Although I have dove both ends of St Thomas, I prefer the West side diving better. I prefer to see big animals, and I enjoy wreck diving. The number of, size of, and quality of the wreck diving in St Thomas is amazing. We have seen Bull Shark, Blacktip Reef Shark, Caribbean Reef Shark, Wahoo, Tuna, Cobia and African Pompano on our wreck dives there. Big Eagle Rays and turtles have been present too. The reef diving around little Saba has some of the healthiest fields of Elkhorn coral I've seen in the Caribbean, the fish counts are through the roof on all the reefs we dove, and we saw Caribbean Reef Sharks on 2 of the reef dives as well. We did 8 dives, 2 weeks ago and only saw 1 Lionfish. The shops are being very proactive to keep their numbers down and it really shows. St Thomas dosen't get the recognition it deserves for it's diving and it's a shame. We always dive with Blue Island Divers. They've treated us like part of the family since the first time we dove with them.
We've also done a few trips to St Croix and dove with Ed and Molly at Scuba St Croix. Great wall diving in STX and they're a great shop to dive with. My type of diving makes me a little partial to STT, but that's only my opinion.
Not sure where in Virginia you are, but we flew round trip from Dulles to St Thomas for $368.00 2 weeks ago.
