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Bill Tewes' Dive St. Vincent/Mariners Hotel: "Good Variety & Value Caribbean Diving", Mar, 2018, by Michael Fritz, NJ, US ( Reviewer 5 reports with 10 Helpful votes). Report 10245 has 3 Helpful votes.
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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
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	Mariners Hotel was an excellent place to stay and Dive St. Vincent offered a good package deal. There were lots of great local restaurants within walking distance and the dive shop was a short stroll away. Jackie ran the dive shop and was friendly and helpful with advice on the island and arranged our package. We did 12 dives over 6 days at a nice variety of sites. We had only 3-5 divers on the boat each day with 2 divemasters (DJ and Callie), so never felt crowded or rushed. They use steel 72 tanks which make me a bit nervous, but at least you can use a lot less weight. Tank fills were consistently low 2200-2500 but most dives were not deep so dive times were still around an hour. On most dives DJ would lead us as a loose group and Callie would hang behind and often spear any lionfish he spotted (you could take them for dinner if you wished). There was an unusually big swell throughout the islands while we were there and this caused a lot of surge (and even some damage on some other islands). We couldn't dive some of the shallower "critter spots" because of the surge but we spent more time on some of the nicer reef sites which had good topography and lots of corals and sponges. We still saw a lot of unusual critters (which is why we went there!) including many species new to me. Some highlights were Frogfish, Seahorses, Golden Hamlet, Bullseye Lobster, White-snout Pipefish, and 2 baby Long-armed Octopi as well as lots of blennies and gobies I'm still working on IDing. Overall the coral reefs and tropical fish were better than I'd expected and there were enough new critter surprises to keep the diving interesting day after day. There are also plenty of land excursions to keep us busy after our morning dives. We were even lucky enough to see the rare endemic St. Vincent Parrot while hiking the Vermont Nature Trail. Taxis and water taxis are abundant and reasonably priced.
Websites	Bill Tewes' Dive St. Vincent Mariners Hotel
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Hawaii, Most of Caribbean, Mexico, Fiji, Palau, Solomons, Indonesia, GBR, Galapagos, Philippines
Closest Airport	Argyle International Airport, St Vincent	Getting There	USA to Barbados to St Vincent on LIAT or SVG(preferred)
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy	Seas	choppy, surge
Water Temp	79-80°F / 26-27°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	40-70 Ft/ 12-21 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Come up with at least 500psi
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	no
What I Saw
Sharks	None	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	N/A
UW Photo Comments	Fresh water rinse under one of the benches, no dedicated camera table. Camera rig carefully handed to diver after back roll by dive guide.

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By Daniel Zielinski in NY, US at Jan 07, 2019 15:27 EST

Any opportunity for another dive in the afternoon?

By Daniel Zielinski in NY, US at Jan 07, 2019 15:27 EST

Any opportunity for another dive in the afternoon?

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Dive Review of Bill Tewes' Dive St. Vincent/Mariners Hotel in St. Vincent and the Grenadines/St. Vincent

Bill Tewes' Dive St. Vincent/Mariners Hotel: "Good Variety & Value Caribbean Diving", Mar, 2018,

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Dive Review of Bill Tewes' Dive St. Vincent/Mariners Hotel in
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