Dive Review of Cane Bay Divers/Cane Bay Reef Club in
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Cane Bay Divers/Cane Bay Reef Club, Jun, 2002, by James McMeisn, WA, USA . Report 65.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$	N/A
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	Cane Bay Reef Club is a quaint small facility with a medium sized swimming pool. A/C in most of the rooms and rooms are large with cable TV's, refrigerator and full cooking facilities. On our arrival the owner took us to a local supermarket and we stocked up on food for the week as well as drinks. Restaurant on site serves good food and has several special nights, one is lobster night for under $20 and one night is Mexican night where you have a buffet that all you can eat for under $8. Cane Bay dive shops is about a 15min walk from the hotel. Dive boat is a 10' inflatable, max 4 divers, diveguide & boat captian. Entry is accomplished by unzipping the deck in the bow, sitting with legs through the hole, they put your bc on and then you do a forward roll under the boat. Looks strange but it works great. Since most of the dive sites are within 10-15mins you don't spend to much time on it. Of course you go back in between dives to get fresh tanks. 3 boat dives a day plus they have shore diving ($5 a tank) and it is about a 300 yard swim out to the reef but well worth it. One complaint, on one dive we initially planned to drift and diveguide was going to drag a float along, after arrival at the site, diveguide checked the water said there was a current going in the direction of the dive so had the boat go to next mooring to await us instead of following us plus he didn't take the float. Of course half way through the dive a strong current came up in the opposite direction! Two divers got very low on air and by the time my wife and I were getting low the diveguide was so far ahead we couldn't get his attention. We gathered up on of the other divers how was down to 300 and did our safety stop and then went to surface, of course the boat was several hundered yards from us. Later I asked the diveguide why he hadn't stopped the dive after runing into the current and the fact that he'd actually started swimming faster agains the current. His response "I wanted to get to where the boat was anchored becuase I knew you would be getting low on air, so I figured if we went faster, we'd get there quicker!" Other then that the diving was very good here and corals are very healthy with lots of small critters. On our last dive before leaving, my wife and I were diving in 60' of water when a 4.0 earthquake hit on St. Thomas across the water from us. An unusal experiance.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	[Unspecified]
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, dry	Seas	calm
Water Temp	83-85°F / 28-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness	0
Water Visibility	50-100 Ft/ 15-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	3 minute safety stop
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	1 or 2
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	Due to the size of the dive boat -10', uses a cooler for storage of camera gear but since boat is limited to 4 divers, not a problem.

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Dive Review of Cane Bay Divers/Cane Bay Reef Club in Virgin Islands/St. Croix

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Dive Review of Cane Bay Divers/Cane Bay Reef Club in
Virgin Islands/St. Croix