| The British Virgin
Islands offers something for everyone with amazing reefs
and over 300 wrecks it is also home to some of the best
wreck diving in the Caribbean. The HMS Rhone is one
of the most popular wreck dives in the Caribbean. The
Rhone was a Royal Mail Steam Packet Ship built in 1865
and suck in 1867 during one of the worst hurricanes
to hit the islands. Regardless of which island you stay
on there are countless reefs, towering coral pinnacles,
lava tunnels, grottoes and underwater caves to be explored.
BVITourism.com
has an extensive list of dive sites around the islands
with descriptions, locations and average depts. |
The
British Virgin Islands consist of 60 islands and cays located
east of Puerto Rico with the Atlantic Ocean north and the
Caribbean Sea south. The main islands are Tortola, Virgin
Gorda, Anegada and Jost Van Dyke. Tortola is the largest island
which is approximately 12 miles (19km) long and 3 miles (5km)
wide. The islands are volcanic in origin and have a hilly,
rugged terrain that is covered for much of the year in a thick
green carpet of tropical trees, bushes and scrub. The climate
is warm, subtropical, and sometimes humid, with temperatures
rarely dropping below 74ºF (23ºC) in the winter
or rising above 90ºF (32ºC) in the summer. The wet
season lasts from June to December.