Eco Tour
Dive West Side Scuba
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Added 16 October 2026. Brand statements are attributed; these details do not establish a new score.
- Group Size
- never more than 12 people on the boat
Source · 2026-10-13T13:06:16.323837+00:00ensuring that there are never more than 12 people on the boat, typically even fewer.
Dive West Side Scuba is a diving and snorkelling in West coast, Barbados.
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Dive shop marketing itself as an eco dive shop, operating exclusively from mooring buoys rather than anchoring, and monitoring stony coral tissue loss disease with data reported to AGRRA.
NEVER ANCHORS on reef, disinfects gear between sites to avoid spreading coral disease, submits disease-monitoring data to a regional science programme, member of CORALL, runs Dive Against Debris and removes invasive lionfish. Teaches buoyancy control explicitly as reef protection.
Listing details
- Full Address
- West coast, Barbados
- Name
- Dive West Side Scuba
- Sources (internal, verification URLs)
- https://divewestsidescuba.com/about-us/eco-dive-shop/
- Verified
- hand-verified research, Jul 2026
- Excerpt
- Dive shop marketing itself as an eco dive shop, operating exclusively from mooring buoys rather than anchoring, and monitoring stony coral tissue loss disease with data reported to AGRRA.
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- Dive shop marketing itself as an eco dive shop, operating exclusively from mooring buoys rather than anchoring, and monitoring stony coral tissue loss disease with data reported to AGRRA.
NEVER ANCHORS on reef, disinfects gear between sites to avoid spreading coral disease, submits disease-monitoring data to a regional science programme, member of CORALL, runs Dive Against Debris and removes invasive lionfish. Teaches buoyancy control explicitly as reef protection. - Why it is eco / at the source
- NEVER ANCHORS on reef, disinfects gear between sites to avoid spreading coral disease, submits disease-monitoring data to a regional science programme, member of CORALL, runs Dive Against Debris and removes invasive lionfish. Teaches buoyancy control explicitly as reef protection.
- Country
- Barbados
- Area / Neighbourhood
- West coast
- City
- West coast
- Type
- Diving and Snorkelling
- Season (open months)
- Year round
- Ethics
- No feeding or baiting described anywhere in their material; their conservation page frames turtles as animals to protect from debris rather than a product. No explicit published wildlife-interaction policy though - confirm on booking.
- Free to visit
- No
- Brand image
- Last checked
- 2026-07-22
- Group Size
- never more than 12 people on the boat
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Google rating · 4.8/5
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