Harlequin have some great news for people who love a lot of sea with their sun: Buccament Bay Resort is honoured to be designated a PADI 5 Star Resort - the first on the St Vincent mainland.

PADI, or Professional Association of Diving Instructors, is the world's leading scuba diving instruction organisation with over 6,000 certified dive shops and resorts worldwide.

Indigo Dive & Watersports at Buccament Bay Resort provides guests with a range of activities, including diving for all abilities, snorkelling and thrill rides, but the award was earned due to the excellent standards of their PADI tuition courses: the world standard for dive training.

Here are the criteria for the award, as stated on the official PADI website:

"PADI Five Star Dive Center Membership is awarded to progressive PADI Dive Shops that excel in providing scuba divers with a full range of scuba certification programs, scuba gear selection, and scuba experience opportunities. To qualify as PADI Five Star Dive Center, a dive shop must meet elevated service and business standards and both promote and offer only PADI scuba diving lessons as their recreational scuba diver training. These dive shops also actively promote underwater environmental awareness and embrace the PADI System of diver education, with a commitment to providing quality training, products, services and experiences."

St Vincent & The Grenadines is also recognised as one of the best diving locations in the Caribbean, offering an enchanting and engrossing selection of reefs and sea life to explore and enjoy. Whether you're in a serious long-term relationship with the sea, just starting out or only interested in a bit of fun, SVG delivers.