Dive Review of Sea Saba/Iris House in
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Sea Saba/Iris House, Jan, 2009, by Mike Frayn, FL, USA ( Reviewer 3 reports). Report 5195.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$
Beginners
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Comments	Getting there requires a short but pricey flight from St. Martin and a landing on a very short runway on Saba. The island is basically a mountain with a road carved around the edge. No rental cars are available so you take cabs (which are minivans) everywhere you go. I guess they don't want any tourists driving a car off the edge of a cliff. Lynn at Sea Saba was great. She handled everything for us while we were there. We got picked up at our house every morning and would stop at the dive shop on the way to the harbor. She would ask us where we wanted to eat that night and make reservations for us. On our departure date she arranged for us to spend our downtime between flights in St. Martin at a beach hotel instead of sitting in the airport. We stayed in Iris House, just down the road from the dive shop. It was an old 2 bedroom house with a small private pool and two porches with fantastic views. The house was well equipped and all we needed to do was stop at the grocery store for a few supplies. The dive operation has two 36 foot Newton (or Newton-like) boats. The longest ride we had to a dive site was about 10 minutes. The coral was very healthy, probably attributed to the fact that they made Saba a marine park just about the same time the first diver hit the water. Visibility was very good. The pinnacles were the best diving but the current had to cooperate in order to dive those. Overall I thought Saba diving was the best I have experienced in the Caribbean. If you decide to go I would recommend contacting Beth at Dive Saba Travel and let her make the arrangements.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Cozumel, Cayman Islands, Roatan, Utila, Florida Keys, Bahamas, Curacao, North Carolina wrecks
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	rainy	Seas	choppy
Water Temp	-°F / -°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	75-100 Ft/ 23-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Stay within recreational limits and dive computer restrictions.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 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	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	[None]

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Dive Review of Sea Saba/Iris House in Saba

Sea Saba/Iris House, Jan, 2009,

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Dive Review of Sea Saba/Iris House in
Saba