Bloodlet owes its name to the entry: sharp limestone ledges on which divers open up their shins. Gloves and booties are no luxury here. Those who get through dive a reef where almost no one is.
Bloodlet is an advanced shore dive on the north-west coast: an entry over sharp limestone ledges, a reef top at five to seven metres and a slope to thirty-eight metres.
A reef top at five to seven metres with dense hard coral and fan coral, dropping into a slope to thirty-eight metres. Black coral and large vase sponges on the slope. Jacks along the edge, moray and lobster in the crevices.
In flat water; in swell the surf washes over the ledges and the exit turns dangerous. In the morning, with offshore wind.
The name is a warning: the ledges are sharp and the entry goes over uneven rock. Parking on the coast-road verge. No shade, no water, no toilet, little traffic passing.
Decisions on diveability, technique and health belong with STINAPA, a dive school or a doctor. This page only describes the conditions.
The whole north-west coast consists of raised limestone terraces cut by the surf. At Bloodlet the upper terrace edge lies right at the water, so the entry runs over sharp rock rather than sand.
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