Scuba Diving in Turks & Caicos

✔ Over 20 dive sites are contained in a marine protected region
✔ Mooring is available in three areas: North West Point, Pine Key and Grace Bay (Marine Park)
✔ Both archipelagos (Turks & Caicos) rest on the fringe of the continental platform, providing a submarine depth perception of over 6,000 feet with 45 to 135 feet of visibility
✔ Underwater terrain varies from shallow to deep areas
✔ PADI courses for beginners available
✔ Common marine sightings include barracudas, jack fish, tuna, dolphins, sharks and humpback whales (seasonal from mid-January to the end of March)

All PADI® courses include full equipment rentals, including cylinders, wetsuits, lead belts, stab jackets, dive regulators, flippers, masks and snorkels. Dive computers are available at Turkoise and they are required for anyone who is buddy diving. In addition, your rental will include professional instruction and boat trips, along with a PADI diploma certificate and handbook available on-site at extra cost.

To reach your aquatic paradise, boat trips will be provided by the resort. However, if you’re looking to provide your party with an extra-exclusive experience, private boat rentals will be available at an additional cost. Take your vacation to a land down under and jump into the best dive locations Club Med has to offer.

Take your all-inclusive vacation in Turkoise to an all-time high by diving with one of our incredibly immersive packages. When it comes to scuba diving in Turks & Caicos, our resorts offer PADI instructional courses and diving packages for divers of all skill levels, ranging all the way down to children as young as 8 years old.

Never scuba dived before? A little intimidated by the prospect? Never fear! This beginners-only class is the perfect introduction.

★ Introduction to Scuba Diving: Our PADI-certified instructors will teach you all the basic fundamentals of scuba diving in the stress-free safety of a swimming pool.

★ Open-Water Diver: if you’ve never scuba dived before and are eager to experience the unequaled adventure awaiting in the world beneath the waves, this is the class for you. Although no scuba experience is required, you must be in good health and possess adequate swimming skills.

Club Med Turkoise offers a seamless scuba diving experience, including group lessons for adults and children of all skill levels. If you decide to take the plunge into cool Caribbean waters, we’ll provide you with state-of-the-art equipment, qualified instructors and the choice of over 35 dive locations that are all just a few minutes away from the resorts.

★ Advanced Open-Water Diver: you don’t need to have extensive experience to enroll. In fact, you can start right after earning your PADI Open-Water Diver certification. This class is simply designed to enhance your scuba diving skills to build confidence and ease when you’re out in the deep blue sea.

These packages are designed to meet the needs of those who've taken scuba trips in the past and are either still looking for a guided experience or trying to get out on their own.

★ Enriched Air Diver (Nitrox) : this is PADI’s most popular specialty scuba course. The enriched nitrox air eliminates decompression time, especially on repetitive scuba dives. If longer diving sessions and shorter surfacing times sound appealing, then don’t hesitate to sign up for enriched diving.

★ Rescue Diver: past graduates have often described the PADI Rescue Diver course as one of the most challenging yet rewarding they’ve ever taken. You’ll learn the special safety skills necessary to prevent and manage problems in the water, making you an invaluable asset to any scuba group.

★ Dive Master: the PADI Dive Master course offers the first level of professional scuba training. You’ll work closely with a PADI instructor to hone your dive and rescue skills and obtain the qualifications to lead your own diving group and assist others in training.

Divers know they are at this site when they see the namesake elephant ear sponge spanning 11 feet in diameter. From there, divers can explore a reef split into sections by sand chutes. Under the boat at the end of the dive, garden eels, stingrays and tilefish are commonly seen.

At the top of the Shark Hotel wall, divers can find schools of grunts, snappers and goatfish. As the name suggests, this site is a good place to spot small reef sharks. In addition, close to the mooring are enormous formations of pillar coral, some of the largest to be seen in Turks & Caicos.

This dive begins 50 feet beneath the surface with a large colony of garden eels in a sand flat, often accompanied by a family of stingrays. Later, experience one of the deeper dives at West Caicos, featuring coral arches and swim-throughs of around 80 to 100 feet.