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Dive Antilles: "Beautiful varied diving with friendly, efficient new dive operation", Nov, 2021, by Keith Willmott, FL, US ( Sr. Reviewer 8 reports with 8 Helpful votes). Report 11852.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations	N/A	Food	N/A
Service and Attitude	N/A	Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
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Comments	This is an excellent new dive operation based at Paradise Beach Hotel, run by Kerry and James, who are young, energetic, generous, knowledgeable and made us feel like family. Eternally grateful to Kerry for pointing out, while I was inquiring about diving, that St Vincent had a 48 hr quarantine, which I didn't know at the time. This led to us spending half our trip at a 'bubble resort' on Bequia, thus reducing the amount of time we potentially had with them, so we only got to spend a couple of days diving with Dive Antilles. We were the only divers on their boat, which can probably accommodate 6 divers, so we were definitely spoiled. Appreciate that they asked us what we wanted to see, then took us to several sites to look for the small creatures for which St Vincent is renowned. We dived with either James or Kerry, both of whom were patient, observant and great company. Dive sites ranged from sandy bottom with isolated plains of Caulerpa and coral bommies (Petit Byahaut and Lady Susan), to sloping reefs, pinnacles (the Pinnacle) and rock walls and boulders (the spectacular Camden Park). Great diversity of hard and soft coral everywhere, Camden Park particularly notable for the overhangs, caves, walls covered with gorgonians, lots of small tropical fish. In the sandy bottom of Petit Byahaut we found Black-spotted Eel, plenty of morays, lobsters, and in the sand at Lady Susan James pointed out numerous Swallowtail Headshield Slugs, octopus, lobsters. Night dive at Indian Bay involved a sandy bottom with sheer rock walls, with basket stars, sleeping fish, decorator crabs, Luria cinerea pretending to be a sponge. The Pinnacle featured huge barrel sponges and gorgonians. James gave us a quick spear-fishing lesson then took a bucket and we speared numerous individuals of invasive lionfish on our last dive - James cleaned and barbecued them that evening, as we reminisced about our couple of days wonderful diving with them, accompanied by a fine sunset and several rum punches.
Websites	Dive Antilles
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 from Miami to Argyle Airport.
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, dry	Seas	calm, choppy
Water Temp	25-26°C / 77-79°F	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	15-30 M / 49-98 Ft
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	Keep with dive leader, start ascent on 700 psi
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 07:57 EST

More beautiful photos, thanks for sharing

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Dive Review of Dive Antilles in St. Vincent and the Grenadines/St Vincent

Dive Antilles: "Beautiful varied diving with friendly, efficient new dive operation", Nov, 2021,

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Dive Review of Dive Antilles in
St. Vincent and the Grenadines/St Vincent