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Old Road Bay.

Old Road Bay is a sheltered bay on the west coast of St Kitts at Old Road Town, the site of the first permanent English settlement in the West Indies. The bay is protected from storms and holds the reef known as Paradise Reef. Explorer Ventures records moorings being installed in the bay for its liveaboard.

Where · St Kitts, west (Caribbean) coast, Old Road Town Type · bay Depth · — Logged · 79 dives, 2 Oct 2003 – 30 Sep 2004

The weekly night dive on the St Kitts leg.

— from the log
$ man old-road-bay
01 / The dive

What's down there.

POINTS OF INTEREST
  • Sheltered bay protected from storms
  • Reef and mini wall (Paradise Reef) within the bay
  • Old anchors on the reef
  • Liveaboard moorings
MARINE LIFE
  • Turtles
  • Moray eels
  • Rays
  • Lobsters
  • Barracuda
  • Nurse sharks
DEPTH & CONDITIONS

No depth found for a dive site under this name. Paradise Reef, within the bay, is given as 12–40 m.

Sheltered from weather by the bay; visibility usually good. No specific night-dive information was found.

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03 / Logged here

79 dives.

From the reconstructed log — the dates follow the pattern I dived, so read them as representative rather than exact.

2003 17
2004 62

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