EFR INSTRUCTOR - $425+

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CPR and first aid are key skills that are important to everyone, not just scuba divers. As an Emergency First Response Instructor, you teach skills based on internationally recognized emergency care guidelines, and you can offer courses to anyone. The great thing about EFR courses is they make learning easy by providing a comfortable environment to practice emergency care skills. Your students finish the course feeling confident with their new skills and ready to help someone in need.

The only requirements are that you’re at least 18 years old and have Emergency First Response Primary and Secondary Care (CPR and First Aid) training within the past 24 months. An EFR Instructor rating is required to become a PADI Instructor, but you don’t have to wait until you’re ready to go pro. You can complete or refresh this training during your PADI Instructor training.

EMERGENCY FIRST RESPONDER - $120

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Emergency First Response training focuses on building confidence in lay rescuers and increasing their willingness to respond when faced with a medical emergency. Course participants learn simple to follow steps for emergency care and practice applying skills in a nonstressful learning environment. All courses are supported by self-study manuals, videos and quick reference cards to enhance learning and allow you start learning right away.

EFR courses meet the CPR and first aid training requirements for the PADI Rescue Diver course and all professional-level ratings. Most PADI Instructors are also Emergency First Response Instructors.

SPECIALTIES - $100

SPECIALTY CERTIFICATIONS OR MASTER SCUBA DIVER

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After you’ve tried a specialty in the Advanced Open Water Diver course, you’ll probably want to take the whole course and learn more: we can tech AWARE-fish identification, Project AWARE, boat diving, deep diving, diver propulsion vehicle-Scooters, drift diving, multilevel and computer diving, night diving, peak performance buoyancy, search and recovery, underwater navigation, underwater photography, underwater videography, oxygen provider, EFR, Nitrox, wreck diving, shark diving specialty and more..

Dive Flag Rock

BEGINNER - INTERMEDIATE

Average Depth:   25-65 ft

Time to Site:       15 min

A beautiful reef north of Buck Island with an abundance of fish and coral varieties.  Nurse Sharks & Spotted Eagle Rays frequent the area.  The reef is a wall that reaches 65 feet.  This is a great dive for photographers.  It's home to some of our most fearless Angel Fish and sometimes the channel has some of our friendly Caribbean Reef Sharks!

Cow & Calf

2 sites/same location

BEGINNER

Average Depth:   20-45 ft

Time to Site:       10 min

Cow & Calf are two of the most recognized dive sites in St. Thomas.  Small caves/swim throughs and beautiful Elkhorn corals are the dominant features.  Since this dive site is in a nationally protected park, you will find an abundance of lobsters, crab & other hunted creatures.  There are good opportunities to see Nurse Sharks, Turtles, Angel Fish, Sand Dollars & other flourishing, protected, sea life.

Dog Island

BEGINNER

Average Depth:   20-45 ft

Time to Site:       15 min

Just South East of Little St. James Island is a place where the Caribbean Sea Lions once nested.  It is unspoiled and remote.  This is a dive site where we always see Rays and find Sand Dollars.  The current varies from day-to-day, so a drift dive may be an added bonus.

Navy Barges

BEGINNER

Average Depth:   30-60 ft

Time to Site:       15 min

These four shallow & one deep, well-lit wrecks, are a haven for marine life.  They were used as accommodation barges during the 2nd World War.  After the war, they were used as a Navy training area & finally sunk in 1961.  The wrecks are encrusted with sponges & other corals.  Many hiding spaces are occupied by Octopuses.  Don’t forget your camera!

Packet Rock

BEGINNER

Average Depth:   50 ft

Time to Site:       15 min

At 50 ft, this mini-pinnacle is named for one of the unlucky ships that have hit the rock over the year.  The HMS Warwick, a Royal Mail Packet Steamship.  In 1816, Captain Simpson was making way to Charlotte Amalie Harbor when he hit Packet Rock.  The Warwick was carrying cargo to St. Thomas & in an attempt to save his ship, he ordered that the cargo be thrown overboard.  Unfortunately, they were unable to save the ship & it eventually sank.  All that remains today are roofing tiles, broken pottery shards, clay smoking pipes & a giant cauldron.  This dive is like a treasure hunt!  Also home to huge French & Queen Angels, schools of Barracuda, Hawksbill Turtles, Nurse Sharks & Triggerfish.

Stragglers

BEGINNER - INTERMEDIATE

Average Depth:   30-60 ft

Time to Site:       10 min

Nicely protected on the Lee side of Great St. James, Stragglers is the perfect option on a rough, stormy day!  The dive starts in a small, but very pretty, system of canyons where you can often find Nurse Sharks & Turtles.  There is also a beautiful reef wall section where you may get lucky and catch a passing Spotted Eagle Ray or even a small Reef Shark!

