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Sea Saba/Juliana's: "Saba", Jul, 2014, by John Davis, TN, US ( Reviewer 6 reports with 4 Helpful votes). Report 8001.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	Have escorted dive trips for over 30 years, and this island was surely worth a repeat trip. People are of dutch decent, and are, overall very friendly and helpful. The island is beautiful in the same way that the Grand Canyon is beautiful. You have a sense of awe as to how they ever got building materials to the top to even begin building a settlement--it took 20 years to build the road system and once you drive it it's no wonder why. The views are spectacular, so it's a joy just riding from the hotel to the dive boat. They also have some of the best restaurants in the entire Caribbean-especially for being such a small island. If there is any crime, it's not immediately evident, and we all felt safe walking the streets at any time day or night. Diving was very good by Caribbean standards and the dive guides were helpful and friendly, as was the dive shop there was no militaristic attitude on the part of the dive masters. No large animals (the largest thing we saw was a sleeping Nurse Shark), but lots of tropical fish and healthy coral. Plenty of subjects to photograph. Regrettably we were unable to dive the pinnacles that Saba is so famous for, but other than that the trip was a big hit with all 12 in my group-even the non-divers enjoyed it. Don't go if you have to have a white sand beach or shore diving, but otherwise it's one of the best kept secrets in the Caribbean and the flights are actually on time. Take off and landing on Saba is exhilarating to to say the least- all passengers applauded the pilots each time. This is a very unique place in the Caribbean and well worth the time and money to get there-good for both beginners and experienced divers. John Davis, PADI MSDT
Websites	Sea Saba
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Cayman, Little Cayman, Bonaire, Galapagos, Truk, Yap, Curacao, Provo, Grand Turk, Salt Cya, Nassau, Abaco, Exuma, Cozumel, Dominica, Saba, Long Island, etc....
Closest Airport	Saba	Getting There	ATL to St. Maarten on Delta, St. Maarten to Saba on Winair
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm
Water Temp	82-84°F / 28-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness	1
Water Visibility	50-80 Ft/ 15-24 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Max depth and time to surface
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	[None]

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Dive Review of Sea Saba/Juliana's in Saba

Sea Saba/Juliana's: "Saba", Jul, 2014,

Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

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What I Saw

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Dive Review of Sea Saba/Juliana's in
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