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Bill Tewes' Dive St. Vincent/Young Island: "Pleasant but nremarkable diving", Mar, 2018, by David Hill, MA, US ( Sr. Reviewer 9 reports with 3 Helpful votes). Report 10188 has 1 Helpful vote.
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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
Advanced
Comments	St. Vincent bills itself as the "critter capital" of the Caribbean. There are lots of critters there, but you will need lots of time and/or very good guides to see many. Anyone who has done critter diving in the Pacific will find this massively disappointing. Critters in the Pacific are generally large and out in the open. The critters in St. Vincent are small and in hiding. In four dives we saw exactly one -- a seahorse. To find critters you have to turn over countless rocks and bits of debris. A local diver told me he turns over an average of 100 rocks on a dive and finds two or three critters. Our dive guides made a few perfunctory efforts to look under things but most of the time just drifted along with us. There is heavy fishing around St. Vincent so few fish. Young Island is convenient to Dive St. Vincent, but look elsewhere for accommodation. Young Island is expensive, run down, has poor service and is currently for sale.
Websites	Bill Tewes' Dive St. Vincent
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Hawaii, Australia, Indonesia, New Guinea, Trobriand Islands, Santa Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, Samoa, Kiribati, Tahiti, Florida, Caymans, St. Martin, Bonaire, Bahamas, Virgin Islands, Seychelles, Red Sea, Tanzania, etc.
Closest Airport	St. Vincent	Getting There	Very difficult. Direct flights just once a week from Toronto and NYC in season. Otherwise through Barbados, which is a nightmare.
Dive Conditions
Weather	windy	Seas	choppy
Water Temp	-°F / -°C	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	70- Ft/ 21- M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	[Unspecified]
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	no
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	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	[None]

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Dive Review of Bill Tewes' Dive St. Vincent/Young Island in St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Bill Tewes' Dive St. Vincent/Young Island: "Pleasant but nremarkable diving", Mar, 2018,

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Dive Review of Bill Tewes' Dive St. Vincent/Young Island in
St. Vincent and the Grenadines