Advice on Diving in Dominican Republic

... of places to stay, and has enough diving to require multiple trips to see it all. The Dominican Republic (DR) shares the lush, mountainous island of Hispaniola with Haiti, and has a tropical climate with hot, humid summers, and cooler, breezy winters. Water temperatures are mostly warm with highs of 82F/28C in the summer and 75F/24C in the winter. Conditions for diving are good year-round but hurricanes can occur from July-November and the winter season has more wind. Sharks, turtles, eagle rays, eels, butterflyfish, and plenty more live on the healthy reefs, and a history of pirates an...