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To preserve the environment, divemasters and instructors in Dominica employ a strict &#8220;look but don&#8217;t touch policy&#8221;, asking that the only things you leave are bubbles, while you are free to take\u00a0pictures and wonderful memories. Visitors to our island of natural wonders are required to pay a small marine park user fee which goes back into maintenance and upkeep of moorings and the parks.<a href=\"http:\/\/avirtualdominica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/snorkel2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-4982 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/avirtualdominica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/snorkel2-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"snorkel2\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.avirtualdominica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/snorkel2-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.avirtualdominica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/snorkel2.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0All dive sites have permanent moorings and there are plans for more up and down the coast as more sites are found and explored. The possibility of new protected areas is also being considered\u00a0to preserve this pristine underwater environment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unlike many of our neighbours, the sands of Dominica are predominantly dark to black, which\u00a0tends not to reflect light and gives the impression of very dark deep water &#8212; this is not the case in many areas. The mooring of private\/charter yachts is forbidden in these areas and safe areas to anchor or moor in front of hotels along the coast are easy to find. All diving in our waters is required by law to be done through a dive centre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-4981 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/avirtualdominica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/snorkel11-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"snorkel1\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.avirtualdominica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/snorkel11-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.avirtualdominica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/snorkel11.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Although dive staff pride themselves in being able to point out the rare and uncommon, the deep waters off the island also draw in big pelagics from time to time. So make sure to look up once in a while, you never know what&#8217;s out there: whale sharks, dolphin, and on one occasion a pilot whale cruised close by a group of divers intent on finding the hidden creatures on the bottom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many of the world&#8217;s top <strong>underwater photographers<\/strong> make Dominica a regular stop, some annually.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New species of invertebrate were found in 2001 on a very shallow dive off the shore. Film crews from National Geographic, The BBC Natural History Unit, as well as many others\u00a0are regular visitors, filming both the beautiful reefs and the many marine mammals offshore. Creatures such as frogfish and seahorse, rare in other regions, are common here. And Dominica is also known as the <a href=\"http:\/\/avirtualdominica.com\/project\/whale-watching\/\">Whale-Watching<\/a> Capital of the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As with all dive sites here, &#8220;the slower you go, the more you will see.&#8221; The reefs are granite based, so there are comparatively few spaces for nocturnal and hard-to-find species to hide by day. 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Here are a few:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>2014<\/strong><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scubaradio.com\/2014\/04\/top10_us-caribbean\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><br \/>Dominica #1: Top 10 Dive Sites in US &amp; Caribbean<br \/><\/strong><\/a>Dominica was\u00a0named #1 in a list of the top ten dive sites in the US &amp; Caribbean. &#8220;The Nature Island consistently delivers the best in Caribbean diving, if not the world. Champagne reef and Scott\u0019s Head drop off are just a couple of the many underwater highlights.&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scubaradio.com\/2014\/04\/top10_us-caribbean\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on ScubaRadio.com<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\">2008<\/span><br \/><\/strong><\/span><strong>Scuba Diving Magazine Awards<\/strong><br \/><strong>1st Place<\/strong> &#8211; Marine Life<\/p>\n<p><strong>TOP TEN Mention<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dive Destination<\/li>\n<li>Marine Life<\/li>\n<li>Healthiest Marine Environment<\/li>\n<li>Underwater Photography<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\">2007<\/span><br \/><\/strong><\/span>Dominica Earns Best Diving Awards by Readers of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scubadiving.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scuba Diving Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scubadiving.com\/top100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dominica #1: Top Marine Life<\/a> in Caribbean\/Atlantic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\">2006<\/span><br \/><\/strong><\/span><strong>Scuba Diving Magazine\u00a0Awards<\/strong><br \/>Within the Caribbean\/Atlantic region, Dominica was voted:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Top Dive Destinations &#8211; 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in the gorgeousness of its vegetation; the abruptness of its precipes, the calm of its lakes, the violence of its torrents, the sublimity of its waterfalls, it stands without a rival, not in the West Indies only, but I should think, throughout the whole island catalog of the Atlantic and Pacific combined.\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<span class='et_quote_sign'><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<br \/>I wonder how much more impressed he would have been if he had been able to peer beneath the calm and inviting Caribbean Sea? 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