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Golden Rock Dive Center/Old Gin House, Jan, 2003, by Deb Swackhamer & David DeVault, MN, USA ( Reviewer 3 reports). Report 350.
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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	We had a wonderful experience - met our expectations (from the recent SkinDiver magazine article) and then some. Glenn and Michele Faires of Golden Rock were warm, friendly, professional, and made sure we had great dives and great accomodations at the Old Gin House. They even arranged a quick trip over to Saba for us. The reef was pristine, and very rich in abundance and diversity - plus they have wall diving, wreck diving, reefs. Annouck and Benji are the dive instructors, and they were terrific - made you feel like family. A very personal trip, sometimes just us diving with one of the DM, and we always saw something special. We didn't find any blue beads, but one of the other divers on one dive found two beauties. Very laid back, but professional operation. The Old Gin House was elegant in a colonial fashion, terrific food and service, we felt very pampered. Exceptionally friendly local folks. Not much to do other than dive, but if you want exceptional caribbean diving at a small, friendly, out-of-the-way place - this is fabulous.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	Caribbean; Hawaii; Micronesia; Great Barrier Reef
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm
Water Temp	79-81°F / 26-27°C	Wetsuit Thickness	2
Water Visibility	60-100 Ft/ 18-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	?
Enforced diving restrictions	depth, pressure
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	1 or 2
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	[None]

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Dive Review of Golden Rock Dive Center/Old Gin House in St. Eustatius

Golden Rock Dive Center/Old Gin House, Jan, 2003,

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Dive Review of Golden Rock Dive Center/Old Gin House in
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