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Turks and Caicos

Turks and Caicos

Brandi Mueller

You need a holiday. It's time to get away from the madness of the city, the rain and the cold and there must be diving. But you want easy diving; no dry suits or crazy currents, just calm, easy and beautiful. Good diving is a must. No boring dives with nothing to see. Where should you go? How about Turks and Caicos? Forty islands and cays south of the Bahamas with sugar white sand, turquoise waters, and an ever so slight trade wind breeze. Underwater - sheer walls covered in corals and sponges leading straight down in the deep abyss with great visibility and abundant marine life.

Turks and Caicos, a British Overseas Territory, is about 900km south of Miami. With a direct flight from LHR on British Airways each Sunday (or any day with a stop in Miami) you can be sipping a rum punch on the beach in just twelve hours, and have your kit set up and ready to dive the next morning...

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