Luca Brasi
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Does anyone have information about diving in Tortola? Also St Thomas! I am considering a vacation to the area
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I'd definitely second the Rhone and the Indians.There is some decent diving in the BVI, but not necessarily on Tortola. I am not sure that there is enough to do a dive trip there, but a vacation with some diving in very doable. I have not dove in the USVI so I can't commment there. My favorite sites that we dove in ythe BVI were: The Indians (rocks off Norman Island), The Rhone, and The Chikuzen. The dive at the Indians might have been my favorite Carribean dive ever. It was a day that the siversides were running so we saw pelagics in addition to the normal reef fish. And any diver of a certain age will need to dive the wreck of the Rhone. I know it wasn't the same green morey that we saw, but it was still pretty cool. If you are not of a certain age, see the movie "The Deep" to understand.
We used Sail Carribean Divers who have locations on Tortola and Cooper Island (we stayed on Cooper and did 3 days of diving).
Jackie
I look forward to your trip report on that. It’s a liveaboard that my non-diving wife might consider doing.Going on the Cuan Law in November. No high expectations for world-class (or even Caribbean-class) diving.
I'd definitely second the Rhone and the Indians.
The best trip I've ever had in the Caribbean (diving or otherwise) was chartering a catamaran for a week in the BVI and just sailing around where we wanted, setting up and doing our own dives off the back. We were about 1/2 divers, 1/2 non so the trip mostly centered on sailing but we were able to get in a dive or two daily. You can exchange out tanks at nearly every port in the BVI.
Well, did you make it back? Did you do the swim through? Since the three of us diving had never been without a DM, we wanted to take it very easy, but going through the wreck was the one thing we decided to risk and no regrets. It was so cool.The Rhone is what triggered us to get certified. We had chartered a 45' sailboat, sailed each day, snorkeled when we anchored.