GSC #22 🪸 Reef Site

East End - Collier's Bay Snapper Hole

📌
Mooring Pin
33 ft
Max Depth
60 ft
⏱️
From Dock
20 min

A favorite among staff and customers alike, Snapper Hole is a bastion of East End dive sites — the boat crew can often be seen fighting over who has to stay onboard and watch bubbles while the others dive. It is a labyrinth of swim-throughs, tunnels, caverns, crevasses, and arches. Right under the boat is an impressive cavern that became world-famous after being featured in a BBC nature documentary filmed during a two-week stay in 2014, capturing Tarpon and Jacks predating on vast schools of Dwarf Herring that fill these shadowy spaces during summer.

Outside the cavern, a sizeable Spanish-style anchor from 1872 rests against a freestanding coral head and is always surrounded by Bluestriped Grunts and Schoolmaster Snappers. Have your photo taken looking through the anchor's huge shackle for a unique souvenir. Porkfish live under the countless ledges, and a Green Moray can often be seen swimming through the canyons — unafraid of divers, it can raise a few pulses when encountered face-to-face in a confined space. On your way back to the boat, visit 'Papa Smurf's House' — a coral head nestled in the reef that looks like a giant mushroom.

3D map of Snapper Hole dive site
Hand-drawn briefing map of Snapper Hole

Specifications

🪸 Site Type Shallow Reef
📌 Mooring Pin Depth 33 ft
⬇ Max Depth 60 ft
⏱️ Drive Time 20 min from dock
GSC Zone C Collier's Bay
🤿 Snorkelling No
📄 Dive Permit None

Ratings

Greenshorts Challenge Difficulty i How frequently we visit - based on our dive logs
Shark Sighting Forecast i Likelihood of spotting a shark - based on our shark logs
Swim Thru Rating i How many and how epic are swimthroughs on this site

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