Our Top Favorite Dive Sites!
Charles L. Brown
Premier Wreck Dive in the Caribbean
Depth: 30M/100ft
Boat Ride: 10-12 minutes
Experience Level: Advanced/Experienced
This is the "biggest" reason to come dive in Statia. The "Charlie Brown" is a decommissioned AT&T line boat that laid the first TransAtlantic cable. She was purchased by Statia and sunk for a dive site.
She is 100M/300ft in length with a 30M/100ft swim through with sharks, cubera snapper and the resident barracuda "Charlie" as a common sightings.
Charles Brown
Double Wreck
Archeological Site
Depth: 18M/60ft
Boat ride: 2 minutes
Experience Level: Beginner
Perfect for getting warmed up again in the water, but also for the macro lovers and photographers
With old anhors from merchant ships that sunk in the late 1700's, this site's reef developed on the ballast tones from these ships. Surrounded by sand dotted with massive sting rays and teaming with reef fish, macro life galore, and grazing sea turtles
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Archeological
Nursing Station and Barracuda Reef
Coral Encrusted Lava Flow
Depth: 19 M/63ft
Boat Ride: 10 minutes
Another gorgeous reef in the pristine Marine Reserve, this small wall reef is teaming with huge schools of reef fish, barracuda and nurse sharks from where the sites get their names. Hidden in the crevaces of the wall are lobsters, drum fish and the occasional massive green moray eel!
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Hangover
Coral Encrusted Lava Flow
Depth: 10-15M/ 30-45ft
Boat Ride 7-10 minutes
Experience Level: Beginner
Located in the pristine Marine Reserve, this is a magnificent site. Meander through the maze of lava flows with small and large over-hangs that give this site it's name. This site is spectacular for all diver interests with sharks, turtles, rays, and queen conch as well as macro sightings galore
Night Dive on The Chien Tong
Turtle Hotel!
Whether you have never done a night dive or you are a seasoned night-diver, this experience leaves everyone in awe.
Each night, 5-10 turtles fly in around the divers to sleep tucked safely into the corners of this wreck, Chien Tong. The hull is completely covered in blooming orange cup coral with nocturnal critters in every nook and cranny
Night Dive
Chien Tong
Wreck
Max Depth: 27M/90ft, Top of Wreck 15M/30ft
Boat Ride: 5 minutes
Experienced Level: Beginner to Moderate
The Chien Tong was a Taiwanese fishing vessel that was decommissioned after damage to her bow. Statia purchased her and sunk her for a dive site in the protection of the bay. She is 30M/100ft in length. A wonderful wreck site for beginners but has penetration opportunities for Wreck Certified Divers! The night dive on this site is a must!
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Blue Bead Hole
Muck Dive/ Drift Dive
Depth: 14-17M/ 42-56ft
Boat Ride: 2 minutes
Experience Level: Moderate to Advanced
This is a non-moored area in the bay where people can sometimes find a Statia Blue Bead, but the treasures divers find on this muck dive are spectacular... such as this flying granard!
This site does not have a mooring so requires negative entry, strict group adherence, and diving with a surface marker buoy