Dive
site: The Anchor
Anchor -
Directly on the top of the wall at 35 feet lies an enormous old
anchor. The shaft is about 8 feet long and the flukes are nearly six
feet across. Estimates place the anchor at well over 100 years old, and
while the ship is not known, it is of the type and era of the old
British warships of HM Royal Navy, which did frequent the area. Today
it is heavily encrusted with coral and sponge life, and still connected
is a chain, which extends west over the wall ,and gets lost in the
coral growth about 6 feet. Each link of the chain is dinner plate size.
But the marine life here is also something to been seen, For some
reason it is generally one of the "fishier" dive site (ask about Grunt
Rock). Also reported on the site are frogfish and the rare
fingerprint cyphoma (small mollusk). The Anchor dive site is a winner day or
night! |
Photo by
www.stuartphotography.com |
Blue
Water Divers
PO Box 124,Grand Turk
Turks and Caicos Islands
1-649-946-2432
info@grandturkscuba.com
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