilla's reefs and offers a variety to the underwater visitor. Spring temperatures also allure humpback whales to the area between Windward Point and Scrub Island.
The wreck of the Dutch cargo ship the Oosterdiep was deliberately sunk upright, northwest of Meads Bay in 1990, and it makes for an absolutely fantastic night dive, with tons of marine life present during the day or night.