Dive Review of Big Blue/Beaches in
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Big Blue/Beaches, Jun, 2006, by Mel McCombie, CT, United States ( Sr. Contributor 27 reports with 17 Helpful votes). Report 2548.
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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	Since we stayed at Beaches for a family reunion, we wisely chose not to dive with them but to go with Big Blue. It's a superb operation. The cost is a good 50% higher than other island dive shops but one can dive one's own profile with no sense of being hurried and the surface intervals were long and filled with food. Our dives averaged 75 minutes. Big Blue is also an environmentally active company--a green operation--and thus worth the extra money. The corals in Provo have clearly suffered from algal growth, probably linked with the number of large hotels and condos built in the past few years (with their sewage and waste); there were fewer big fish than in years past (I've dived there since the late 1980s). Although I have warm memories of Provo diving, it has clearly deteriorated in the past 15 years.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	all over the world
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm
Water Temp	82-0°F / 28--18°C	Wetsuit Thickness	0
Water Visibility	40-0 Ft/ 12-0 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	none beyond common sense
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	1 or 2
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 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	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	[None]

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Dive Review of Big Blue/Beaches in Turks and Caicos/Caribbean

Big Blue/Beaches, Jun, 2006,

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Dive Review of Big Blue/Beaches in
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