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Port Royal, Kingston is one of Jamaica’s
most interesting dive locations due to it’s incredible history
of shipwrecks and pirates. Kingston was once known as “one
of the wickedest cities in the world." Due to the many ship
wrecks, Port Royal is now home to an array of tropical fish. Depth
is approximately 50ft, with an outer reef drop-off of about 80ft.
Highlights of the area include the "Kim & Trader"
lumber ship wreck and of course, the famous pirate city sunken wall
of Port Royal.
The best wreck diving is off Port Royal and Kingston where, in addition
to ships, you can explore the city which slid into the sea in the
1692 earthquake. |
The Island of Jamaica brings to mind pirates,
treasure, rum and raggae music. The priates are gone and the treasure
with them. Though it is still hard to get a permit to dive on Port
Royal, a former pirate and smuggler haunt that sank during an earth
quake hundreds of years ago. Most of the sport diving is done on
the tourist oriented west end of the island. Montego Bay has both
an artificial reef program as well as
a natural reef conservation program. Diving in Jamaica is a fairly
well kept secret. |
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