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Description:
St. Lucia, "the Helen of the West Indies," lies roughly between 60° and 61° West longitude and 13° and 14° North latitude. It is approximately 1,300 miles southeast of Florida, in the Windward Islands. The 238-square-mile island is 21 miles from its nearest neighbor, the French island of Martinique, 24 miles north of St. Vincent and 100 miles northwest of Barbados. | |
| Details: |
 Nearest commercial airport: George F L Charles |
| Average watertemp: Min 25 - Max 30 oCelcius. |
| Average visibility: 20 Horizontal metres |
| Bottom composition: Sand, Corals |
| Dive conditions: Ocean/Sea, Salt water |
| Seasonality: Year round |
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Marinelife in the area:
| Species | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | | | Coastal fish & Reef Life |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Trunk Fisk, Porcupine Fish, Drum Fish, Chub Fish, French Grunt Fish, Damsel Fish, Parrotfish, Trumpet Fish
| | | Coral Spawning | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | Stag Horn, Pillar Coral and Brain Coral, Sea Plumes, Boulder Star Coral and a variety of Chromis, Sea Whip Gorgonians and Wire Coral.
| | | Hawksbill turtles | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | Leatherback turtles |  | | | | |  | | | | | | | | |
| | | Moray eels | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | Nurse sharks | |  | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | Pelagic fish | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | White Spotted File Fish
| | | Stingrays | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Probability of encounter:  0%,  0 > 60%,  60 > 90%,  90 > 100%
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