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We aren't scheduled until October. Hopefully we'll be able to get thereI just read yesterday that USVIs are reverting to phase 2 COVID-19 precautions.
“Beginning Monday, August 17, 2020, all non-essential businesses and churches are ordered to cease operations and the public is ordered to stay at home unless shopping for food, seeking medical services, or conducting core life services”
Are the islands still open to tourism? @mwall04 can you please comment if you are still on the island?
I hope you can make it! Good luck.We aren't scheduled until October. Hopefully we'll be able to get there
I just read yesterday that USVIs are reverting to phase 2 COVID-19 precautions.
“Beginning Monday, August 17, 2020, all non-essential businesses and churches are ordered to cease operations and the public is ordered to stay at home unless shopping for food, seeking medical services, or conducting core life services”
Are the islands still open to tourism? @mwall04 can you please comment if you are still on the island?
Just checking into Scubaboard after a short break while we were moving and noticed this post. My wife and I recently moved to St. Croix, so if you have more questions or need more input, let me know.
let me know if you have any questions or need any recommendations.
Oh, I definitely am going to bookmark this! I'm a professor and have learned that my college has decided that we will not do in-person classes in Spring 2021, but remain online. For that reason I was exploring the idea of doing an extended stay in St. Croix at minimum for a month.
It's just me, a 47 year old woman (and if I decide to stay more than one month I'd bring my pup.) So I'm not going to have any dive buddies down there initially. I was wondering if the pier is anything like diving the Blue Heron Bridge in Rivera Beach, Florida where it's easy for people to meet other folks for diving -- so many people do the shore dives there that you meet people quickly.
I was hoping to do some re-con over a long weekend in October, but I guess I'll have to play it by ear and watch what your governor says about "stay at home" orders.
We are officially back open for business in the US Virgin Islands. The only restriction is you must have proof of a negative COVID test within 5 days (I think) of travel or a positive antibody test within the past 6 months. Otherwise you need a test when you arrive or face a 14 day quarantine.
It is relatively easy to meet other divers. The pier is a good place and Cane Bay is another where numbers of shore divers congregate.
I’ve never heard anything negative about any of the dive operations on the island.Thanks for the info! It sounds like all the dive outfits in the Frederiksted are reputable? I've not read anything negative about any of them -- any one that locals like to support more than others? (I've encountered places where the locals refuse to get their tanks filled because those outfits are the only ones that fill for known poachers, or bad owners, etc.)