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Turks & Caicos

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The Turks & Caicos liveaboard offers guests a week of diving beautiful sheer wall ledges decorated with massive orange elephant-ear sponges, purple gorgonians and crimson rope sponges. Divers enjoy frequent visits from nurse and reef sharks, turtles and eagle rays as they cruise by in search of prey or forage!

   
  • Diving begins Sunday morning and ends Friday around noon when the yacht returns to port.
  • Average of up to 27 dives on 7-night charters including night dives.
  • 3 mm wetsuit recommended
  • Average water temperatures: 78-84F, 25-29C
All diving is from the yacht. An 18 ft. x 5 ft. tender is available to take guests for optional shore excursions (usually 1 - 2 excursions).

 

 

French Cay - Double D

Simply described as a “Garden of Eden”, the wall is overgrown, and there is an abundance of marine life. There are two huge coral mounds teeming with fish. A resident spotted scorpion fish often poses for photographers. Spotted eagle rays are often seen here.

French Cay - G-Spot
An absolutely beautiful wall with many huge, deep-water gorgonians and orange elephant ear sponges growing at the wall’s edge.

French Cay - Rock and Roll
The top of the wall is at 40 feet, and there are plenty of barrel sponges, elkhorn, and pillar corals. Juvenile barracuda and lobsters are spotted during the day. This a great afternoon and night dive.

French Cay - West Sand Spit
(5 miles south of French Cay) The wall starts at 40 feet and is covered with huge coral formations—pillar corals, barrel sponges, and deep-water gorgonians. Look for nurse sharks, French angels, ocean triggerfish, and huge stingrays. This site is weather permitting.

Northwest Point - Black Coral Forest
The walls starts at 45 feet and drops to below 300 feet. There is an overhang where at least five species of black coral are growing. The base of the overhang is at 75 feet.

Northwest Point - Shark Hotel
Named for the Caribbean reef sharks sometimes seen cruising by, the wall levels of at 90 feet at a plateau covered with plate corals. At 100 feet, a chimney cuts through the reef exiting at 130 feet on the deep wall with lots of pillar coral on top of the wall.

Northwest Point - The Crack
The wall doglegs to the south forming a huge penny slot crack that divers can swim and exit at any time. A massive barrel sponge with an anemone above it is at 85 feet. Divers can swim to the south where you may encounter schooling fish and a resident sea turtle.

Northwest Point - The Dome
Once the site of a French television game show, this sunken dome offers a spectacular night dive.

West Caicos - Driveway
One of the most diverse dive sites along West Caicos, the boat is moored in 35 feet of water offering the options of swimming to the wall over “the Driveway”, a large sand chute, or cruising on top of the wall in shallower water where there are many interesting isolated coral heads. There are anemones growing in the shallows at only 5-10 feet of water depth.

West Caicos - Gullies
Divers can swim through a penny slot gully that starts at 45 feet and ends at 75 feet where there are beautiful sponge formations at the edge of the wall and schooling fish on top of the wall.

West Caicos - Rock Garden Interlude
This wall is divided into sections with large and beautiful sponge formations. Divers encounter friendly sea turtles and spotted scorpion fish. The sand flat on top of the wall has several nice coral heads and fascinating but shy garden eels.

West Caicos - The Anchor/Whiteface
Called “Whiteface” for the white sandy cliffs along West Caicos, this site provides a swim- through gully with a 17th century anchor wedged in the north side. A beautiful, large white anemone sits at about 95 feet at the base of the gully. Divers keep an eye out for the resident reef shark who is not camera shy and enjoy great night dives with lobsters, octopuses, and nurse sharks.

*Sample itineraries and maps are for illustrative purposes only. The exact route and sites visited are subject to change based on local regulations, guest experience, weather and logistics, and is at the Captain’s discretion.

 

 

The Turks & Caicos Aggressor II is a 120-foot yacht, designed and powered for comfort, safety and stability. She is diesel-powered, cruises at 10 knots and has 110-volt power on board.

Comfortable accommodations for 18 guests include 9 spacious staterooms each independently air-conditioned, a private head and shower, porthole view window, mirrored cabinet, hair dryer, fresh towels and volume controls. Each stateroom has a 32-inch flat screen TV offering a selection of movies, TV shows and documentaries. Guests will also be able to plug their computers into the TV screen to edit underwater pictures and video.

 

The yacht has a beautiful spacious salon that is air-conditioned and well equipped with an LCD TV, and satellite telephone. The Socorro Aggressor also has a large sun deck with shading, chaise lounges and deck chairs, and bar.

There is a variety of nightly entertainment, including diving, fish identification presentations, movies, games and more. If you have a favorite movie or digital presentation to share, we encourage you to bring it along. The staff especially loves new releases of movies, recent magazines and books. A small library of books for exchange is maintained onboard as well as fish identification books for reference.

Yacht Specifications:

  • Length: 120 ft.
  • Beam: 22
  • Passengers: 18
  • Staterooms: 9
  • Boarding: Sat. 4 p.m.
  • Check out: Saturday 8 a.m.

 

The menu onboard is varied and plentiful, with a variety of American feasts, barbecues and local cuisine. If you have any special dietary restrictions, please note this when completing your online Guest Information System portal. You will wake up to fresh fruits, hot entrees, cereals and juices. Lunches feature hot soups, homemade breads, salads and sandwiches and/or entrees. Dinners are served each evening and include salads, vegetables, seafood, beef or chicken with a fresh homemade dessert. Once onboard, please speak to the chef about any special needs. Certain special dietary and beverage requests may not be available due to the remote nature of this location.

All meals, snacks & beverages are provided.

Airport transfers included.

Also required:

  • $110 port fee
  • Crew gratuity

 

 

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