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St Croix diving - a top experience
St Croix Virgin Islands offer a vast array of dive experiences like no other destination in the world. There is a rare aquatic world, teeming with marine life to be discovered when St Croix Virgin Islands diving.
Beginners and experts are welcome. It’s not even as difficult as you may think. Lessons and guides for St Croix Virgin Islands diving can be found throughout the place along with the possibility to practice other water sports you might be interested in. So, if you’re interested in St Croix Virgin Islands diving, check our partner sites which can provide you much useful information and great deals on the every detail of St Croix Virgin Islands diving.
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St Croix diving - total immersion
St Croix Virgin Islands presents a variety of St Croix Virgin Islands diving experiences. St Croix Virgin Islands diving is so popular because it has all the right ingredients for divers and snorkelers, clear water, abundant sea life and a special underwater landscape.
Total immersion is the best way to appreciate the remarkable sea life and its distinctive tranquility and appeal.
Learning to dive is a unique experience unto itself, but after you know how, you'll definitely enjoy distinctive feeling of St Croix Virgin Islands diving that allows enthusiasts to see creatures they could never meet any other way.
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St Croix diving - enjoy distinctive feeling
St. Croix boasts the largest living reef of any Caribbean island as it is almost completely surrounded by a barrier reef. Most diving on St. Croix is done along the north and west shores. There are 52 moored dive sites along those shores. This reduces the need for dive boats to anchor and risk damaging the reef. Careful dive operators can take their divers to hundreds of dive sites in addition to the moored ones. With the dive boat, most sites are within 20 minutes from our dock. A spectacular wall runs along the entire north shore. In most places the wall begins at about 30'-40' and drops off to 13,200 feet! (Into deep diving?) Davis Bay (just off the Westin Carambola Beach Resort), Northstar, and Cane Bay are at the western end of the north shore diving and can boast the steepest wall in the world. In places it's like looking down an elevator shaft. There's plenty of coral and sponge life down the wall and a lot of marine life all along the top. Another couple of miles east is Salt River, the only site in America where Columbus actually landed, which he and his crew did in 1493. Salt River (it's actually more of a bay) was home to NOAA's Hydrolab for quite a few years. Both the East and West walls are spectacular dives that are frequented by both dolphins and sharks and border a canyon that's 300' deep. The west wall sites (Columbus Bluff and Grouper Grotto) have superb topography with a series of mini canyons you can swim through while the east wall's sites (Russ' Rock and Barracuda Bank) have an incredible amount of marine life, sponges, coral, and gorgonia. There are four wrecks located off the west shore of the island. Now these aren't Spanish galleons or anything like that. There's a large container ship, a tug boat (you might have seen it in the movie Dreams of Gold the Mel Fisher Story), an oil barge and a small cargo ship that have all been sunk for dive sites. The container ship Rosa Maria was hauling cinder blocks to St. Croix but they off loaded one side first which flipped the ship over and sank it. It was towed to this site and dynamited to sink it. Only half of the dynamite went off which flipped it back to right side up before sinking. Don't worry the rest of the dynamite was removed. The bow of this ship is in about 70' and the propeller touches the sand at 110'. Just south of it are the other three wrecks which are in shallow enough water to make a good second dive. South of that point there are many almost virgin coral reefs in only about 30' of water. They stretch along the entire west end of the island.
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St Croix Vacations site
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In the link section, you can check more links to our travel website network as well as to other third party specialized websites as lastminute.com or orbitz.com which we suggest you to visit if are you planning a trip to St Croix Virgin Islands.
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