| Dive area / region : Netherlands Antilles - See the map |
 
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| Best diving season : January • February • March • April • May • June • July • August • September • October • November • December | |||||||||||||||||||
| Recommended number of days to stay : More than 1 week... | |||||||||||||||||||
| Number of dive sites : More than 20 Dive Sites | |||||||||||||||||||
| Water temperature and wetsuit advice : 26C-… : Shorty or Thin Wetsuit | |||||||||||||||||||
| Average visibility : 30 meters plus | |||||||||||||||||||
| Average dives depth : 25 Meters | |||||||||||||||||||
| Type of currents : Coastal currents | |||||||||||||||||||
| Months when these currents are present : Currents usualy only during full or new moon. | |||||||||||||||||||
| General surface conditions : Very variable conditions | |||||||||||||||||||
| Wreck types : Old wooden ship • Recent world ships • Artificial wrecks |
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| Type of marine life : Anemone • Barracuda • Corals • Crayfish • Cuttlefish • Grouper • Jacks • Lobster • Moray Eels • Nudibranch • Octopus • Plants • Rays • Reef Fish • Sea snakes • Seahorses • Shark - Grey nurse • Shark - Reef shark • Shrimps • Softcoral • Sponge • Squid • Star fish • Tuna • Turtles • Worms | |||||||||||||||||||
| Presence of caves / caverns : No | |||||||||||||||||||
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St. Eustatius - STATIA - Netherlands Antilles
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Description
The underwater world of St Eustatius is well known for its beauty. Photographers can choose between micro- or fishe eye-lenses according to the dive sites in a protected marine park. The total marine and terrestrial protected area covers about 33 km2 almost twice the size of the island ! The marine fauna is fantastic and you can see a few turtles during the same dive, as well as the famous spotted drum, seahorse, flying gurnard or frog fish. Giant barrel sponges, all sort of gorgonians, soft corals, stony corals, forests of sea fans, sea whips, etc. Reef dives, shallow dives, deep dives, wreck dives : for beginners and experienced divers !
The volcano The Quill dominates the Marine Park and a few thousand years ago created splendid lava flows which today are covered with several kinds of coral : stony coral, soft coral, sponges and gorgonias everywehere ! St Eustatius was one of the most important harbours in the world during the 17-18th centuries thanks to its commercial activities : over 2000 ships per year came to the island and, nowadays, you can still see the shape of a wreck covered with coral during your dives. You can also observe fantastic anchors lying on the sand and covered with colorful corals !
Ingrid from Scubaqua.
User reviews
Average user rating from: 3 user(s)
Et oui c'est moi, une plongeuse de St. Eutsache
| Overall rating: | 5.0 | |
| Do you agree in general with the rating proposed by this web site? : | 5.0 | |
| Marine life: | 5.0 | |
| Visibility: | 5.0 | |
| Overall dive experience: | 5.0 | |
| Accessibility: | 5.0 | |
| Surface conditions: | 5.0 | |
| Worth travel to: | 5.0 | |
| Water purity: | 5.0 |
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful
Quoi dire haaaaaaaa oui .... oui bonjour à Fredy hihihihihi
Ingrid et Walther ainsi que leur fils, sont: accueillant, drôle et drôle....
Tout leur team est toujours là pour nous soutenir. Chaqu'un prend plaisirs à plonger avec nous.
La base est très bien tenue, la sécurité est vraiment de haut de gamme. Les plongées sont à chaque fois renversantes. Et je n'exagère pas, car j'y suis allée deux fois.
Je ne peux que conseiller à tous plongeurs (ou plongeuses) qui aiment la nature et la plongée dans un endroit naturelle, d’économiser quelques sous afin de passer 2 à 3 semaines sur cette île. Cela en vaut VRAIMENT le détour.
Safe and beautifull!
| Overall rating: | 4.7 | |
| Do you agree in general with the rating proposed by this web site? : | 5.0 | |
| Marine life: | 5.0 | |
| Visibility: | 4.0 | |
| Overall dive experience: | 5.0 | |
| Accessibility: | 4.0 | |
| Surface conditions: | 5.0 | |
| Worth travel to: | 5.0 | |
| Water purity: | 4.0 |
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Statia is a peacefull little island and beautifull for it's marinelife and for some hiking if you want to do something else.
Enjoy Statia!
Statia - A relaxed divers paradise
| Overall rating: | 5.0 | |
| Do you agree in general with the rating proposed by this web site? : | 4.0 | |
| Marine life: | 5.0 | |
| Visibility: | 5.0 | |
| Overall dive experience: | 5.0 | |
| Accessibility: | 5.0 | |
| Surface conditions: | 5.0 | |
| Worth travel to: | 5.0 | |
| Water purity: | 5.0 |
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Diving in statia is a real pleasure. Very good visability. Lots of variety, wall diving, wreckdiving, so many different reefs!
If you've never been there, i bet once you've seen it, you'll come back!
Sometimes currents can be pretty strong, but that's no problem, you'll make a drift dive with the boat close by to pick you up!
One of the best things about diving in statia is the bigg variuety in reefs, species of marine life and the unexpected visitors of the reefs! I saw lots of reef sharks, nurse sharks, sometimes an eagle ray or even 2 or 3 together. We have seen manta rays, a big ass Giant Hammerhaed and yes, a Whaleshark!
Statia has an unspoiled underwaterlife. Every dive is exciting, what will we see? The guides know the reefs very well and point to all things which are interesting.
wish i could go back on holiday!
Patrick Raemaekers, The Netherlands
[I made many many dives with them!!]
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