A number of dive shops serve St Thomas and provide a safe, comfortable scuba diving experience for beginners or experienced divers. Advanced certification courses are available here, as well as complete instruction for beginners.

Operators

Blue Island Divers
Tel: 1 (340) 774-2001
Email: barefoot@blueislanddivers.com

Aqua Action Watersports. (Red Hook Plaza, tel. 340-775-6285). Also rents sea kayaks and windsurfers.

Blue Island Divers
Suite 505, Crown Bay Marina, Sub Base, St Thomas, USVI 00802
Tel: 1 (340) 774 2001
Fax: 1 (340) 777 9600
Email: diveusvi@islands.vi

Coki Beach Dive Club. (Coki Beach, tel. 340-775-4220/800-474-CO K I). Beach and night dive specialities.

Dive In. (Doubletree Sapphire Resort & Marina, tel. 340-775-6100 ext. 2144/800-524-2090 ext. 2144). Dive-hotel packages available; Kid's Klub for ages 4-12, great for diving parents.  

St. Thomas Diving Club. (Bolongo Bay Beach Club & Villas, tel. 340-776-2381). Specializes in open-water certification courses; weekly trips to the WWI cargo ship, Cartanza Sr..

Underwater Safaris. (Yacht Haven Marina, tel. 340-774-1350). Underwater videographer available for professional videos as souvenirs.

Dive Sites

Andreas Reef - Starting at 30', this multilevel reef reveals a wide variety of both soft and hard corals, invertebrates and many tropical fish, down to a maximum depth of 70'.

Cartanza Sr. - This World War I tramp steamer lies 35' down in a sheltered cove off Buck Island, south of Charlotte Amalie harbor. It's beautifully encrusted and full of fish.

Coki Beach - A good dive by day, great by night.

Cow and Calf Rocks - Oodles of swim-throughs, tunnels and undercuts are in 20' to 40' of water. Go when conditions are calm since storm surge can make this a tricky dive.

Frenchcap - On the south side of St. Thomas, this attractive pinnacle stands in 80' to 100' of water.

Grassco Junction - These isolated coral mounds are each 10- to 30-yards across and sit on a sandy bottom in 55' of water. Five or six mounds reach up to within 35' of the surface and are covered with colorful corals and florescent fish.

Hans Lollik Island - Plenty of pinnacles and ledges to see here.

Major General Rogers - Off the Renaissance Grand Beach Resort is the wreck of a 150' Coast Guard buoy tender. The vessel is fully intact and safe for entering at a maximum depth of 64'.

Submarine Alley - Near Capella island, this advanced dive on the south side of St. Thomas boasts large coral islands, rising from a sandy bottom 80' deep.

Thatch, Grass and Congo Cays - Start in the Caribbean sea, dive along the black volcanic rock tunnels of Thatch at 40' and end up on the other side in the Atlantic at a depth of 15'. There are mini-walls off Congo and all three cays are good eel, ray and lobster locales.