Things to do · Destination Guide
Seasonal oceanic whitetips offshore, quiet reefs and real Out Island life ashore
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Cat Island has two different scuba propositions. Shannas Cove Dive Center around Orange Creek and Greenwood Beach Resort around Port Howe advertise conventional local reef and wall dives. The famous offshore encounters are a separately prebooked, specialist blue-water shark expedition. Epic Diving advertises May-June departures, while its general pages describe a wider March-June occurrence window. The operator calls the caged-free, no-visible-bottom drifts advanced. Neither seasonal wildlife presence nor an operator website establishes a confirmed departure or guaranteed shark sighting.
Offshore Cat Island / Columbus Point research area
The spring oceanic whitetip aggregation is scientifically associated with waters off the island.
Shannas Cove northern reefs and walls
Boat-access reef and wall experience near the Orange Creek resort, subject to current dive center confirmation.
Port Howe / Greenwood local diving
The Port Howe resort dive shop is a possible base for conventional reef diving and specialist departure inquiries.
Operator Checklist
Contact the intended operator before committing travel. Obtain written confirmation of departure dates, meeting point, permitted in-water activity, guest dive experience, tank/weight/rental inclusions, and weather/animal-encounter cancellation terms. Epic lists packaged multi-day arrangements; Neal Watson lists a Cat Island day safari but explicitly says Season: TBD. A dive plan for the island cannot assume that both companies run on every day or that any encounter is assured. Avoid decompression and overhead profiles without independently qualified specialized instruction and site permissions.
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