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STUDIVE:Is there any good diving in St Marteen?
If so what operator should you dive with?
Well Caymaniac, that is not very encouraging. My wife and I decided out of the blue to vacation in Sint Maarten not really knowing how "poor" the diving is. I guess we will spend most of our time on the beach soaking the sun.caymaniac:I was on St. Maarten last April. I dove with ScubaFun which is about a half mile to a mile walk from the cruise port. If you are bringing all your own equipment, be prepared for the walk. We dove off a zodiac type of craft. The boat was crappy, but I thought the 2 dives I did were quite good. I've heard St. Martin wasn't all that great for diving but the dives we did were just fine. The first dive was on a wreck outside of the harbor and took about 20 minutes to get to. The wreck was in about 60 to 70 feet and we penetrated the wreck to go up some stairs on the inside. It was quite dark inside the wreck, if I had known this I would have taken a light. The wreck had a number of tropicals as well as eels.
The second dive was close to and just east of the wreck in about 40 feet. This was a nice reef, not really spectacular but very nice. Visibility was at or near 80ft. We saw two reef sharks on that dive which I really enjoyed as well as the reef which seemed healthy and colorful. I did not log the names of the those dives so I can't tell you what they were, but if you contact Scuba Fun, maybe they would help you out. I found them on the web.
Also, welcome to the board!
Scott101:Greetings,
I think that you will enjoy diving in St. Maarten. I have logged 50 plus dives there (my wife loves the island) and enjoyed everyone. Granted, its not Cozumel, but the vis is good, the marine live is good, and the reefs and wrecks are nice.
I am a big fan of Aquamania (Dive Adventures) in Simpson Bay (under the Pelican Resort). They now have their own Nitrox fill station and the crew are now like an extenced family.
If you would like to see some pics from there (last April I think):
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frasure711/my_photos
Good luck and have a great time.
Chocoholic:Thanks for the pics. How warm was the water in April? How about the vis at that time of year? Just dreaming and trying to decide where to go. choco