Dive Review of Deefer Diving Carriacou/Mermaid in
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Deefer Diving Carriacou/Mermaid: "after Beryl - relaxed diving", Sep, 2025, by Michael Joest, Kehl, DE ( Top Contributor 51 reports with 31 Helpful votes). Report 13532.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling
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Comments	My first time with (a) Virgin and a hotel named Mermaid – would this be a good omen for a lovely vacation and awesome dives? Had chosen Carriacou where I had been on a package deal with Tobago and Grenada in 2011. I felt it had potential, I especially loved sister island with it´s beautiful reef sloping down. With good advice from Racquel Deefer this time I booked all parts of the trip myself, flights accommodation, ferry etc. It´s adventure and challenge but you can actually save money when you are free to pick from the flights they offer. A travel agent will not tell you there is a cheaper flight only 4 days prior to your schedule. Chose Deefer which in 2011 was still run by a German couple. Deefer warned “technically it´s off season”. On Facebook they had shown some dive when it was pouring, others around sisters and the jetty teeming with fish life. On my way I stopped in Grenada St George for 2 nights in a guesthouse to then catch the early Osprey ferry to C. Being in the Caribbean I imagined myself in a nice restaurant with a Pina Colada waiting for a lovely meal. This wasn´t to be the case, even on C, as most of the restaurants were closed, some didn´t even exist anymore. My Mermaid hotel had a lovely room and even better beach right in front, but they didn´t or couldn´t serve any meals at all, maybe due to Beryl or lack of employees. Since starvation wasn´t an option, every day I walked the streets to find a local place to grab some food. Some days it would only be chicken wings and chips or pork stew with rice. These were no 5 star meals but nour ... Subscribe to get the full story. Active subscribers continue reading here
Websites	Deefer Diving Carriacou
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	worldwide more than 100 destinations, mostly South Pacific and Asia, Africa and Caribbean
Closest Airport	there	Getting There	via Grenada by air or ferry
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, cloudy	Seas	calm
Water Temp	28-29°C / 82-84°F	Wetsuit Thickness	0
Water Visibility	8-30 M / 26-98 Ft
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	[Unspecified]
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
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By report author: Michael Joest in Kehl, DE at Sep 16, 2025 00:31 EST

pls note: the $ is 1.16 to the €, my fault they do a lot of lionfish spearing, which I don't favour and told them

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Dive Review of Deefer Diving Carriacou/Mermaid in Grenada/Carriacou

Deefer Diving Carriacou/Mermaid: "after Beryl - relaxed diving", Sep, 2025,

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