Dive Review of Grand Turk Diving Co./Osprey Beach Hotel in
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Grand Turk Diving Co./Osprey Beach Hotel, Apr, 2008, by Barbara Shively, MD, USA ( Sr. Reviewer 7 reports). Report 4109.
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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	Algrove (Smitty) Smith finally, after many years with Sea Eye Diving, has his own dive shop, Grand Turk Diving Co. in the same building that used to house Sea Eye. My husband and I have been diving all over the Caribbean for many years and with Smitty for about 12 years. I consider him the best divemaster anywhere! Based on personal experience, he ranks tops as an instructor, a proficient and careful divemaster, a super spotter of 'critters', and a darned nice guy -- this doesn't even cover his frequent equipment repairs to our gear that was messed up during servicing at home! Everyone I know who has ever dived with Smitty considers him the best. His new operation has all new equipment including great new tanks that allowed us to drop 2 to 4 lbs. each from our weights. As an underwater photographer I often ask Smitty to look out for some particular 'critter' I want to shoot and more often than not he finds it. In fact he finds things I can't even see like very tiny pipehorses and pipefish! Don't go expecting to keep to a strict schedule -- almost all of our dives are more than an hour bottom time with many of them going to an hour and a quarter or longer. Repeat customers become friends for life -- it's just that sort of place and that sort of operation.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Many Caribbean islands, Florida, Hawaii
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	choppy
Water Temp	77-79°F / 25-26°C	Wetsuit Thickness	1
Water Visibility	75-100 Ft/ 23-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	None for known, repeat divers.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	Schools	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 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		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	Very short boat rides and surface intervals on shore at hotel make on board facilities unimportant. Smitty is great about handling our camera gear.

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Dive Review of Grand Turk Diving Co./Osprey Beach Hotel in Turks and Caicos/Grand Turk

Grand Turk Diving Co./Osprey Beach Hotel, Apr, 2008,

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Dive Review of Grand Turk Diving Co./Osprey Beach Hotel in
Turks and Caicos/Grand Turk