Caicos Adventures & Fifi Kunz (owner): One of the Best Scuba Diving Shops in the Caribbean, in the Bahamas, in Turks and Caicos!

Russ and Carol Welsch (rcwelsch@comcast.net) Arlington , VA (Jul 2003)
Experience: 100 dives. Vis 60 to 150 feet. Water 82-84F with very little currents. This was our third trip to Providenciales in three years. Dove over 10 other islands in the Caribbean with many operators - Fifi and his crews are the absolute best! Best boat in the Caribbean! Even on the occasional day with 18 divers there is plenty of space on the big cat. Drop your gear with them on day one and don't touch it again until you pack up to leave. Gear is rinsed and set up for you each day. Dive masters are in the water on each dive for a guided tour, but if you have a computer and Fifi sees you are competent, you are allowed to buddy dive on your own. Be back on the boat with 500psi. Dive sites are pristine. Many days you don't see any other boats. Very healthy reef, lots of the typical fish, but you always see something big on every dive. The sharks, turtles, jew fish, groupers, stingrays and eagle rays are still around these sites. We were there the day Tom jumped on a shark. I think we made the tank last almost an hour on that dive! Boat rides are about 45 minutes to the sites and you never know what you might see. On the last trip we ended up in the middle of a pod of about 40 dolphins! Fifi convinced us to try night diving again. We had two bad experiences in other locations (Colorado and Cozumel) with night dives, but Fifi wouldn't give up on us. After hours of saying how great it was, he talked us into it. He picked us up on the beach and five minutes later we are at the dive site in Grace Bay. We dove on a full moon and it was spectacular! Saw a small octopus, spiny starfish, and a huge turtle scratching his shell on the reef and didn't seem to mind our lights or the fact that we were about five feet from him. Hotels are clean, water safe to drink, the food is no more expensive than home (Washington DC), and the beach is the most beautiful we have seen in the Caribbean. Nightlife is quiet and the beaches are not crowded. We'll be going back to see Fifi every chance we get!

Larry Wagner (lpwagner@swbell.net) McKinney,TX (August 2002)
Experience: 26-50 dives. Vis: 60 to 80 Feet. Water: 84 F, choppy, no currents. Dive your own profile: yes. Dive restrictions enforced: stay with DM if you take the guided dive, or dive your own profile with your buddy. Safety stop recommended. Fifi's new power cat makes an excellent dive boat and he runs a good operation. Boat was equipped with oxygen, first aid, safety stop hang bar and spare air reg. The head on our trip became temperamental early on and became useless. Fifi gave a 1 hour 40 minute surface interval with pretty good sandwiches offered. We dove G Spot and Double D. Both were awesome dives! Very dense coral in great shape, lots and lots of the usual reef fish, plus barracuda, eagle rays, and sharks. The sharks at G Spot seem to wait for divers to play a game of chicken –- coming straight at you and then veering off when maybe 15 feet away. One playful shark liked to do this under the boat at 15'-- making the safety stop a real thrill. If sharks are not your thing, maybe this isn't the place for you, but the diving is superb, so maybe you could stay in the middle of a pack of divers when surfacing. The drop off at G Spot is straight down to the abyss, and just took my breath away when I first peered over the edge.

Glen Spence (glenspence@yahoo.com) Cooper City, FL (Sept 2002)
Vis: 60-80 ft. Water: 84-85 F. Dives logged: 700+. Dive restrictions enforced: 500 psi on boat. Comfort Suites has pool, continental breakfast, nice room and is quite adequate for the money. Caicos Adventures is a good dive operator. Excellent dive boat. Fresh sub sandwiches after first dive. Depths and times of dives are limited accordingly. We saw 5 dolphins, spotted eagle rays, many reef sharks, nurse sharks, turtles, stingrays, schools of jacks, etc

Paul Brown (pbrown@fedex.com) Cordova, TN. (January 2003)
Experience: 51-100 dives. Vis: 80 to 130 Feet. Water: 83 to 85 F, choppy. "Fifi" runs an excellent operation and the catamaran he uses to get you to the great dive sites at West Cacios and French Cay cuts travel time down and is comfortable. The crew, Asa and Kenard, do all the work. Never touched my gear for five days. All 3 guys made this a great trip. Boat will carry 25 divers and the max we had was 7. All the sites were good and no other boats around. One wish is that the sandwiches he provided would change each day. But they were big. Bring your own fresh fruit.

