Photography: David Stone

Dive mooring project

Since 2012, the Turks & Caicos Reef Fund has been the lead non-governmental organization for the installation and maintenance of dive boat, snorkel boat and yacht moorings throughout the Turks & Caicos Islands under the terms of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Department of Environment and Coastal Resources (DECR).

DECR is the local governmental agency responsible for maintaining the marine protected areas in the TCI as well as all other environmental issues.   As of March 2017, we have installed 78 proper sea floor anchors (no more chains wrapped around coral heads!) and mooring lines for dive boat moorings, 16 snorkel boat moorings and 5 yacht moorings - 28 of the dive moorings and all snorkel and yacht moorings are brand new sites.

To see how the sea floor anchors are installed, check out the photos below.  A PDF list of all the dive sites around Grace Bay, Pine Cay, NW Point and West Caicos is downloadable here.

The donations from divers, snorkelers and other visitors to these islands are needed to continue this project, so please help today!