Ins & Outs of St. Vincent and the Grenadines - 2023

32 DIVING Diving by Cathy Sachs St. Vincent and the Grenadines has always touted its fabulous sailing, snorkeling and day-chartering, but it is not widely known for its spectacular diving. Throughout the island chain you can snorkel through a “bat cave,” dive over geo-thermal vents, or take a night dive on a wreck with hundreds of lobsters. Visitors often feel so at home that they return year after year, and divers return to see rare seahorses, pipefish and frogfish. Photo: Dive Bequia Mainland St. Vincent offers stunning diving with dive operators at Blue Lagoon, opposite Young Island at Villa, Paradise Beach and Richmond Vale. The impressive landscape of St. Vincent continues underwater with dramatic wall dives full of black coral and azure sponges steeply shelving away to volcanic sand. St. Vincent has been a well-kept secret among divers interested in photographing our unusual marine life. The abundance and variety