Congo

BEGINNER - ADVANCED

Average Depth:   35-75 ft

Time to Site:       20 min

This site is considered a dive in the Atlantic, not the Caribbean.  You will see the difference in the size of sea fans, crab & a different ‘crowd of fish.”  At the right time of the year, you will swim among thousands of bait fish with Tuna, Jacks, Tarpons & Pelicans hunting them from above!  This is a wall full of surprises!

Drift Dive

BEGINNER - ADVANCED

Average Depth:   20-75 ft

Time to Site:       10-40 min

We have several dive sites for drift diving in St. Thomas.  Depending on the current, waves, time of say & weather, we will select the most appropriate site.  Enjoy your dive and upon surfacing, the boat will be waiting next to you.  Drift diving is very relaxing and YES, we have a captain who knows what he’s doing!

French Cap

INTERMEDIATE - ADVANCED

Average Depth:   55-85 ft

Time to Site:       25 min

This is one of our personal favorite dive sites.  It is close to the South drop, so there is always a surprise waiting for us; big fish & lots of them.  Usually lots of sharks and turtles here as well!  It is a place where it is easy to forget the time, so you will need a dive computer for this dive (don’t worry, it’s included in our price).  Bring your camera for this dive.  It doesn’t get better!

WIT -

Concrete

ADVANCED DIVER

Average Depth:   55-95 ft

Time to Site:       30 min

The WIT Concrete was built in 1943 in Oakland, California & sunk in Hurricane Marylyn (1995) near Crown Bay. The wreck was blocking the boat channel, so it was raised from the bottom of the sea & re-sunk at the new location. The ship was a fuel carrier during WW2 commissioned in the Pacific. The wreck is almost completely preserved with the exception of the stern section where we can see the "ribs" of the construction.  We regularly encounter large Sharks, Turtles, Rays and Jacks.

Miss

Opportunity

ADVANCED DIVER

Average Depth:   45-95 ft

Time to Site:       40 min

The Miss Opportunity rests on her right side in 95 feet on a sandy bottom.  She is over 300 feet long & it is possible to dive the entire length inside the hull with plenty of "escape" holes.  Miss Opportunity was serving as a Naval Hospital ship. She sunk 1985.  She has a resident Octopus, look for her in one of the upper portholes.  Several big Lobsters and other fish also call her home.

WIT -

Power

ADVANCED DIVER

Average Depth:   90-100 ft

Time to Site:       45 min

The WIT Power originally sunk in Krum Bay, South of St. Thomas during Tropical Storm Klaus November 06, 1984. In attempt to bring her to the surface in April, 1985 the salvage operation encountered several obstacles & complications; she sunk again. She is one of the most intact wrecks in St. Thomas.  Smaller in size, she is only 120 feet long & 50 feet tall.  She sits upright on the sandy bottom & is covered with coral growth and home to several schools of fish.

Grainton

ADVANCED DIVER

Average Depth:   100 ft

Time to Site:        30 min

The SS Grainton was built by Chapman & Willan.  Launched on March 26, 1911.  She was a Royal Naval Collier and later chartered for wheat cargos from the U.S. to Australia.  On May 31, 1928 she struck rocks off Saba Island and was re-floated & taken in tow, but it never reached her intended destination.  SS Grainton lies in a depth of 110 feet with open gunwales, exposing her 3-cylinder, 20-feet high & 10-feet wide steam engine.  Today a lot of imagination is needed to be able to see how magnificent this boat once was. Nurse Shark encounters are quite common under her "belly.”

Shark/Fish

Bowl

INTERMEDIATE - ADVANCED

Average Depth:   25-85 ft

Time to Site:       30 min

Usually a drift dive, "Shark/Fish or Coral bowl" is a natural sand-filled bowl within a ring of volcanic boulders, covered with gorgonians and filled with corals, sponges, sea rods and sea fans more common in deeper water.  We often have 3 resident Sharks following us on our dives, but you never know what you’ll get on this dive, so occasionally there are no Sharks, but lots of fish so we have, Fish bowl!  And yes, you guessed it, sometimes we just enjoy amazing corals. A dream for all photographers & dive lovers!

Ledges of Little St. James

BEGINNER

Average Depth:   20-40 ft

Time to Site:       15 min

This is a fairly easy dive with Turtles, Sting Rays & other tropical fish.  It's made up of ledges and overhangs from Little St. James Island teeming with coral.  Octopuses and Eels are often spotted hiding out here as well as many Lobsters.  This site can also be a good snorkel and night dive opportunity!