Marsh Harbour, Abaco, Bahamas

Towers

The Towers is a reef site off Marsh Harbour in the Abacos featuring two prominent coral pinnacles that rise from a sandy plateau in roughly 18 to 24 meters of water to within 8 meters of the surface. The towers are heavily encrusted with hard corals, gorgonians, sea fans, and large barrel sponges, providing structure that attracts concentrated reef life: schools of grunts and snappers, large groupers, queen triggerfish, scrawled filefish, French and queen angelfish, and the occasional spotted moray. Caribbean reef sharks patrol the surrounding sand, and southern stingrays cruise the channels between the pinnacles. The vertical profile of the towers makes for great photographic compositions and allows divers to circle each pinnacle multiple times during a single dive. Visibility is typically very good and currents are generally mild. A favorite intermediate site in the Abacos. The Abacos archipelago is one of the more sheltered Bahamian dive destinations thanks to a series of barrier cays running parallel to the main island, and operators based at Marsh Harbour and Hope Town include The Towers in rotation alongside other patch reef and reef-edge sites for a varied multi-dive day.