Dive Areas

Torrens Point to Diamond Rock

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About this dive area

Home to four dive sites, the Torrens Point to Diamond Rock area provide a choose-your-own-adventure opportunity for divers (and snorkelers!) of all experience levels. Explore Torrens Point, aptly nicknamed “Saba's Nursery,” for its lush biodiversity, featuring gardens of corals and sponges that create a bountiful refuge for fishes and invertebrates alike. More experienced divers can traverse an 18m/60-foot underwater tunnel for an amazing experience that some say takes you into the mind of an eel.

Next, the Otto Limits dive site is a great alternative for less experienced divers looking for something akin to the Outer Limits dive site (part of the Pinnacles). Keep an eye out for the sci-fi-esque bearded fireworm (Hermodice carunculata) as well as green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) and hawksbill sea turtles (Eretmochelys imbrica). The Man O’War Shoals features two peaks hosting the typical, glorious Caribbean reef biodiversity, and is the only dive site on Saba known to host the Atlantic spadefish (Chaetodipterus faber). This open-ocean fish rarely strays into a reef ecosystem.

Last, Diamond Rock is a dive site adjacent to the iconic, craggy rock of the same name, colored white not by diamonds but by bird guano (but we dare you to say that makes it less magical). This site features a canyon full of species like the unicorn filefish (Aluterus monoceros), furry sea cucumbers (Astichopus multifidus), octopus, and southern stingrays (Hypanus americanus).

Header image of Diamond Rock by Kai Wulf.

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Torrens Point to Diamond Rock Area

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Connect with Sea Saba by visiting seasaba.com, calling +599 416 3544, or emailing office@seasaba.com.
Managed by the Saba Conservation Foundation, the SMP encircles the entire island from the high-water mark to a depth of 60m (200 feet), including the seabed and overlying waters. Learn more here.
Saba Bank is the largest submarine atoll in the Atlantic Ocean, and the fifth largest of its kind in the world. It covers an area of 2,600 square km and has some of the richest diversity of marine life in the Caribbean Sea. While there’s no appreciable recreational diving in Saba Bank at the moment, it’s a critical source of marine life for all surrounding reefs. Learn more here.

Ask a Local

Question: What’s your favorite place on Saba?

Answer: Cove Bay. It's very relaxing. It's not deep, so it's very open, and they have rocks that shut you off from the ocean. Going there and sitting outside by the rocks and listening to the waves is amazing.

Henrietta Hassel
Librarian, mother, caretaker