Dive Operators in Aruba, Bonaire, Dominica & Grenada

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Socref124

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DeLand, Florida
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We are going on a cruise in Jan and the Caribbean Princess will be stopping in Aruba, Boniare, Dominica and Grenada. We will be diving at all four of these stops and are looking for recommendatios for dive operators. Any assistance will be highly appreciated.
 
Just got back from the same trip. We sailed it in reverse order. St Thomas we dove with Blue Island divers. They provided the fastest processing of the dives. They brought the requested equipment on the dive boat and all transactions were handled there. We dove 2 sites, the first I didn't get the name but I think it was navy barges or kennedy by its location. Second was Scat and it was a neat dive with lots of swim thru's.
Dominica we dove with AlDive. Billy (owner) was there for the first dive for a meet and great. He had Alan (maybe) lead both dives. We dove witches point and a combo of 2 sites on the second dive. One of the best dive locations I have dove, maybe beat Belize. Great dive profile as well. You drop into an area around 30 feet max. Good place to do a quick check on gear, slip over the edge for a wall dive that drops into blue. I only dove it to 80 feet to conserve air and dive time. Color was unreal, lots of fish species and activity. Expertly lead so you could really explore the wall vs swimming by one. Came back to the 30 foot area around 1K PSI which was nice as they sat back and let you explore around and run your tank down. Second dive wasn't a wall dive but a nice profile that moved us across two dive sites. Once again at a pace that didn't feel like we were finning to a location as much as exploring across.
Dove grenada. Wasn't pleased as when I left the dive shop I was under the impression I was diving the shockem and the statue garden next. Ended up not doing either one. First dive was over a small wreck and the sunken motor was cool, drift dove that seemed a bit rushed, fairly boring reef. Second dive was only OK poor visibility, we lost 4 divers on the dive. Last 20 minutes were good, was brought up with 1200 PSI left (kind of had to or we wouldn't have made our ship leaving)
Bonaire we just walked to Divi Divi Dive (400 Yards) and shore dove. Bonaire made the list of places to go back to.
Aruba I dove with Fly N Dive,First dive was Harbor Gardens visibility was fairly poor, around 15-20 feet at entry that cleared up as we drifted. Regrouped on bottom and had a nice 54 minute drift dive to a max depth or around 78 mostly in the 45 foot range. Second dive we dove the YS-11 airplane. It was a neat dive followed by a drift dive. This time a 58 minute dive. Dive master was excellant, slow paced, exploring felt encouraged.
 

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