Hermes
Depth is the range from the top of the site to its usual maximum; "recommended cert" is the mainstream-agency level operators usually ask for, not a legal rule. Currents and visibility change daily, so treat everything here as planning ranges.
The Hermes is Bermuda's gift to wreck photographers: a fifty-meter coastal freighter, abandoned in port and scuttled by the local dive community in 1984, standing perfectly upright and intact on sand in twenty-four meters. Mast, wheelhouse, holds, and ladders are all where a shipwright would want them, and the visibility that Bermuda's south shore delivers in summer lets you take in the entire vessel from midwater like a model on a table. Trained divers thread the open interior; everyone else orbits the rails among barracuda and snapper before ascending the mast.
The moment you come for: Fully intact upright freighter, whole-ship visibility, easy interior for the trained
Topography: Clean sand off the south shore
Know before you splash
Hazards: Depth is honest for Bermuda; penetration only with wreck training and lights.
Nitrox: Worth it here: profiles sit in the range where enriched air meaningfully extends no-stop time (with the training to use it).
Who you'll meet
Great Barracuda
Lionfish
Porcupinefish
Green Sea Turtle
Nudibranchs
Humpback Whale
"Charted here" species were listed by our editors from the sources on this page. Counts are GBIF occurrence records: observations logged within about 5 km of the charted position since 1990, matched only against the species in our catalogue. They show what has been seen there, not a promise of what you will see.
For photographers
Wide angle: ★★★★★ · Macro: ★★☆☆☆ (editors' 1–5 rating of what this site gives each style of shooting)