Scuba Diving in Royal Naval Dockyard

Why here

Bermuda is the Shipwreck Capital of the Atlantic, and it earns the title. The island is the exposed tip of an undersea volcano ringed by the most northerly coral reefs on earth, a shallow, treacherous barrier that has claimed more than 300 documented ships over five centuries, from Spanish galleons and Civil War blockade runners to 19th and 20th century steamers. Many of those wrecks lie in only 5 to 15 metres of clear, warm water on the reef flats, so they are broken open, coral-encrusted and lit up, and divers of modest experience can swim them, while snorkellers enjoy the shallowest. The Cristobal Colon, the largest wreck in Bermudian waters, the paddle-wheeler Mary Celestia off the South Shore, and the Constellation, whose scattered cargo inspired the novel The Deep, are among dozens on offer, alongside living reef with parrotfish, barracuda and the occasional turtle. The Royal Naval Dockyard at the West End is the base of Bermuda's oldest dive company, running out of the old Victorian yard, and the Gulf Stream keeps the water warm enough to dive from spring to autumn. Few places pack this much accessible history and reef into water this shallow and this clear.