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Scuba St. Lucia/Anse Chastenet, Jul, 2005, by Joe Mihm, Texas, USA . Report 1977.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$	N/A
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	Good- It was a beautiful resort. Great beach with cabannas and bar service, nice bar and a couple of places to eat. The view from our room was breathtaking! Best view of the Pitons from the resort. I took a walking tour of the plantation and it was great! Our guide was extremely knowledgeable. Bad- No AC. Our room was comfortable due to location...we always had a breeze. Steps....a couple of hundred up to my room from the restaurant level and a couple of hundred down to the beach from the restaurant level. The steps going to the beach were hand made and it seemed that no two were the same. I pretty much left a sweat trail everywhere I went. The service in the bar and restaurants was a little off. We asked for things in the restaurant and never recieved them. The answer to every question was yes but getting action on anything was a different matter. I think the servie was better if you were not on the meal plan. Fishing.... On the Anse Chastenet web site they claim to be in a marine park. To me that means not netting, trapping or any other type of fishing. The beach at the resort is not in the park. Fishermen show up every evening and use a tree on the beach to anchor their net. We saw several active fish traps at dive sites that were inside the alleged marine park. We paid a fee to dive in the marine park and got a little token for it. I wonder where the rest of the money went. A park boat came and checked our boat a couple of times but he drove right by the fishermen. Marine park my butt! Bottom line....I'd probably go back....it was diving.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Cozumel, Florida Keys, Aruba, Belize, Cayman Islands, Texas Flower Gardens, Turks & Caicos, Roatan, Utila, Indonesia
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, dry	Seas	calm, choppy, noCurrents
Water Temp	84-88°F / 29-31°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	40-120 Ft/ 12-37 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	Diving was severely restricted. You have to have a DM on every dive. Our DM limmited our dives to 40 to fifty minutes. Shore dives the same restrictions as boat dives.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 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
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	Rinse tank was a small plastic tub with less then five gallons of water in it. There was no camera prep area or dry area for cameras. There were several people taking pictures in our group, the tub has 5 small camera and my housed camera in it. We needed another tub. The response was "we'll take care of it". It never happened.

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Dive Review of Scuba St. Lucia/Anse Chastenet in St. Lucia

Scuba St. Lucia/Anse Chastenet, Jul, 2005,

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Dive Review of Scuba St. Lucia/Anse Chastenet in
St. Lucia