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02/24/2008 Timmmy (Avg: 4.31 Review) - This was the third dive of the day. It was an easy kick out to first section far right, no current, lots of Tarpon, Cuda, Squid, and the biggest Midnight Parrot fish we have ever seen. Interesting stuff thrown off of salt freighters at center section. Lots of good photogenic juvies in the shallows on the back in.

12/17/2007 Clare from NJ (Avg: 3.96 Review) - This is a greatly overlooked dive site. Excellent life under the pier, with schooling fish, frogfish, squid and lots of coral encrusted on the pylons. Done in the late afternoon, the sun casts amazing silhouettes!!!

05/31/2006 Hans (Avg: 3.53 Review) - Salt Pier is no longer open for shorediving to the individual. You are obliged to obtain permission and a dive guide from a dive-facility. Then you have to pay $25, as well. How strictly the Stinapa rangers apply their control is unknown, you may be thrown off by the salt company, as well.

07/18/2004 Lee (Avg: 3.23 Review) - Dusk to night dive. This dive would have been more interesting in mid afternoon to see the odd angles of the pier in the daylight. Still saw lots of eels, squid, lizardfish. Ending the dive, I looked up and the stars in the night sky were dazzling.

01/03/2004 Deborah Norton (Avg: 4.26 Review) - Easy entry about 50 feet north of the pier. I don't normally like junkyard dives, but the debris and pilings here are heavily encrusted with coral, oysters, etc and so it is a good dive. Lots of small marine life and juvenile fish, as well as some large barracuda and tarpon. Saw a school of caribbean reef squid and an octopus curled up in a crevice in the middle of the day. Lots of morays, scorpionfish, spotted drum, parrotfish.

07/10/2003 Bob Mallin (Avg: 3.75 Review) - We did this dive at about 4 pm and the sun casts very cool shadows across the pilings of the pier. There is not as much encrusted coral etc as there is on Town pier, but there is also less junk on the bottom, and we saw more varieties of fish and other life.

10/04/2002 Huub Dingemans (Avg: 5.00 Review) - Vinkeveen

09/09/2002 Jim Haggart (Avg: 2.56 Review) - Just a lot of junk under a pier.

08/21/2002 Fiona Rattray (Avg: 4.33 Review) - This was a great dive! If the Pink Dive Bus is at the dive site, permission to dive it that day has been given, otherwise you need to get permission to dive this working pier (I was told you can get this through your dive shop). What a great, cathedral-like dive with the light coming through the pier pilings. There were about 20 Wahoo just hanging out to catch the larger-than-usual numbers of baitfish. Neat sponges, orange cup coral on the pilings. Great place to hit 100 dives! Had a cold beverage at the Dive Bus since they saved us the effort of getting the permit.

06/28/2002 Dan Benson (Avg: 4.85 Review) - One of our favorite dive sites. Information saying you need written permission to dive this site is false. The dive shop will give them a call. If a freighter isn't in or due, they will tell you, and off you go! The day after we dove it a snorkeler saw a whale shark right off the dock! There is lots of debris (this used to be a dump) so there are lots of places for critters to hide. While the corals might not be as plentiful as the town pier, the lack of crowds make this site a much better dive in my opinion!

09/16/2001 Jim Goodenough (Avg: 4.38 Review) - An extremely fun site. Enter in the area to the right of the parking lot. Do not back roll as I did off the cement near the conveyer. As I did, the water receded, and I landed in the sand on my back. Lots of fish, corals, and beauty. A much better night dive than the Town Pier (Town Dump). Since I've dived here, I understand you should have permission. I recommended checking with your dive shop regarding permission to dive here.

06/03/2001 Hans (Avg: 3.38 Review) - Ascension day 2001. Nobody around, no ships. The dive-bus was parked at the pier. Nobody mentioned limitations and we were the only visitors. A lot of rubbish under the pier destroyed the reef, but the abundant fish life compensated beautifully. No need to go deeper than 14 meters. We saw all the fish that we had seen during the previous two weeks of diving.

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