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Bill Tewes' Dive St. Vincent: "Fantastic creatures and expert local knowledge", Nov, 2021, by Keith Willmott, FL, US ( Sr. Reviewer 8 reports with 8 Helpful votes). Report 11851.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
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Service and Attitude	N/A	Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
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Comments	Just a single day diving with Dive St Vincent, 2 morning dives and a night dive, all we could manage on our short trip. We were some of the first visitors since covid, just us diving and a couple of other experienced underwater photographers who have dived with this operation for years. Boat left from the Young Island dock a couple of minutes walk down from the Paradise Beach Hotel where we stayed. Slightly unusual requirement not to leave anything of value on the boat, since everybody on the boat was diving. Really appreciated being asked by our dive leader DJ what we wanted to see, in our case the small creatures that have made St Vincent unique among Caribbean dive destinations. At this request DJ's expression lit up, obviously crawling around the sand and peering under rocks hunting for minute creatures is one of his favorite activities. Unfortunately, heavy rain the night before prevented us visiting a classic muck dive site up the coast, which is adjacent to a river mouth, so instead we went to a couple of sites just west around the coast - Steps and Turtle Bay. First site was a rocky reef with sheer walls and overhangs dropping to sand at 20 m, with a flat top scored with gullies around 12 m. Lots of hard and soft corals, spectacular gorgonians on the walls and overhangs, and great diversity of colorful sponges. DJ immediately found a brilliant red frogfish resting on an equally brightly colored sponge, evidently it had been there a few weeks. Second site was Turtle Bay, a gently sloping reef with sandy patches and small coral bommies, each of which was a small universe of life. We spent both dives moving very slowly, inspecting every inch of the reef, periodically congregating when someone found something notable, mostly DJ and our underwater photographer companion. Second dive finished in the shallows, a mantis shrimp in a yellow sponge, rock-flipping revealing a few crabs and flatworms. Wonderful to spend such a relaxing time in the company of two such knowledgeable people who evidently so enjoyed spotting and sharing the reef's more obscure and bizarre creatures. Third dive was a night dive with dive leader Cally, just off Young Island, a few hundred m from our hotel and the dock. A sandy bottom with Caulerpa at around 12 m depth, interspersed with small coral and sponge outcrops. Couple of octopus hiding beside the remains of their prey, several sponge-carrying crabs, lots of sleeping fish, King Helmet eating an sea urchin, Luria cinerea patrolling on the sand, and a cephalaspid (Navanax gemmatus) at the end of the dive. Once again, amazing diversity of crustaceans, and the kind of dive where you see something different every time.
Websites	Bill Tewes' Dive St. Vincent
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	Florida, Belize, Panama (Coiba, Pearl Is) St Vincent and Grenadines, UK, Red Sea (Sharm), Myanmar, Sulawesi (Wakatobi), Philippines (Mindoro, Palawan), Solomons (Guadalcanal), New Zealand (Poor Knights), Papua New Guinea
Closest Airport	Argyle Airport, St Vincent	Getting There	Direct flight Miami-Argyle Airport.
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm, choppy, no currents
Water Temp	25-25°F / -4--4°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	10-20 M / 33-66 Ft
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Very relaxed diving, everyone did their own thing but nobody went far from the dive guide or boat.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish	N/A
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	Camera container on boat.

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By Craig A Wood in PA, US at Jan 24, 2022 07:54 EST

Beautiful photos, again

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

Bill Tewes' Dive St. Vincent: "Fantastic creatures and expert local knowledge", Nov, 2021,

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Dive Review of Bill Tewes' Dive St. Vincent in
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