St. Vincent and the Grenadines, O.K. for new diver?

[divetraveler]

Hi Everybody,
Would like to take a trip to SVG and do some diving. I intend to dive from St. Vincent and one or two of the Grenadines. This will be my husbands first time out and I was wondering if there are some decent novice sites available? Thanks for your time and advice. Happy travels and safe dives to one and all.

 

[scubajane]

Great place for a new diver. I took my 12 yr old son there. Shallow dive sites, no current and Bill Tewes is great for picking out things you would miss on your own

 

[Damselfish]

Second that, St Vincent is a great place for a new diver.

Only Grenadine I've done is Bequia, I think there's plenty of suitable sites there (but about half on the sites we did were on the advanced side due to depth or currents, so discuss it with the op.)

 

[awestholm]

the Tobago Cays, near Mayreau, form a pretty shallow lagoon with some pretty nice reef life. The outer area of the cays supposedly has a great drop off for more advanced divers, but haven't been to it (when I was there, I was snorkeling)... at any rate, your husband should be plenty comfortable in the lagoon area. I'm sure one of the dive ops on St. Vincent is running down there.

Moon hole on Bequia is probably pretty decent as well... nice reef, depth of probably about 40fsw, and you've got all that neat stone-age-like architecture to gawk at during your surface interval. Check with the op before going there, though... the wave action can be a little rough occasionally.

 

[Damselfish]

the Tobago Cays, near Mayreau, form a pretty shallow lagoon with some pretty nice reef life. The outer area of the cays supposedly has a great drop off for more advanced divers, but haven't been to it (when I was there, I was snorkeling)... at any rate, your husband should be plenty comfortable in the lagoon area. I'm sure one of the dive ops on St. Vincent is running down there.

I've heard the Tobago Cays are nice but you'd have to use the operator down there (Grenadines Dive on Union Island) unless you're sailing with your own compressor or something. Saint Vincent dive ops do not run to the Tobago Cays, that's way south in the Grenadine chain. They don't even come close to covering all of St Vincent. The ferry to the next major island south, Bequia, takes about an hour, and the Tobago Cays are like 4 times as far.

There's actually only one dive op on Saint Vincent as far as I know (Dive St Vincent.) There has been another at times (Dive Fantasea) but it comes and goes and as far as I know it's gone right now.

 

[awestholm]

I've heard the Tobago Cays are nice but you'd have to use the operator down there (Grenadines Dive on Union Island) unless you're sailing with your own compressor or something. Saint Vincent dive ops do not run to the Tobago Cays, that's way south in the Grenadine chain. They don't even come close to covering all of St Vincent. The ferry to the next major island south, Bequia, takes about an hour, and the Tobago Cays are like 4 times as far.

There's actually only one dive op on Saint Vincent as far as I know (Dive St Vincent.) There has been another at times (Dive Fantasea) but it comes and goes and as far as I know it's gone right now.

It's an easy day trip from Bequia, so I assumed it probably wouldn't take too much longer from St. Vincent.