Dave we dove down the coast a bit in Las Terranas with Sellina divers was a small operation very personal. The diving was as good as it gets anywere if you look at it in the right way IE there is no conservation or protected areas even what there is isn't so amount of fish and size wasn't what you might see in GC but it was made up for by the large areas that obviuosly hadn't had the cattle boats dropping people for yrs. We felt seeing live reef giant sea fans stone crab the size of a foot ball and yep coral that was alive made up for it. Every dive we saw somthing diffrent we hadn't seen before.
6mnths before we dove GC only to see dead reef have idiots climbing over you in swim throughs to just what seemed to be barren areas wasn't fun was expensive ,and as we had dove there 14 yrs before could see a drastic loss of quality. Some will think i goofy saying this but it's the way we see it we dive a lot and are saddened to see the effects of over diving even with conservation.