A number of dive shops serve St Thomas
and provide a safe, comfortable scuba diving experience for beginners
or experienced divers. Advanced certification courses are available
here, as well as complete instruction for beginners.
Operators
St. Thomas Diving Club: We are a PADI 5-star IDC center offering boat dives twice daily along with night diving on your schedule. Snorkelers are welcome to join us on our afternoon dive adventures. If you're interested in becoming certified as a scuba diver you can complete the PADI E-Learning program and our staff of instructors will be able to finish your certification dives here in St. Thomas, USVI.
Blue Island Divers: We are the premier dive center for St. Thomas. We cater for all SCUBA divers and their families, from Cruise Ship SCUBA Divers to St. Thomas SCUBA Diving Stay-Dive Packages, Rendezvous Diving and Mega-Yacht SCUBA Divers. We are the leading dive center for Nitrox on St. Thomas, both Nitrox Training, and provision of Nitrox diving to those already certified.
Red Hook Dive Center: A full service PADI dive shop offering multi-levels of dive instruction, daily morning and afternoon scuba dive excursions, private charters, rental gear, air/Nitrox fills, equipment service/repair, snorkel and dive accessories. All trip prices include equipment. We are located on the east end of St. Thomas in Red Hook, at the American Yacht Harbor and the Wyndham Sugar Bay Resort.
Coki Beach Dive Club: A PADI GOLD PALM RESORT, SDI Center and UNIVERSAL REFERRAL CENTER, offers quality scuba dive courses, guided dive tours for beginners and for certified divers, beach diving, boat diving, and dive classes for kids. Our rates are very reasonable. You can compare them with any other school and see the difference. We are fully committed to the PADI system of Scuba Diving Instruction, which is the industry standard.
Aqua Action Watersports. (Red
Hook Plaza, tel. 340-775-6285). Also rents sea kayaks and windsurfers.
Dive
In. (Doubletree Sapphire Resort & Marina, tel. 340-775-6100
ext. 2144/800-524-2090 ext. 2144). Dive-hotel packages available;
Kid's Klub for ages 4-12, great for diving parents.
Underwater
Safaris. (Yacht Haven Marina, tel. 340-774-1350). Underwater
videographer available for professional videos as souvenirs. Dive Sites
Andreas Reef - Starting at 30', this multilevel
reef reveals a wide variety of both soft and hard corals, invertebrates
and many tropical fish, down to a maximum depth of 70'.
Cartanza
Sr. - This World War I tramp steamer lies 35' down in a
sheltered cove off Buck Island, south of Charlotte Amalie harbor.
It's beautifully encrusted and full of fish.
Coki
Beach - A good dive by day, great by night.
Cow
and Calf Rocks - Oodles of swim-throughs, tunnels and undercuts
are in 20' to 40' of water. Go when conditions are calm since
storm surge can make this a tricky dive.
Frenchcap -
On the south side of St. Thomas, this attractive pinnacle stands
in 80' to 100' of water.
Grassco
Junction - These isolated coral mounds are each 10- to
30-yards across and sit on a sandy bottom in 55' of water.
Five or six mounds reach up to within 35' of the surface and
are covered with colorful corals and florescent fish.
Hans
Lollik Island - Plenty of pinnacles and ledges to see here.
Major
General Rogers - Off the Renaissance Grand Beach Resort
is the wreck of a 150' Coast Guard buoy tender. The vessel
is fully intact and safe for entering at a maximum depth of
64'.
Submarine
Alley - Near Capella island, this advanced dive on the
south side of St. Thomas boasts large coral islands, rising
from a sandy bottom 80' deep.
Thatch,
Grass and Congo Cays - Start in the Caribbean sea, dive
along the black volcanic rock tunnels of Thatch at 40' and
end up on the other side in the Atlantic at a depth of 15'.
There are mini-walls off Congo and all three cays are good
eel, ray and lobster locales.
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