Customs House.
A rectangular reef structure, often compared to a loaf of bread, in Ladder Bay below the abandoned customs house on the cliff. It slopes from sand patches with garden eels down to a narrowing ridge hung with sponges and gorgonians. Stingray cleaning stations and coral-encrusted anchors on the seabed are the main features.
What's down there.
- Loaf-shaped reef structure
- Stingray cleaning stations
- Coral-encrusted historic anchors
- Sand slope with garden eels
- Black coral at depth
- Southern stingrays
- Roughtail stingrays
- Garden eels
- Caribbean reef sharks
- Green and hawksbill turtles
- Sponges and gorgonians
- Black coral
Reef structure begins at about 20-21 m (65-70 ft) and drops into the blue
Deeper dive. Reef sharks pass in open water off the structure. Best suited to experienced divers.
How it got there.
Named after the abandoned 1930s customs house on the cliff edge above Ladder Bay, which handled cargo landed at The Ladder before Fort Bay harbour was built. Coral-encrusted anchors from old cargo ships lie on the seabed.
12 dives.
From the reconstructed log — the dates follow the pattern I dived, so read them as representative rather than exact.