First the shop itself..
It's a great wee shop down there. When I was there it was $40 for the first dive, then $35 for each dive after that. The shop is well equiped... surprisingly so considering how remote they are. Standards were good and the attitude of the shop was great. There was a 'silly' when I was there, (there's always one idiot), but the way the staff in the shop responded was exactly as I would have wished. There's a resort run by a couple of (very) Texans (I think) which owns the shop, but I didn't stay there - only met them a couple of times...
As for the diving..
I was just passing through, partying a bit, so I only did half a dozen dives or so. Shark hole was good, with various rays, reef and nurse sharks around, though I was told there was sometimes the odd hammerhead there. Good swim throughs on the way there and back. The two other sites I remember were.. Tarpon Alley; dead coral but big groups of smaller fish like glassy lookdowns.. and another site.. don't remember the name, but huge numbers of large oceanic trigger fish, midnight parrot fish and shoals of barracuda. A lot of the sites seem to be GPS located offshore but are close by. There's one site that everyone told me I had to go to when I was there, but I can't remember the name now, becuase it was too expensie to go there... it's apparently 17kms away and unless you can get a bunch of people together it's just too expensive. (The boats are skiffs with 2 stroke outboards, well set up for diving, but gas hungry) Overall there seems to be quite a mix of sites, but be warned, there also seems to be significant periods when diving is not possible. You whould check up with them about when this is more likely to happen. I seem to remember being told they can't dive for about 3-4 moths a year total. My summation of the area would be.. Ok coral, good fish.
The island itself.
Only 700 people on the island, one motorbike and no police. The no police bit means 'island justice' (ie. none from what I could see) People frequently carry guns and the path to the other side of island is... unsettling... at night.
Nice place overall, and the diving is good.
Hope this is useful
