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Castle Comfort Lodge: "This might be the best diving in the Caribbean!", Nov, 2016, by Roger D Roth, OH, US ( Contributor 16 reports with 8 Helpful votes). Report 9345.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
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Comments	This was my first visit to Dominica and I was delightfully surprised at the marine environment, especially the HUGE numbers of 5-6' tall barrel sponges, HUGE numbers of beautiful yellow tube and elephant ear sponges. Fish schools were large (albeit some smaller fish like chromis) but schools of black-bar soldierfish and Schoolmaster snappers were abundant and they had some of the largest yellowtail snappers I've seen anywhere in the world. There were a lot of macro critters ranging from a couple of seahorses, many pipefishes, many species of gobies, blennies, shrimp, and bristleworms with even a few gawdy clown crabs each with different markings. Different species of lobsters were abundant during the day or night as were many different species of eels like spotted morays, sharptail, gold-spotted, and garden eels. Controlled collection of lionfish was allowed for some with many different preparations of dinners served by the chef later. All dives averaged 60-90 minutes each. The dive guides are very attentive and good at spotting any sized critters for photographers and videographers. Night dives were highlighted by a slender filefish, juvenile French angels, flounders, electric rays, southern stingrays, dozens of large spider crabs and box crabs as well as a few red-lipped batfish! After filming a bright orangeball corallimorph I followed a spotted moray while it hunted for its dinner. Dive Dominica has five different boats ranging from one that can take just a few divers to a couple of boats that will accommodate 8-16 divers. There are rinse tanks on shore at the dive shop for gear as well as separate ones for camera gear. Dive gear can be cleaned and then safely kept at the dive shop for the next scheduled dives. Land tours included a visit to their open market on Saturday mornings, a few waterfalls, hot springs, jungle hikes, rappelling, and of course their dolphin and whale watching trip produced spotted dolphins and false killer whales playing around the boat along with some sperm whales arching for their deep dives with backs and tails high! ("Stingray" has upper and lower decks, front and rear, and accommodates maybe up to 100+ viewers.) Fruit punch and rum punch was served on the way back to the resort. I visited in November, so coming off of their rainy season led to lower visibility (thus great muck diving), but I'm looking forward to visiting again between February and June for much better vis and spectacular wide angle shots.
Websites	Castle Comfort Lodge
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Fiji, Indonesia, Hawaii, Caribbean, Caymans, Belize, Honduras, Red Sea, and more
Closest Airport	Dominica International	Getting There	San Juan to Dominica
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, cloudy, dry	Seas	calm, surge, no currents
Water Temp	85-°F / 29-°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	30-80 Ft/ 9-24 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Computer divers had no restrictions on depths or bottom times.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	Schools	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 2	Whales	> 2
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	Having serviced many different famous UWP's through the years, the staff is very careful with camera equipment and all of their boats have large fresh water rinse buckets for even the larger camera rigs. These are separate from mask rinse buckets. The dive shop also has large fresh water rinse tanks for camera gear.

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Dive Review of Castle Comfort Lodge in Dominica

Castle Comfort Lodge: "This might be the best diving in the Caribbean!", Nov, 2016,

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Dive Review of Castle Comfort Lodge in
Dominica