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Dive Dominica/Castle Comfort Inn, Jul, 2003, by Ginny Z. Berson, CA, USA . Report 563.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$	N/A
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	A word of warning--if you fly to Dominica on American Eagle from San Juan, be prepared to do without your luggage for the first day. American Eagle typically leaves lots of luggage in San Juan because of weight problems. In our group of 9, 5 people did not get their luggage until late the next day. So carry on your mask, reg, bathing suit, shorts, toothbrush, etc. Whatever you can't do without for the first 24-36 hours. In addition, the flight out of Dominica typically leaves late, with many passengers missing their connections. You might want to build in an extra day to get home. I have nothing but high praise for the dive operation (maximum 8 divers per boat) and the diving in Dominica. Huge hawksbill turtles, frogfish, flying gurnards, seahorses, squid, and a veritable nursery of trunks, trumpets, files, drums, angels, damsels, etc. There are 9 kinds of eels, and we saw them all, including some pretty rare snake eels. I worried that I might be bored with Carribean diving, but I wasn't at all. [The whales and dolphins were not encountered while diving, but on a separate whale-watching trip run by Dive Dominica. It was pretty spectacular].
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	All over the Carribean (Caymans, Belize, Bequia, Saba, Grand Turk, Provo, Roatan, etc.)and in Fiji
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm, noCurrents
Water Temp	80-82°F / 27-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	0
Water Visibility	50-100 Ft/ 15-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	?
Enforced diving restrictions	They said 100 feet/60 minutes max, but there was never a dive where going deeper was an issue and there were several where we were in for over an hour.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	Schools	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	>2
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
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	[None]

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Dive Review of Dive Dominica/Castle Comfort Inn in Dominica

Dive Dominica/Castle Comfort Inn, Jul, 2003,

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Dive Review of Dive Dominica/Castle Comfort Inn in
Dominica