Tortola Scuba Dive w/ Dolphins?

We're going on a cruise and are wondering if there's any where in
Tortola where we can snorkel/scuba with dolphins in the wild? I dont
want to do the Discovery Dolphin thing- we want to be free with them.
Does anyone know of such a place?

If not- maybe anywhere in Nassau or St Thomas?
Thanks
D

<damon.smyers@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> We're going on a cruise and are wondering if there's any where in
> Tortola where we can snorkel/scuba with dolphins in the wild? I dont
> want to do the Discovery Dolphin thing- we want to be free with them.
> Does anyone know of such a place?
>
> If not- maybe anywhere in Nassau or St Thomas?
> Thanks

I really can't say for Tortola, but for many other places, if we ended up
with dolphins in the wild, it was pretty much a serendipitous experience.

<damon.smyers@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> We're going on a cruise and are wondering if there's any where in
> Tortola where we can snorkel/scuba with dolphins in the wild? I dont
> want to do the Discovery Dolphin thing- we want to be free with them.
> Does anyone know of such a place?

Just because you want to be free with them doesn't mean they want to be free
with you. Best bet, find a boat charter of any sort that routinely
experiences dolphins riding the bow. Dolphins are much more interested in
swimming with boats than swimming with people, so you'll have much better
odds of spotting them from a boat. Then jump in and try to keep up.

<damon.smyers@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> We're going on a cruise and are wondering if there's any where in
> Tortola where we can snorkel/scuba with dolphins in the wild? I dont
> want to do the Discovery Dolphin thing- we want to be free with them.
> Does anyone know of such a place?
>
> If not- maybe anywhere in Nassau or St Thomas?
> Thanks
> D
>

I've been to Tortola and the rest of the BVIs every October since 1999 and I
have yet to see a dolphin...or a porpoise. Can't say about the other
months. Seen a few rays, sharks, baracuda and groouper though.

Did sail thru a pod of about 1,000 porpoises between St Vincent and
Martinique last June.

True true. Well, it was a thought. Anyone reccommend some awesome shark
dives over there? We're also hitting Nassau (yup- Stuart's cove-
already checked with them, our ship is coming in too late for us to
catch the dive, plus- the have a contract with the cruise line to NOT
take us on that dive... GRRR), Tortola, St Thomas.

I'd be open to any GREAT dive- yes I'd love a shark dive- but- if
someone could reccommend an awesome shop for wall/drift/wreck dive
that'd be great too...
Thanks
D