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 — 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
Green Sea Turtle
Lionfish
Porcupinefish
For photographers
Wide angle: ★★★★★ · Macro: ★★☆☆☆ — editors' 1–5 rating of what this site gives each style of shooting