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Brimstone Shallows.
Brimstone Shallows is an offshore bank about two miles from shore, one of the furthest St Kitts sites from land. Its top is covered in hard and soft corals and gently sloping walls drop into deep water on both sides. It is known for regular encounters with reef sharks.
Where · St Kitts, about two miles offshore
Type · seamount
Depth · 14–40 m
Logged · 8 dives, 20 Nov 2003 – 15 Jul 2004
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01 / The dive
What's down there.
POINTS OF INTEREST
- Offshore bank with deep water on both sides
- Sloping walls
- Pristine hard and soft corals
- Sandy channel approach
- Regular reef shark encounters
MARINE LIFE
- Caribbean reef sharks
- Barracuda
- Turtles
- Schools of creole wrasse
- Horse-eye jacks
- Lobsters
- Moray eels
DEPTH & CONDITIONS
Top at about 14 m (45 ft), with sloping walls falling to 40 m (130 ft) and deeper.
Exposed offshore site with deep water around it; better suited to divers comfortable with depth and open water. The sharks are described as curious but not aggressive.
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03 / Logged here
8 dives.
From the reconstructed log — the dates follow the pattern I dived, so read them as representative rather than exact.
2003 2
2004 6