Le Cap

Le Cap is a rocky point on Martinique's southwestern coast where the island's volcanic geology surfaces as dramatic underwater ridges and overhangs running from 10 metres to beyond 40. Massive barrel sponges up to 2 metres across anchor themselves between the ridges, and the ledge system shelters sleeping nurse sharks and resting groupers that emerge to feed at dawn and dusk. The site is less visited than Diamond Rock, which means the grouper populations in particular are unusually large and unhabituated — an increasingly rare experience in Caribbean diving.