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Oasis Divers/Osprey Inn.: "Grand Turk reopened. Osprey Inn is timeless.", Mar, 2022, by Bill Schlegel, MO, US ( Contributor 19 reports with 17 Helpful votes). Report 11870.
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Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	This was the 4th trip I can remember to Grand Turk over the last 25 years. Went because a large group of friends had the week booked. Will divide report into two main sections. First is travel issues and the Osprey Inn. The second part in next paragraphs pertains to Oasis Divers. Like the rest of the world, T&C islands is on the tail end of the latest COVID surge and I have to admit that their COVID related travel clearance protocols work smoothly. 31 travelers were in our group and none had any travel and immigration problems. If you go, just carefully study the TCI website. Provide what they want. No problem. The connections through Delta and the local island hopper were smooth. The Osprey Inn was a quaint and wonderful trip into the past. Deja Vu for me. Clean. Great service. Unlimited hot water. Nice pool and patio area. Food was very good. We and a package with breakfast included and other meals extra. The room service was excellent. Management was attentive to the usual questions. The beach in front is one of the most beautiful in the world; no kidding. There are gates around the poolside patio to keep the friendly island dogs and donkeys out of the poolside area. Bar and table service are very good. Overall cost was reasonable. There are several other excellent restaurants within walking distance of the Osprey and we enjoyed them for lunch and dinner. The Sandbar bar, next to the dive shop. This is about 200 year stroll down the picturesque street and next to Oasis Divers. The Secret Garden restaurant and the Grand Turk Inn provided high end meals. Recommended. The diving was excellent. The divemasters let your five your own profile although divers were encouraged to follow close enough to surface at the end of the dive more or less as a group. Divemasters were attentive, not overbearing and pointed outlets of critters. Fish and marine live were notable for a lower general reef critter concentration than desired but octopus, rays, sharks, turtles and cool macro critters were common. Coral was less than health but more or less similar to most of the Caribbean. Just not a lot of reef fish. We did a fair amount of Lionfish hunting with Hawaiian slings. I cannot criticize the wildlife encounters with reef critters when there were occasional dolphin fly-bys and frequent reef shark encounters. The whale watch snorkel encounter will let you get in the water and snorkel with whales if you book during the winter months. The dive equipment was a different story. On the first day, several of us noted a strange taste to the air we were breathing. This was the first day only. We felt it was an oil taste. This was in association with overfilled cylinders. The Aluminum 80's we were using the first day were filled 3900 to 4000 psi. This was was mentioned to the operator and corrected the next day. Several of the boats had engine trouble. Two that I was on became disabled at sea and had to be towed back, sometime to other parts of the island with divers being bussed back to the Oasis Divers shop.. The dive boats were large pontoon boats and provided lots of room. Some sun shade. Bottled water available. Oxygen and cell phone communication (luckily) available on board. I like to think that much of these equipment problems were related to a dive operation that had been essentially shut down for a year or two. We were the first large group to show up in 2 years, as I understand it.
Websites	Oasis Divers
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	About everywhere. This trip to Grand Turk left me just short of 1700 dives. Been contributing to Undercurrent for over 25 years.
Closest Airport	Grand Turk	Getting There	Fly to Provodenciales (PLS) from several North American air hubs. Island hopper to Grand Turk.
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, dry	Seas	calm, surge
Water Temp	77-80°F / 25-27°C	Wetsuit Thickness	2
Water Visibility	50-100 Ft/ 15-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	As I remember initial briefing: "Try to stay above 100 feet. No planned decompression diving. Back on boat at about a hour out of courtesy to others. Stay with buddy.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	no
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
Dolphins	1 or 2	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	> 2
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	No boat facilities other than a clean camera bucket. There is adequate WiFi at the Osprey Hotel. I would advise photographers to keep their systems on at all times, especially along the excellent walls where shark and dolphin fly by's can occur very quickly. Camera "boot up time" can be a killer. There are even occasional whale fly by's but our group missed that.

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Dive Review of Oasis Divers/Osprey Inn. in Turks and Caicos/Grand Turk

Oasis Divers/Osprey Inn.: "Grand Turk reopened. Osprey Inn is timeless.", Mar, 2022,

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Dive Review of Oasis Divers/Osprey Inn. in
Turks and Caicos/Grand Turk