Now, several sleepy decades later, handfuls of divers join the 130 residents for Salt Cay diving, which ranges from the eels, eagle rays, and reef fish among the corals and sea fans along North Wall to the possibility of snorkeling with 45-foot humpback whales. Check out our picks and nixs of the diving, the dive operation and places to stay.
Reasons run the gamut from panic to inexperience to equipment failure.
Find out which mistakes were fatal ones and when to worry that helping a distressed diver might be placing yourself in danger. Tragedy on Saba Undercurrent extends its condolences to the friends and family of Curtis Huber, PADI Master instructor and co-owner of Saba Reef Divers, who was killed when a 16' x 3' boulder, shaken loose in a landslide, landed atop his pickup truck. Find out how readers rate a host of destinations from Fiji to Costa Rica to Papua New Guinea. And, if you're considering trips to destinations like St. Vincent, Belize, or Maui, you'll want to hear which operations rate bouquets and which earn brickbats. Phase II will bring years of back issues of Undercurrent , In Depth , and The Travelin' Diver's Chapbooks online, allowing site members to search by subject and instantly access all the info available on a destination - at the click of a button.