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Dive Review of Bohio Dive Resort/Bohio Resort in
Turks and Caicos/Grand Turk

Bohio Dive Resort/Bohio Resort: "Disappointing Diving in Grand Turk", Apr, 2022,

by Jeanette Hartshorn, MO, US (Contributor Contributor 19 reports with 17 Helpful votes). Report 12212 has 1 Helpful vote.

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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

Accommodations 3 stars Food 3 stars
Service and Attitude 2 stars Environmental Sensitivity 3 stars
Dive Operation 2 stars Shore Diving N/A
Snorkeling N/A
Value for $$ 2 stars
Beginners 2 stars
Advanced 1 stars
Comments In Mar 2022, it was still a bit difficult (due to COVID pandemic) to get entry into many countries with dive destinations. To enter Grand Turk, we had to purchase additional Government mandated medical insurance, even though we have good medical coverage. Also required were negative COVID test results.
Bohio Resort is a nice looking resort property on a quiet beachfront, north of Cockburn town. The accommodations are very basic but clean and with nice ocean views. The waters are beautiful shades of aqua, teal, and blue. The dive package that we purchased included breakfast and lunch. The food is very good, the service is very slow. We had dinner here a couple of times, but it is quite pricey. There are some other options for dinner on island, besides those in Cockburn town, which are small local kitchens that serve up some great food. They can be hard to find, many are not open every day, and many close early by 7pm. There are bicycles at the resort that you can borrow to cruise around the island. They won’t let you use them at and after sunset (which is around 6:30pm) though, so if you go elsewhere for dinner, plan on walking or getting a taxi. The island is so small that a taxi ride might take 5minutes, but you’ll be waiting awhile to get it, so we opted to walk.
Some of our luggage got delayed 1 day from Provo (via Intercaribbean Airways- flights were included in Bohio package), as the weight limits for the planes are restrictive for passengers as they prioritize cargo over luggage going to Grand Turk. The dive package only includes 10 dives for a week’s stay (no afternoon or evening dives), and there’s not much to do in the afternoon. The divemasters here are all contracted by the resort, depending on how busy the resort is. We had 3 different divemasters over 10 dives, and they all had different dive styles. We enjoyed diving with one, while another one was more interested in shooting photos with his GoPro than paying attention to divers. They hunt the lionfish routinely, so the bigger fish including groupers and barracudas come looking for some handouts.
Unfortunately, over the course of the dive week, what we noticed was that was a lot of coral damage and unhealthy corals. Though we saw an array of reef life, it was not abundant – trunkfish, squirrelfish, hamlets, filefish, butterflyfish, cowfish, grunts, sailors choice, queen and French angels, some stingrays, flounder, several reef sharks, some barracuda, spotted drumfish, a couple of young hawksbill turtles, a lot of flamingo tongues on soft corals, some isopods on soldierfish and other fish.
When I returned home from this trip and downloaded my underwater photographs, I compared them to those I took 10years ago when we dived here. My pictures confirmed how much the reef system had degraded over the last 10 years. Grand Turk is a cute island that’s nice to visit once. But in my opinion it’s a better beach experience than a dive experience.
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Websites Bohio Dive Resort   Bohio Resort

Reporter and Travel

Dive Experience 501-1000 dives
Where else diving Bahamas, Florida, Atlantic, Dominica, Saba, St Maarten, St Kitts, Grand Turk, Cayman Islands, Mexico, Indonesia, Maldives, Hawaii, Palmyra Atoll, Cocos Island, Galapagos, Belize, Roatan
Closest Airport Grand Turk Airport Getting There Miami to Provo PLS

Dive Conditions

Weather sunny, windy, rainy Seas surge
Water Temp 78-78°F / 26-26°C Wetsuit Thickness 5
Water Visibility 25-75 Ft/ 8-23 M

Dive Policy

Dive own profile no
Enforced diving restrictions no deco, stay with divemaster
Liveaboard? no Nitrox Available? N/A

What I Saw

Sharks None Mantas None
Dolphins None Whale Sharks None
Turtles > 2 Whales None
Corals 2 stars Tropical Fish 2 stars
Small Critters 2 stars Large Fish 1 stars
Large Pelagics 1 stars

Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

Subject Matter 2 stars Boat Facilities 1 stars
Overall rating for UWP's 2 stars Shore Facilities 1 stars
UW Photo Comments there was a rinse tank for cameras onshore but they didn't enforce keeping it for cameras so other gear ended up in it. They didn't change the water often either.
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