Barry Zigas (barryzigas@earthlink.net) Washington, DC (Feb 2003) Experience: 51-100 dives. Vis: 50 to 75 Feet. Water: 65 to 70 F, calm, choppy. Well-run dive operation, with spirited crew that is knowledgeable, professional and courteous. Captain "Fifi" Kuntz ran a tight ship but made it easy. Divemasters like K. Cruikshank also qualified and friendly. Went on successive days, first to French Key and second day to West Caicos. Very calm for the crossing to French Key. The large twin-hulled boat made it quickly and comfortably. Fresh water, O2, marine head. Divers set up gear for first dive, second by divemasters. Divers for multiple days leave gear on board and crew rinses and puts out for second and subsequent days. First day had about 12 divers, in three groups. Wide mix of experience and training. Second day more cozy and relaxed with only 6 of us. Generally dives to sandy bottoms then over the wall to 60-85 feet. No dive under 45 minutes, with ample shallow degassing time and mandatory 3 minute safety stops on bar with hanging regulator. Lunch of grocery store sandwiches (ask for tuna in advance if ham and cheese ain't your thing!) served between dives during long surface interval of at least an hour. Second day more choppy but quick trip to West Caicos. Both days great dives with lots of sharks and eagle rays, black grouper, tons of tropicals, lobsters, etc. Hard coral, gorgonians and sponges galore.

Roger & Donna Soape, Houston, TX (July 2002)
Experience: 251-500 dives. Vis: 70 to 100 Feet. Water: 81 to 82 F, choppy. Great dive operation though boat rides to West Caicos and French Cay are 30 to 45 minutes. Large dive boat makes the ride comfortable —
marine head, rinse showers, fresh water and lemonade, oxygen. Sometimes
more divers than we prefer (15+) but Caicos Adventures handled
them well; we did not notice the crowd once we were in the water.
Great corals and some walls rival Little Cayman. Sharks and eagle
rays on most dives. Lots of fish life, large and small. Good vis although
reduced from by winds some days. Only two dives a day except one day
each week when Caicos Adventures dives three dives. Lunches served on
board were adequate. We rented a house on Provo’s beautiful beach.
Good restaurants — casual Shark Bite and BBQ night at the Tiki Hut. Fancy French/Caribbean cuisine at other restaurants. Everything’s expensive.

Susan Warhus (swarhus@aol.com) Scottsdale, AZ (March 2002)
Experience: 101-250 dives. Vis: 70 to 90 Feet. Water: 75 to 77 F, calm.
“Fifi” is a hands-on, meticulous perfectionist that makes sure the dive
operations runs well. The boat is new and the most comfortable and beautiful
of any dive boat we have been on. Submarine sandwiches for lunch are
great. Dive staff is caring and knowledgeable.Beautiful Caribbean diving
with lush coral reefs and marine life.Comfort Suites: (barely) adequate low
budget accommodations. Pitiful continental breakfast, marginal A/C,
poor plumbing had to have toilet plunged, yellow water coming from
shower head! Local taxi drivers hang out at the bar between their fares.

James W. Roby (eroby@sonet.net) Haleyville, AL. (June 2002)
Vis: 75-100 ft. Water: 80-82 F. Dive restrictions enforced: computer
profile. Third trip with Caicos Adventures. Fifi and Caicos Adventures
are “tops.” Serious, but fun and customer oriented. Reef sharks,
hammerheads, eagle rays are legitimately expected at West Caicos. Sands
at Grace Bay is a lovely, well managed property. Nice IGA.

December 2001, Ron Chau, Bayside,NY (December 2001)
Experience: 26-50 dives. Vis: 50 to 80 Feet. Water: 80 to 82 F, calm.Caicos Adventures was top notch.Only restriction was be back on the boat with 500 psi. New dive boat was fantastic. Trips to West Caicos 30 minutes, French Cay 45 minutes.
Healthy reefs, but less fish life than expected. Nice wall dives start around
60 feet.