Yankeetown

Yankeetown is named after a village in West Caicos that existed from the late 1800s until the 1920s. The upper 50 to 55 feet of the reef is covered in coral heads and has a very flat surface. These corals include large tube sponges, star coral, and plate corals. Also found here are Nassau groupers, porcupinefish, honeycomb cowfish, puddinglifes, and trumpetfish.

Under the mooring at about 40 feet of water, a sand area with scattered coral heads leads into a sand chute that descends through the reef from 50 feet to a ledge at about 80-100 feet where the wall drops abruptly to the deep. This is one of the Best Diving Sites in Turks and Caicos Islands (UK).

Divers will encounter black coral and purple tube sponges all along the wall, as well as yellow-headed jawfish, golden-tailed morays, groupers, and black durgons, as they do at many of West Caicos' dive sites. The ledge region has some outstanding plate and star coral development in Yankeetown.