Tiger Rock

The tip of a three pinnacle seamount off the Kusapín peninsula, breaking the surface as a low rock at the edge of the continental shelf where the bottom falls away toward the abyssal plain. A 75-to-90-minute open ocean run from Isla Colón, it is the most demanding and most revered dive in Bocas del Toro. Strong current sweeps the pinnacles from about 16 metres down past 40, pulling schools of blacktip and silky sharks into the blue while nurse sharks and green morays wedge into the crevices and grouper hold along the walls. The clear oceanic water gives 20-plus metre blue water views, and the site is only diveable when the Caribbean lies flat — mainly September and October.