North America
113
Documented species
1
Parks and reserves
3
Dive sites
113 species found
Based on what we already know about U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Given almost in its entirety to the United States government by the Rockefeller family in 1956
One of the few mostly underwater national monuments in the United States. It has a marked underwater snorkelling trail through the barrier reef.
A deep underwater canyon where Columbus landed in 1493; black corals and giant sponges line its walls.
A coral wall reachable from the beach that drops abruptly from 12 m to more than 120 m; one of the finest shore dives in the Caribbean.
Nurse Shark
Ginglymostoma cirratum
Loggerhead Turtle
Caretta caretta
Leatherback Sea Turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Bluntnose Sixgill Shark
Hexanchus griseus
Osprey
Pandion haliaetus
Greater Argonaut
Argonauta argo
Turkey Vulture
Cathartes aura
Little Tunny
Euthynnus alletteratus
Humpback Whale
Megaptera novaeangliae
Great Barracuda
Sphyraena barracuda
Red-tailed Hawk
Buteo jamaicensis
Risso's Dolphin
Grampus griseus
Vulnerable
