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St. Croix Ultimate Bluewater Adventures/The Company House hotel. : "Fish-watching week in St. Croix.", Nov, 2021, by Mary Adams, MD, US ( Sr. Contributor 27 reports with 9 Helpful votes). Report 11933.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	This was a REEF fish-ID expedition. There were about a dozen divers, all with our checklists. The flights from DC to Christiansted and back were just fine. The Company House Hotel was beautiful, but it had stairs everywhere. The outfitter, St Croix Ultimate Bluewater Adventures, came to the hotel, tagged all of our gear with our names, then hauled it to their dive shop, and loaded it onto the boat each morning. Excellent service! We were on our own for food. There are lovely little restaurants in downtown Christiansted, but it always takes a day or 3 to find them. Christiansted is terrible for pedestrians, there are almost no sidewalks outside downtown. The boat was spacious and comfortable, with easy giant-stride entry and a good ladder. We dived 11 different dive sites, two of them twice. There were armies of blackbar soldier fish everywhere. I saw two octopus. The last 2 days we dived the Fredericksted Pier, which was VERY interesting. I saw my first gold-spotted snake eel. There was a seahorse, likely more of them, a scorpion fish, eyed flounder, a southern stingray, greater soap fish, and a few cuttlefish. Overall, I think the reef was moderately healthy. I expected huge schools of grunts and snappers and did not see them. I suspect the locals catch and eat them. We needed to Covid test before flying home to the mainland US, because Christiansted Airport is an “open port” (I did not look up what that means). I do recommend the destination, the outfitter, and the hotel.
Websites	St. Croix Ultimate Bluewater Adventures The Company House hotel.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Cuba, Bonaire, Cozumel, Florida Keys, Clearwater FL, Bimini, Saba-St. Eustatius, Roatan, Kona, North Carolina, Flower Garden Banks, Caymans, Palau, Chuuk, Jupiter Florida, Turks and Caicos, Revillagigedo.
Closest Airport	Christiansted STT	Getting There	Reagan National Airport (DCA) to STT via MIA on American Airlines. Expensive ($720) but good flights.
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm
Water Temp	85-86°F / 29-30°C	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	25-75 Ft/ 8-23 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	None.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 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	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	We saw a lot of tiny fish and eels and shrimps. If you are a small-critter photographer, the opportunities are good.

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Dive Review of St. Croix Ultimate Bluewater Adventures/The Company House hotel. in Virgin Islands/St. Croix

St. Croix Ultimate Bluewater Adventures/The Company House hotel. : "Fish-watching week in St. Croix.", Nov, 2021,

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Dive Review of St. Croix Ultimate Bluewater Adventures/The Company House hotel. in
Virgin Islands/St. Croix