Based purely on reputation I would suggest the following:
- Little Cayman
- Bonaire
- Cozumel
I haven't dived too many places in the Caribbean (other than home), and I have never dived any of those three. I have to say the other places that I have dived in the Caribbean (USVI, Spanish Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic) I didn't think were as good as BVI, but I am not vain enough to suggest that makes the BVI one of the best.
However, based on hearsay and using the BVI as a baseline:
- A lot of the people that I dive with split time between Grand Cayman and BVI, and most (but not all) of them reckon BVI is better than Grand Cayman (I often hear "In Cayman you are on a huge wall, and you keep thinking that you might see something really big, but you never do." and "All the fish are small.") They are much more effusive about Little Cayman, although apparently it is a real hump to get there.
- One of the dive instructors from my LDS takes his diving holidays in Bonaire. That's all the recommendation that I need.
- The one guy that I know that has done Coz and the BVI said it was pretty special.
Just my 2 PSI.
- Little Cayman
- Bonaire
- Cozumel
I haven't dived too many places in the Caribbean (other than home), and I have never dived any of those three. I have to say the other places that I have dived in the Caribbean (USVI, Spanish Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic) I didn't think were as good as BVI, but I am not vain enough to suggest that makes the BVI one of the best.
However, based on hearsay and using the BVI as a baseline:
- A lot of the people that I dive with split time between Grand Cayman and BVI, and most (but not all) of them reckon BVI is better than Grand Cayman (I often hear "In Cayman you are on a huge wall, and you keep thinking that you might see something really big, but you never do." and "All the fish are small.") They are much more effusive about Little Cayman, although apparently it is a real hump to get there.
- One of the dive instructors from my LDS takes his diving holidays in Bonaire. That's all the recommendation that I need.
- The one guy that I know that has done Coz and the BVI said it was pretty special.
Just my 2 PSI.