St. Croix has several diverse types of diving rarely found in one location
- choose between wall
diving, shore diving, reef diving, wreck diving or pier and night dives.
Wreck Dives
Divers of all skill levels also enjoy the armada of wreck dives found off Frederiksted.
The flagship is the encrusted freighter Rosaomaira. Four other wrecks, ranging from a trawler to a discarded
underwater habitat, are grouped together near the Rosa and can be explored on a single dive.
Rosaomaira Dive
Depth: 60 to 110 feet. Skill Level: Novice to advanced Diver.
What You'll See: Pretty in pink and red sponges, the 177-foot-long freighter sits upright
flaunting her 12 years worth of marine growth.
Rosa is the largest of the Frederiksted wrecks
and home to schools of horse-eye jacks, snapper and grouper.
Sunk Old Piers and Ruins Dive
If there is one must-see dive on the West shore, it has to be the Frederiksted Pier.
The old pier was damaged by Hurricane Hugo and torn down to make way for a new pier to accommodate the cruise ships that occasionally call on the island. The heavily encrusted rubble from the old pier remains beneath the newer ones, preserving a fantastic where you can a wide array of marine life.
Sprat Hall Dive
Depth: 25 to 100 feet. Skill Level: Novice Diver.
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What You'll See: A horseshoe-shaped sand bowl in the sloping West Shore patch reef that's surrounded by a rim of
healthy hard and soft corals. The usual Caribbean reef fish suspects--from neon gobies to parrotfish--hang out here,
along with a wide selection of moray eels.
New Pier Dive
If you dive the pier after the large cruise ships have pulled out, keep an eye on the sand flats for old bottles
uncovered by the prop wash-some date back to the 1600s The old Frederiksted Pier was destroyed years ago in a storm,
and
was rebuilt to modern standards to accommodate cruise ships and other large vessels. Luckily,
however, a few pilings from the old pier still exist with incredible communities of soft coral still just
a few meters off shore. New marine life is quickly accumulating and gives you plenty to see, you're
virtually guaranteed to see
seahorses and moray eels. . This is a very easy dive, and an especially
nice night dive!
Coral Reef Wall Dive
The Cane Bay Wall is a shore diver's dream... Where else can you find a wall dive less than a quarter mile from shore?
The Cane Bay Wall starts with a nice coral reef area just 100 yards off the beach leading out to the edge of the drop off
in 35 feet of water. The cuts in the reef along the edge offer a wide variety of structures to play around, exotic fish and
lots of marine life.
Cane Bay Drop-off Dive
Depth: 130-plus feet. Skill Level: Novice to advanced Diver.
What You'll See: A sloping wall headed down at 40 feet from a shallow coral garden of sea whips and brain corals dominated by big gray angels, schools of creole wrasse, black durgon, honeycomb trunkfish and blue chromis.