Thomas Ciampi
New
I was here for a week and stayed at the Divi Little Bay, which had an Aqua Mania shop on property.
Ocean Explorers
By far the best shop on the island. It is located in Simpson Bay and is not too far away from many of the top dive sites. Jeff takes care of captaining the boat, leading the dives and most importantly, he makes sure that all of his divers are accounted for and are enjoying their dive. Their focus is on safety, comfort, and efficiency. My dive buddy had struggled to find the right amount of weight and Jeff added weight and removed weight throughout the dive to ensure that she was properly weighted. His wife, Luciana, runs the front end of the shop and takes care of all of the bookings and payment. She was personable and seemed to take her job very seriously. This shop is run extremely professionally. Despite the appearance of a small shop and small boats, they make everything run smoothly and efficiently and they prep you to enter and exit the boat in the quickest, easiest, safest way possible. Another reason I found this shop to be the best on the island was their number of dive sites. On our last dive, we dove at one of their sites and a turtle that they rescued swam up and interacted with all of the divers on the trip. I can't say enough how much I liked this shop when compared to the others on the island.
Dive Adventures
This is another family-run shop on the island. This is the shop that I reached out to before getting to the island. They are extremely friendly and seem to know a lot about diving here. Unfortunately, they had a family emergency and had to leave the island when I arrived. I did stop by their shop to look around and I would say that they had some of the best gear on the island for sale. If you need to buy top of the line gear gets it from this shop.
Aqua Mania
STAY AWAY! This shop was a mess. They have hands in too many activities other than diving. They are not worth your time. They are not professional at all and run their boats as an experienced outsider would. On the one dive, I did with this shop the two dive masters were joking about one of their patrons from the other day who got bent. Just not the shop you want to dive with if you are looking for a smooth streamline dive shop. Their website prices and what you actually pay in person are totally different. Just stay away if you can.
Ocean Explorers
By far the best shop on the island. It is located in Simpson Bay and is not too far away from many of the top dive sites. Jeff takes care of captaining the boat, leading the dives and most importantly, he makes sure that all of his divers are accounted for and are enjoying their dive. Their focus is on safety, comfort, and efficiency. My dive buddy had struggled to find the right amount of weight and Jeff added weight and removed weight throughout the dive to ensure that she was properly weighted. His wife, Luciana, runs the front end of the shop and takes care of all of the bookings and payment. She was personable and seemed to take her job very seriously. This shop is run extremely professionally. Despite the appearance of a small shop and small boats, they make everything run smoothly and efficiently and they prep you to enter and exit the boat in the quickest, easiest, safest way possible. Another reason I found this shop to be the best on the island was their number of dive sites. On our last dive, we dove at one of their sites and a turtle that they rescued swam up and interacted with all of the divers on the trip. I can't say enough how much I liked this shop when compared to the others on the island.
Dive Adventures
This is another family-run shop on the island. This is the shop that I reached out to before getting to the island. They are extremely friendly and seem to know a lot about diving here. Unfortunately, they had a family emergency and had to leave the island when I arrived. I did stop by their shop to look around and I would say that they had some of the best gear on the island for sale. If you need to buy top of the line gear gets it from this shop.
Aqua Mania
STAY AWAY! This shop was a mess. They have hands in too many activities other than diving. They are not worth your time. They are not professional at all and run their boats as an experienced outsider would. On the one dive, I did with this shop the two dive masters were joking about one of their patrons from the other day who got bent. Just not the shop you want to dive with if you are looking for a smooth streamline dive shop. Their website prices and what you actually pay in person are totally different. Just stay away if you can.