St Johns

How are the water conditions in the Virgin Islands??? Thanks...

west4961@earthlink.net (John) wrote in message news:<1rb1b.8374$B8.8302@newsread2.news.atl.earthl ink.net>...
> How are the water conditions in the Virgin Islands??? Thanks...

Diving in St Thomas / St. John was good.

There's a reef between the two islands (which are only
1-3 miles apart) called the "Cow and Calf". Very
good diving on this reef with lots of deep ridges
in the coral to look for sea creatures.

Unfortually I can't remember the names of any dive shops
in St John as we used one in the 'west end' of St. Thomas.
But the town is very small and you can walk all of it
and there are dive shops there. We did see them in town.

If you are standing on the ferry pier looking at the shore,
there is a resturant on the right side. There was a dive
boat loading tanks right there, so they are easy to get to.
They didn't have a dock, they just backed the boat up very
close to the shore in a few feet of water.

mike

Water conditions are great. 83 degrees, 50' - 100' viz.

Jim Wilkinson
Ocean Adventure Videos

In article <1rb1b.8374$B8.8302@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.n et>,
west4961@earthlink.net (John) writes:

>How are the water conditions in the Virgin Islands??? Thanks...

Much different from St Johns, Newfoundland!

WRT to St John (no "S"), U S Virgin Islands...

I agree with a prior post that the Calf and Cow is a good site.

I have used the following dive shps on St John:

Cruz Bay Watersports 340.776.6234
Located at the Westin hotel -- also pick up in town

Low Key Watersports http://www.divelowkey.com 340.693.8999
Next to the passenger ferry dock

Paradise Watersports http://www.paradisevi.com 340.693.8690
Located at Caneel Bay hotel

All were fine, although Low Key does not have dock space -- you must
wade (chest/armpit deep) to their boat. I would probably recommend
Cruz Bay as my first choice, although Paradise is a close second.

There is also

Coral Bay Watersports 340.776.6850 (closest to the East End)

I wanted to try diving the East End, but was never able to contact
these people.

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