Dive Review of
Dive Statia/King's Well Inn in
St. Eustatius

All over Caribbean, PNG, Solomons, Fiji, Indonesia, Cocos, Galapagos

Dive Conditions

No Deco, told us how deep to go but no walls to speak of so no problem. At
first it seemed they wanted us to follow the dive leaders but after the
first day or so, we were able to go on our own. No touching, no gloves.    

No rinse buckets on boat, 1 large bucket at the shop, saw a few interesting
creatures, accomodating Flying Gurnards, several angels of all species, 1
brown seahorse, a few wrecks, some encrusted.  A new wreck will be good in
a few years, if you are into wrecks.  

Overall Rating

We were a group of 25, special chartered plane to get there, crowd and band
met us at the airport, big deal for us flying Sun Caribbean in!  Win and
Laura at King's Well Inn were very accomodating but weren't used to such a
large group.  We filled the place and had all 3 meals a day there.  They
worked their tails off!  Very nice rooms, overlooking the ocean, no A/C but
didn't need it.  The waves crashing was wonderful at nite.Reena and Rudy at
Dive Statia also were accomodating but not used to 25 divers at once.  Had
to borrow a boat to accomodate us on 2 boats.  Took 3 days to settle in to
the routine.  Had young, relatively inexperienced dive guides, not great at
pointing things out.  It was stressed that there was no touching and no
gloves allowed.  Then, on the 2nd dive, my wife saw Rudy grab a lobster buy
the antenna, pull it out of it's hole and wave it around to show everyone,
as it struggled to free itself.  She confronted him topside and his defense
was that he wasn't hurting it.  I guess the rules don't apply to him. 
Reported to the Marine Park officials.  There are a few interesting wrecks
(some encrusted, one brand new that will mature with age), average
Caribbean diving.  Old style Caribbean island that has not been built up,
that was nice, everyone smiles and waves at you.  At first, we were told no
spair-airs (unsure why)but they relented when pushed.  Wanted to control
our routes of dives at first but we are experienced and went our own way
after the first day without problems.  A few small critters, many angels,
couple of sharks, several turtles, 1 seahorse, overall, average Caribbean
diving from a spoiled Pacific diver. 

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