Scuba_Vixen
Guest
Hey gang,
I've lived here on St Croix for the last 10 years or so, and never been off the island for vacation. The island's cost of living and a paycheck that doesn't seem to take that into consideration is most to blame, I suppose, anyway, I was thinking it would be fun to dive the St Thomas wrecks for a week, and came here looking for dive op info.
What I discovered was that finally, I'm not the only one here from St Croix any more. That's the cool part.
What I also discovered, is that just like here, dive ops there, are geared towards the large vacation/recreational market, and the opportunities for advanced, technical, or rebreather local divers to dive to their skill and training levels, just aren't there. That's the not so cool part.
Blue Island divers still has the DSAT stuff on their website, but they show nothing about O2 fills or being rebreather friendly or anything else that would indicate any level of current "tech friendly" accomodations.
So instead of trying to plan a wreck week in St Thomas with a local dive op, I got to thinking about getting a small group of similar divers together and chartering a sailboat, maybe like the "Kindred Spirit" for a week of diving without the "you gotta be back on board in less than an hour", "If you go deeper than 100', you're surely gonna die", and the infamous wail, "You better not go in/down there" crap.
We could bring the kind of gear we need to do the dives we plan to do, and plan the dives we'd never get to do with the usual dive operators.
Is there anyone here interested in such a trip?
If so, let's see if we can make it happen...
Darlene
I've lived here on St Croix for the last 10 years or so, and never been off the island for vacation. The island's cost of living and a paycheck that doesn't seem to take that into consideration is most to blame, I suppose, anyway, I was thinking it would be fun to dive the St Thomas wrecks for a week, and came here looking for dive op info.
What I discovered was that finally, I'm not the only one here from St Croix any more. That's the cool part.
What I also discovered, is that just like here, dive ops there, are geared towards the large vacation/recreational market, and the opportunities for advanced, technical, or rebreather local divers to dive to their skill and training levels, just aren't there. That's the not so cool part.
Blue Island divers still has the DSAT stuff on their website, but they show nothing about O2 fills or being rebreather friendly or anything else that would indicate any level of current "tech friendly" accomodations.
So instead of trying to plan a wreck week in St Thomas with a local dive op, I got to thinking about getting a small group of similar divers together and chartering a sailboat, maybe like the "Kindred Spirit" for a week of diving without the "you gotta be back on board in less than an hour", "If you go deeper than 100', you're surely gonna die", and the infamous wail, "You better not go in/down there" crap.
We could bring the kind of gear we need to do the dives we plan to do, and plan the dives we'd never get to do with the usual dive operators.
Is there anyone here interested in such a trip?
If so, let's see if we can make it happen...
Darlene
