Salt Pier is a shore dive beneath the loading pier of the salt works. Between the pillars the light falls in shafts and sponges and coral grow right up to the waterline. Diving is only allowed when no ship is berthed; that is a prohibition, not a recommendation.
Salt Pier is an advanced shore dive on the south coast beneath the salt loading pier: overgrown pillars from the surface to twenty metres, closed whenever a ship is berthed.
Four rows of pillars, covered top to bottom with fire coral, sponges and oysters, with schools of grunts and snappers in the shade. Outside the pier a sand flat runs to the reef at fifteen to twenty metres. It is darker under the structure than you expect; a torch helps the colours.
When no ship is berthed and the water above the sand flat has not been stirred up. Midday light falls best between the pillars.
The dive is off if loading is under way, and you only find that out on site. Parking is a verge along a through road. Fire coral at eye level on the pillars. No shade ashore, no water, no toilet.
Decisions on diveability, technique and health belong with STINAPA, a dive school or a doctor. This page only describes the conditions.
The pier belongs to the salt works in the south, successor to the nineteenth-century pans whose obelisks and slave huts still stand along this coast. Salt still leaves the island by ship.
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