Quick but worthwhile tangent; from reading over time, I've gotten the impression in St. Croix the reef sharks are mainly seen at sites off the north coast (where I saw plenty), not the west (where I've only had 2 boat and 1 pier dives). In your diving over a 2 week period at the west coast, did you guys see any reef sharks in St. Croix?
Yes! We only did one dive on the north side at WAPA and it was rough due to high winds, but there were 3 reef sharks and they stayed with us throughout much of the dive.
On the (calm) westside we saw 4 reef sharks during a dive at Armageddon and 2 reef sharks at Deep Wrecks. We also saw Nurse Sharks at other westside sites like Cables and Sprat Hall.
I'm sure that we would have seen more sharks in St. Croix if we had been able to dive Cane Bay Wall but we still got to see a lot of big stuff on the west side like stingrays, large green morays, turtles, barracudas, tarpons, and a very large Eagle Ray, but no Groupers. We didn't dive every day but I think that you can expect to see quite a few sharks on various sites around St. Croix - including the west side.
And of course the small stuff you can see at the Fredricksted Pier is amazing. We saw seahorse, octopus, spotted and golden morays, a sharp tailed eel, lobsters, scorpion fish, porcupine fish, and more!
I am very glad that we had the chance to safely go on a tropical dive trip and vacation during this crazy year; and it seems that we got very lucky because if we had been in places like Florida, Cayman, or Cozumel during the same timeframe, we probably would have gotten stung by the rough weather; but I would still love to get back to Cayman some time soon!