Dive Review of Ocean Explorers in
St. Maarten/Dutch Side

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Ocean Explorers, Apr, 2012, by Adam Dorfman, CO, US ( 1 report). Report 6536.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations	N/A	Food	N/A
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$
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Comments	This dive operation is excellent! The boats are moored on a beach in front of the dive shop. You will need to walk some of your gear in the water (waist deep) to get on the boat. The staff will set up, rinse, dry and store your gear at the shop if you are diving multiple days. Luciana was very helpful assisting us with reservations not only for them, but for a trip over to Saba as well. The staff is very helpful, professional and friendly. We dove two days of reefs and a shark dive that was great! Again, this was all done with professionalism. If I were to return to St. Maarten again, I would look no further then Ocean Frontiers. The diving in St Maarten is not rated the best, but in my opinion it’s darn good and with the curious grey reef sharks that we swam with both on the shark dive and the reef dives made it special. The corals are in pretty good shape for the most part. Although the waters were not filled with massive schools of fish, there was plenty of interesting animal action to be had. We dove Saba as well and the corals were some of the best I’ve seen in the Caribbean in years. That along with friendly tarpon and again some more reef sharks made it a very nice side trip. This is a top notch(safe)dive operation.
Websites	Ocean Explorers
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Florida, Belize, Caymans, Cozumel, GBR, Coral Sea, New Jersey, Utah, Colorado
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	choppy
Water Temp	79-81°F / 26-27°C	Wetsuit Thickness	2
Water Visibility	70-100 Ft/ 21-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Come up with 500PSI, othwise dive your computer. No babysitting but safe.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	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
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	Not much in the way for camera storage besides a rinse bucket, but the rides to the dive sites are short and it was not an issue. I was filming HD video with a rather large housing and it was not a problem.

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Dive Review of Ocean Explorers in St. Maarten/Dutch Side

Ocean Explorers, Apr, 2012,

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

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What I Saw

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Dive Review of Ocean Explorers in
St. Maarten/Dutch Side