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Saba Marine Park
T he Saba Marine Park offers 29 permanently moored dive sites her trim cottages, are ringed by her sapphire blue seas. For centu-
that are all reached with 5 to 20 minute boat rides from THE ries, only local fisherman and sailors knew Saba’s waters. It wasn’t
Fort Bay base of operations. Like all gems, Saba’s demeanor belies until 1981 that American businessmen Del Bunker and Wilson
her birth: violent geophysical upheavals were her attendants. McQueen brought scuba cylinders to Saba. From the first dive it
Eons later, her emerald forests, punctuated by the ruby roofs of was obvious that Saba offered something truly special.
