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Bill Tewes' Dive St. Vincent: "NO BETTER CRITTER PLACE IN THE CARIBBEAN", Sep, 2021, by Ray Haberman, TX, US ( Sr. Contributor 22 reports with 7 Helpful votes). Report 11628 has 1 Helpful vote.
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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	I came to see, I saw, I returned and finally I stayed. Been diving here for many years. I call it an extended vacation. For big fish, you have to dive the Grenadine Islands but for "critters" the big island of St Vincent has been rated by Dive Magazine as number 1 in the Caribbean and number 10 in the world. The shore dive available is the House Reef in front of the dive shop but is worth the short walk. Go to [raymondhaberman.smugmug.com link] to see what I have seen. I do mostly macro pictures on "critters." Pictures are posted by the day and show what I observed during that dive. The rest of this report is not an accurate description of the island conditions. Come in the rainy season and you are going to get lots of rain and sun and wind and clouds and dry spells. The water could be calm, choppy, surge and maybe some current. Current is not an every day all day thing. Come in the dry season and you will get the same conditions but less rain. Winter water temps run from 78-82 and in the summer you will get 82-85. It seems that most divers prefer a wetsuit or skin, about a 3-5mm. I have seen 1 shark in 18 years, maybe a dozen mantas, some turtles, no whales or whale sharks. Water vis is usually 100'+ but depends on weather conditions.
Websites	Bill Tewes' Dive St. Vincent
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Saba, Bermuda, Bahamas, Costa Rica, Belize, Aruba, Statia, St Kitts, PNG, Yap, Truk, Palau, Australia, Bonaire, Cozumel, Belize, Roatan, Grand Turk, Puerto Rico, Florida and Lake Superior, Lake Michigan and Lake Geneva, WI.
Closest Airport	Argyle International	Getting There	Several Non stops available from the US and Canada
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy, rainy, cloudy, dry	Seas	calm, choppy, surge, currents, no currents
Water Temp	-°F / -°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	- Ft/ - M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Prove your capable and return to the boat with at least 500PSI
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	no
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
UW Photo Comments	The dive shop is an extremely old building that is rented from Young Island and was not built for a dive shop. All camera work needs to be done in your hotel room. The only thing for cameras on the boat is a rinse tank. The shop has a rinse tank for dive gear but not for wet suits. It is the weak spot of the operation, but shouldn't be a deterrent to coming down. The main hotels are a very short walk from the shop.

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

Bill Tewes' Dive St. Vincent: "NO BETTER CRITTER PLACE IN THE CARIBBEAN", Sep, 2021,

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