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We're going on a cruise in a couple of months and plan to dive as much as possible. Our ship stops at Nassau in the morning for 5 hours, St Maarten for an afternoon, Tortola all day and Half Moon Cay all day. Does anyone have recommendations for favorite dive sites or operators on these islands? Any that you can arrange transportation to and from the curise ship port etc. I'm sure that the ship will have suba excursions you can buy from them but wouldn't it be better to make our own arrangements. Probably cheaper too.
We are new divers with about 12 dives since certifing so we will want to be with an operator who will be patient with us and where we will not feel pressured by the abilities and comfort levels of a large and more experienced group. We have done almost all of our diving from shore in Curacao by ourselves and feel comfortable with making our own dive plans and being very conservitive. We have only dove from a boat once and we were the only scuba divers on board, everyone else was a snorkler so we got to plan our own dive with the DM then too. He was on his third dive of the day so he was thrilled with our plan to stay fairly shallow anyway.
Is there a shore diving option on any of these islands? Or all boat? What kind of easy diving is available?
We are new divers with about 12 dives since certifing so we will want to be with an operator who will be patient with us and where we will not feel pressured by the abilities and comfort levels of a large and more experienced group. We have done almost all of our diving from shore in Curacao by ourselves and feel comfortable with making our own dive plans and being very conservitive. We have only dove from a boat once and we were the only scuba divers on board, everyone else was a snorkler so we got to plan our own dive with the DM then too. He was on his third dive of the day so he was thrilled with our plan to stay fairly shallow anyway.
Is there a shore diving option on any of these islands? Or all boat? What kind of easy diving is available?