Dive Review of Aquamarine Dive Shop/Blue Waters Inn in
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Aquamarine Dive Shop/Blue Waters Inn, Jun, 2012, by eric multhaup, CA, US ( 2 reports). Report 6734.
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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	Aquamarine Dive Shop and the Blue Waters Inn are a great vacation destination, particularly for a group that includes different degrees of interest in diving vs. other activities. Blue Waters Inn has a private cove north of Speyside, which is a small friendly town at the northeast end of Tobago. Everything is local; there is no corporate presence once you drive out of the airport region around Scarborough in the south. The Blue Waters Inn is right on the water, so you sleep to the sound of lapping waves. Aquamarine is immediately adjacent, as is the dock, and is very well managed by owner Alice Darwent. The diving is extremely colorful and easy, with all dive sites about 8 - 10 minutes away around Little Tobago, offshore of Speyside. The dive guides are very competent and attentive, with a good sense of humor. In 10 dives, we repeated only one site, Coral Gardens, which has the world's largest (known) brain coral. The dive sites are notable for the diversity of flora, for example, Japanese Garden has very different coloration and whip coral that look like a bonsai garden. That site also has Kamikaze Cut, where the currents zip through a narrow aperture. Otherwise, the diving is entirely suitable for beginning recreational divers, and enjoyable for more experienced divers. For adventure diving, you would have to make special arrangements to go past the northern tip of the island to dive The Sisters. Landlife is simple and enterntaining, with a lively bar scene at the Blue Waters, and local restaurants a 15 minute walk into Speyside, especially Jemma's Seafood Kitchen, with outstanding flavors infused into the local rice/chicken/shrimp dishes. The Blue Waters' clientele is about half divers and half birders, because Little Tobago is a world mecca for certain tropical birds, worth a side trip. Another good excursion is north to the end-of-the-world village of Charlotteville, with a nice beach and a few small restaurants. Blue Waters is owned and well-run by a Trinidad family, and it really the only viable dive/lodging facility in the area.
Websites	Aquamarine Dive Shop Blue Waters Inn
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	51-100 dives
Where else diving	Bali, Fiji, Caribbean, California Coast
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm
Water Temp	80-84°F / 27-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	80-120 Ft/ 24-37 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	?
Enforced diving restrictions	80 feet max on the first dive; 65 max on the second
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	1 or 2
Dolphins	1 or 2	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	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	[None]

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Dive Review of Aquamarine Dive Shop/Blue Waters Inn in Trinidad and Tobago/Tobago

Aquamarine Dive Shop/Blue Waters Inn, Jun, 2012,

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Dive Review of Aquamarine Dive Shop/Blue Waters Inn in
Trinidad and Tobago/Tobago