Westmoreland, located at the west end of the island, is adjoined on the north by the parish of Hanover and on the East by St. Elizabeth and St. James. The parish has a combination of white limestone, marl, sand, gravel and coral reefs. Lying on the Georges Plain, the parish is drained by the Cabaritta River.
Date: February 17, 2022
Depth 91ft / 27m
Temp: 80.6F / 27C
Sitting on the sandy sea floor is a Cessna plane fully encrusted in coral and housing a myriad of small critters such as yellow arrowline crabs, shrimp, juvenile fish and lobsters. Check your buoyancy and secure any dangling gear/hoses and you can swim through the plane to get a closer look. Surrounding the wreck are a range of spur and groove formations that are teeming with gorgonians, barrel sponges and a host of soft corals.
Date: February 17, 2022
Depth: 57ft / 17.3m
Temp: 80.6F / 27C
Just like Deep Plane another Cessna sits on the sandy bottom of this dive site. Being a shallower dive, you can get to explore the surrounding are called The Arches. All along the basin-like wall are a series of overhanging rock formations that will sate your swim-thru fix for the entire dive. Big schools of squirrelfish can be found congregating inside the swim-thru closest to the plane. Studded all along are gorgonians, sea fans, colorful sponges and sea rods. On the top of basin there were schools of French grunts and other many other juvenile fish.
Date: February 18, 2022
Depth: 25-55ft / 7.62m-16.7m
Temp: 80.6F / 27C
One of the great things about diving in Negril are the shore dives from the cliffs. The House Reef at Scuba Dive Today is split into two dives so you can either veer left or right from the starting point and you’ll have a solid 2 tank dive. These sites are a macro paradise, you’ll find all things small and colorful dotted all throughout the dives, even a couple of seahorses if you search hard enough! In the shallows you’ll see starfish, anemones with blue shrimp and gaudy clown crabs nestled within. On the deeper ends there were several big schools of bar jacks, grunts and snappers. Circling just above were creole wrasse that would descend every so often and circle around only to make their way back up into the water column. All throughout the dives sea whips, sea rods, barrel sponges and sea fans decorated the sea floor and provided and lush and colourful seascape.
