Dive Review of Sea Aruba Fly 'n Dive/Marriott's Aruba Surf Club in
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Sea Aruba Fly 'n Dive/Marriott's Aruba Surf Club : "Cool diving in Aruba", Jun, 2018, by Ms Lynda Durfee, VA, US ( Top Contributor 49 reports with 24 Helpful votes). Report 10291 has 1 Helpful vote.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations	N/A	Food	N/A
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$
Beginners
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Comments	This is my eleventh consecutive year diving with this operator. See my Dec 2017 and earlier reports for more details. I dive this time of year (May) every year but one, and the water temp is usually in the low 80s, but these two weeks it was about 76-77, so a 5mm full wetsuit kept me comfortable. Visibility was only about 50 ft first few days as it had been more windy than usual for the week before, stirring up sand. The sites on the northwest coast (wrecks Antilla and Pedernales) had the best diving, with lots of schools of snappers, surgeons, and other larger fish off the Antilla and many juvenile fish and eels near the Pedernales. One day doing the surface interval off the Antilla, I was surrounded by THOUSANDs of brown chromis and other smaller fish; I just stayed there until the DM finally banged on her tank because I was the last one in the water. Aruba doesn't have the reputation of nearby Bonaire, but the topside resorts, restaurants, beaches and activities will keep your non-diving traveling companions happy. The price is right, too; I did 18 dives for about $35/per tank with my own gear.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	All over Caribbean, all Hawaiian islands, Fiji, Palau, Maldives, Red Sea
Closest Airport	Aruba	Getting There	non-stop and connecting flights from US hubs
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy	Seas	choppy
Water Temp	76-77°F / 24-25°C	Wetsuit Thickness	5
Water Visibility	50-80 Ft/ 15-24 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Dive your own profile most of the time, but when drifting and surfacing in chop/swells, it may be necessary to come up as a group with the guide.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish	N/A
Large Pelagics	N/A
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	Dedicated bucket onboard for cameras. Crew will hand you your camera once you are in the water and on the return

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Dive Review of Sea Aruba Fly 'n Dive/Marriott's Aruba Surf Club in Aruba

Sea Aruba Fly 'n Dive/Marriott's Aruba Surf Club : "Cool diving in Aruba", Jun, 2018,

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Dive Review of Sea Aruba Fly 'n Dive/Marriott's Aruba Surf Club in
Aruba