HAL's scuba excursion in St. Thomas

[Boytjie]

Has anyone done this excursion?

 

I have a couple of questions about it:

 

• Does the catamaran pick you up at the ship in Crown Bay?
  
• How is the diving on the southern coast of the island?
  
• Who runs the excursion?
  

According to the schedule there will only be two ships in port that day: us on the Nieuw Amsterdam and also the Ruby Princess with both docking at Crown Bay and none at WICO (Havensight).

Edited to add: seems like the Celebrity Solstice will also be in St. Thomas at WICO (no website has all the correct info!)

 

I would have preferred to go diving in St. John but for our charters we enjoy diving with the people from our ship.

 

We have a long stay in port (7 AM till 8 PM) so I am thinking of scuba in St. Thomas the morning (supposed to be done by 12:30 PM) and then head to St. John for the afternoon and meet up with friends there.

 

Any comments would be appreciated.

[CalaDragonflyLady]

I did a St Thomas dive via HAL, but it was a while ago and not memorable. At the time, it wasn't on a catamaran.

 

Last year I booked directly with Blue Island Divers and had a great time, no crowd, great crew, and awesome dives! I will be diving with them again later this year.