Cooper Island

Cooper Island

An easygoing beach club, clear water, and the wreck of the RMS Rhone across the channel.

Best for:

Snorkeling and diving

Best for:

Snorkeling and diving

Don’t miss:

A dive on the RMS Rhone

Don’t miss:

A dive on the RMS Rhone

Good to know:

Dives are booked with a local operator.

Good to know:

Dives are booked with a local operator.

Island:

Cooper Island, BVI

Island:

Cooper Island, BVI

Bring:

Your dive certification card

Bring:

Your dive certification card

Cooper Island is quiet and unhurried: one beach, one beach club and clear water off the rocks at either end. It’s an easy place to spend an afternoon swimming and an evening ashore.

Across the channel off Salt Island lies the RMS Rhone, a Royal Mail steamer wrecked in an 1867 hurricane and now one of the best-known dive sites in the Caribbean. Certified divers can book a rendezvous dive, and in calm conditions snorkelers can see the shallower parts of the wreck from the surface.