Anyone ever dove St. Croix?

[woodfrogs]

Love Derrick and Anna at N2 the Blue! The Pier is an awesome macro dive, lots of seahorses, crabs, lobsters, octopi, etc. Dove it both day and night last week.

 

[5615mike]

I dove with several operations in St Croix. SCUBA had a very nice boat. Everyone was very friendly and professional. A very sterile operation. DM's were a bit of a mother hen in my opinion.

I really enjoyed diving up in the Cane Bay Area and loved diving with Cane Bay Divers (right on the beach). That's who I will dive with next time I am there.

St. Croix has some great Wall Diving. North Star, West Wall that whole reef system is a must. Fredrickstedt Pier is doable at least once, but only at night.

All in all a great time!!!!

jcf

Second that. SCUBA runs a nice operation.

 

[scoobadivinchick]

Thanks again everyone for the info.

Laura

 

[prskate2]

Have a friend that lives in St. Croix so I go there all the time. I normally go for a weekend and do about 5-6 dives. Great diving. Very diverse. Plenty of everything. Wrecks, Walls...

St. Croix actually has the longest vertical wall in the World.

 

[blueeyes_austin]

When I was a tadpole back in the early 1980s I lived on the west end of St. Croix. We'd go up to Cane Bay in our Bronco (very rough roads) and it was basically deserted. (As I recall there were some ruins of an old hotel that had washed away in the 1920s or 1930s.)

Anyhoo, we'd snorkel out through the coral garden out to the wall and just watch it descend into infinity (or so it seemed at the time). Had a profound effect on me, probably the thing that drove me to learn to dive more than any other experience. Never forget seeing a big ol' hammerhead snaking away far below me on the wall....

Between that and endless hours spent snorkeling off the St. Croix Country Club beach north of Frederiksted it cemented a lifelong love of the ocean for me. I still have a bunch of pottery shards and other rusted treasures from those Frederiksted snorkles kicking around!

 

[prskate2]

St. Croix really is great.

 

[5615mike]

Second that opinion.

Ditto. SCUBA is a nice operation and we enjoyed ourselves but it was not what I would call a diving destination. Obviously better than not diving but not a place I would return to specifically dive. We enjoyed the island and had fun exploring. If we go back to VI it will be to BVI.

 

[Chipmon]

I go to St. Croix every year. I have gone out with SCUBA twice. If you are a beginner or not confident in your skills, they are OK. I felt out of place on their boat because everyone else was a beginner or had not been diving in a while. Ed and his wife are very nice, but for me, I prefer not diving with a boat full of beginners. The sites they usually go to are pretty but not terrific. On the other hand, if you go to Cane Bay and dive various parts of the wall, it's awesome.

 

[Damselfish]

one thing that bugged me about SCUBA (now this is a long time ago) was that they seemed to favor closer sites. When we requested sites that we'd heard were the better ones - but were a bit further away - they always said conditions weren't good. Perhaps true, but I'm not sure I bought it.

 

[robint]

I have heard many mixed reviews of diving in St. Croix. Many of the people who didn't think it was great were diving there many years ago - I wonder if the diving has improved that much?

On the Nekton Rorqual, in April (in Bahamas), the boat and crew had recently returned from their first winter season in St. Croix and everyone raved about the diving there. Now, taking this with a grain of salt as they were the crew telling us we should go with them next season, they did say that they loved the diving there as there were lots of macro life, frogfish, seahorses, unusual fish finds, deep dives and wall dives, and some wrecks. They really did make it sound like a fun trip and made us consider it. So I am wondering, is it as good as they say? Or do they get to the better dive sites so for the Nekton trips, it is great diving? Or are they a bit bias?

Any opinions?

robin