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shisochou - 26 Oct 2004 21:31 GMT

I just returned from a diving trip to Saba in the Netherlands
Antilles.

I booked the trip with Scuba Voyages, and it went perfectly; I stayed
5 nights at Juliana's and did 3 days of diving with Sea Saba. I was
also there for their annual Sea & Learn event (www.seaandlearn.org).

In a nutshell, it was a beautiful island, the people were very
friendly, and the diving was great. I'm definitely going back.

For more details of my trip:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/shisochou/49605.html

Picture gallery (200+ pictures!):
http://pics.livejournal.com/shisochou/gallery/0000herh

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Don Wiss - 27 Oct 2004 03:11 GMT

>Picture gallery (200+ pictures!):
>http://pics.livejournal.com/shisochou/gallery/0000herh

You could submit these to: http://picturesofplaces.com/

Don <donwiss at panix.com>.

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chilly - 27 Oct 2004 08:57 GMT

> I just returned from a diving trip to Saba in the Netherlands
> Antilles.
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> Picture gallery (200+ pictures!):
> http://pics.livejournal.com/shisochou/gallery/0000herh

Awesome. Thanks so much for sharing. Saba has been on my list since I was
in St. Martin some time ago. I think I shall have to move it up.

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Rudy Benner - 27 Oct 2004 10:29 GMT

>> I just returned from a diving trip to Saba in the Netherlands
>> Antilles.
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> was
> in St. Martin some time ago. I think I shall have to move it up.

Here is a way of doing SABA and also Statia and St Kitts.

http://www.caribexplorer.com/cexhtml/sabaindex.html

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Reef Fish - 27 Oct 2004 15:34 GMT

> Here is a way of doing SABA and also Statia and St Kitts.
>
> http://www.caribexplorer.com/cexhtml/sabaindex.html

I disagree.

I am a big fan of liveaboards. In fact, whenever a dive location
is served by both liveaboards and land-based operations, I always
prefer the liveaboard -- SABA is the ONLY exception, in the world!

When I was on the CE, we missed doing even the Eye of the Needle
because the captain couldn't manoeuver the boat to dive there,
whereas it's only 10 minutes from land (almost all dive sites are
10 minutes from land there :-)).

St. Kitts is on the CE itinerary, but only as an excuse to get
some variety from Saba. Diving in St. Kitts sucks.

If I ever go back to Saba again, I would use one of the landbased
operations.

-- Bob.

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Rudy Benner - 27 Oct 2004 17:59 GMT

>> Here is a way of doing SABA and also Statia and St Kitts.
>>
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>
> -- Bob.

I am somewhat confused. You disagree with what? Please read your posting and
clarify.
We did Eye of the Needle from the Caribbean Explorer just fine back in
11/2000

I liked the diving in St Kitts just fine. Statia was ho-hum.

They bought the old Sea Dancer from Peter Hughes and swapped boats, the old
CE is now doing West Caicos while the Sea Dancer is now alternating between
St Martin and St Kitts.

I have done both itineraries. West Caicos is better IMHO.

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Dan Bracuk - 28 Oct 2004 01:46 GMT

Large_Nassau_Grouper@Yahoo.com (Reef Fish) pounded away at his
keyboard resulting in:

:When I was on the CE, we missed doing even the Eye of the Needle
:because the captain couldn't manoeuver the boat to dive there,
:whereas it's only 10 minutes from land (almost all dive sites are
:10 minutes from land there :-)).

I did it from the same boat (different captain maybe). You missed a
deep short dive followed by a long blue water ascent.

Dan Bracuk
Is it my imagination, or do Buffalo Wings taste like chicken?
The Best of rec.scuba http://www.pathcom.com/~bracuk/RecScuba/

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Chrissy Cruiser - 27 Oct 2004 21:31 GMT

> Awesome. Thanks so much for sharing. Saba has been on my list since I was
> in St. Martin some time ago. I think I shall have to move it up.

Ditto to Saba and to the poster.

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