Scuba St. Lucia

No feeding or baiting found. Fisheries rules prohibit touching or standing on reef and licensed operators enforce this. NOTE it runs a PADI lionfish removal specialty involving SPEARING invasive lionfish – standard invasive-species control backed by regional fisheries policy, not baiting, but plant-based travellers who object to any killing should know before booking. Resort-affiliated rather than independently locally owned.

PADI Five Star dive operation on the beach at Anse Chastanet, diving the SMMA sites including the house reef, Coral Gardens, Piton Wall and the Lesleen M wreck, with a coral nursery programme. Holds the PADI GREEN STAR award. Operates entirely inside the community-managed SMMA. Runs a Reef Life and Renewal coral programme where divers help maintain nursery structures, monitor coral health and out-plant fragments. All guests must do a checkout dive on the house reef, stated as protecting the reserve from poor buoyancy control.