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Dive Review of Saba Deep/Juliana's in
Saba

Saba Deep/Juliana's, Jun, 2003,

by Jill Guthrie & Mike Webber, BC, Canada . Report 879.

No photos available at this time

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

Accommodations 4 stars Food 5 stars
Service and Attitude 5 stars Environmental Sensitivity N/A
Dive Operation 5 stars Shore Diving 1 stars
Snorkeling N/A
Value for $$ N/A
Beginners 3 stars
Advanced 5 stars
Comments Saba is a beautiful lush green clean small island. No litter or mosquitoes as they work to minimize both. The restaurants were GREAT and usually a special somewhere each night...went to Y2K, Brigadoons, and Swinging Door for dinners and Tropics for breakfast and had lunch often above Saba Deep's operation, ...all had FANTASTIC quality...Best food we ever had on a holiday.

Juliana's Orchid Cottage was way more than the two of us needed with beautiful deck looking over ocean,(TV VCR etc), with real neat outdoor shower and toilet room... VERY PRIVATE..

Mike Myers and Big Mike ran the best dive operation we have ever experienced. Big Mike seems to organize all your equipment before and between and after dives without you even noticing while relaying great stories... and keeping the short boat rides FUN.

Pre-dive descriptions great, usually 6-8 divers, & boat is designed for easy comfort. Dives all great and they checked where you've been to ensure variety and were willing to change location if needed based on actual conditions...

You can dive at your own pace. Both Mikes dove if needed (or for fun) and respected their marine park, they would go out of the way to pick up any floating garbage (which was rare as very clean everywhere). They would dive as many dives as you wanted, usually 3 per day and night-dives if desired.

Above water, hiking is also very nice and the Sandy Cruz trail is a must for last non-dive day (if you bring your bathing suite, end hike with nice lunch and swim at the Queens Garden!).

We would love to go back to Saba again.

Reporter and Travel

Dive Experience 51-100 dives
Where else diving St. Lucia, Cozumel, Figi, Grand Turk
Closest Airport Getting There

Dive Conditions

Weather sunny Seas calm
Water Temp 80-82°F / 27-28°C Wetsuit Thickness 0
Water Visibility 60-100 Ft/ 18-30 M

Dive Policy

Dive own profile yes
Enforced diving restrictions Depth - encouraged to keep at DM's level or less
Liveaboard? no Nitrox Available? N/A

What I Saw

Sharks Lots Mantas None
Dolphins None Whale Sharks None
Turtles 1 or 2 Whales None
Corals 5 stars Tropical Fish 4 stars
Small Critters 3 stars Large Fish 4 stars
Large Pelagics 4 stars

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

Subject Matter 3 stars Boat Facilities 5 stars
Overall rating for UWP's 4 stars Shore Facilities 3 stars
UW Photo Comments Helped with entry and exiting with Camera and pointed out things underwater.
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