I'm moving to St Thomas and looking forward to getting back into diving. This is happening fast, have a million questions, but trying to keep them to dive topics.
I have been out of diving for many years. I will probably look at taking an open water course again as a refresher. Any preferred dive schools? As I prep, and plan I am wondering if I should track down good dive gear and ship it in or is there a good selection on the island? Overpriced and limited selection? Good used gear for sale locally?
I used to do a lot of diving from a small (14ft flat bottom) boat when I lived in Panama. It was small, light, and easy to manage. Worked great for lots of areas on the Atlantic side where it was not to rough most of the time, and lots of sites close to shore.. Are there good dive sites around St Thomas that are accessible by small craft or are they generally farther out?
Like I said lots of questions. I guess i'm just excited to be getting back to the region and diving. Want to show up ready to go.
Thanks
I have been out of diving for many years. I will probably look at taking an open water course again as a refresher. Any preferred dive schools? As I prep, and plan I am wondering if I should track down good dive gear and ship it in or is there a good selection on the island? Overpriced and limited selection? Good used gear for sale locally?
I used to do a lot of diving from a small (14ft flat bottom) boat when I lived in Panama. It was small, light, and easy to manage. Worked great for lots of areas on the Atlantic side where it was not to rough most of the time, and lots of sites close to shore.. Are there good dive sites around St Thomas that are accessible by small craft or are they generally farther out?
Like I said lots of questions. I guess i'm just excited to be getting back to the region and diving. Want to show up ready to go.
Thanks