Check out our newest offering from Dive BVI:

Guided Audio Tours while diving, it’s fun and very exciting.  We hope you’ll give it a try the next time you’re here!

Here’s some exciting news for our fans, friends and family of Dive BVI:

http://www.divenewswire.com/NewsITems.aspx?newsID=11307

Doug McNeese (CEO of SSI – Scuba Schools International) visited our facilities in early November and met with our staff.  He’s a big fan of diving in the BVI and is really excited about our new partnership.  So are we!  This agreement is the first of its kind and we are proud of our team for making this happen.  We look forward to bringing all of the new SSI diving, snorkeling, and freediving programs online in early 2011.

Dive BVI is proud to announce 2 new trips for the winter season.  Check out our new programs under the Trips link on the Home page at www.divebvi.com. We look forward to seeing all of our old friends and meeting some new ones!

Andrew adds to his totals

The Dive BVI team has been busy this month catching lionfish.  We’ve managed to remove 7 in the past 2 weeks.  Please continue to use the markers if you sight one and get an accurate description of location.  We have markers available at all 3 of our locations if you are out.

Dive BVI is having a Spectacular September Storewide Sale.  Starting Thursday, Sept. 23 and going through Saturday, Sept. 25 at our Spanish Town location in Virgin Gorda Yacht Harbour.  Everything is on sale – watches, sunglasses, snorkel/scuba gear, clothing and more!  Be sure to come by and see what we’ve got before it’s gone!!!

Lionfish at Wreck Alley

While out enjoying a great dive at Wreck Alley, Cooper Island today, Jeff came across a lionfish near the bottom of the reef wall. He swam back to Sea Monkey, got the lionfish capture kit and then back down to see what he could do. After spending about 5 minutes letting the fish get used to the nets, he slipped one over the top and one underneath. The fish was startled by the top net and swam right into the one on the bottom! Success!

UPDATE:  On Friday, Andrew and Jeff managed to snag the other lionfish that was seen on the wrecks.  Good job guys!

All Dive BVI staff, shops and boats are safe. We experienced 100 mph winds on Virgin Gorda for a while on Monday afternoon. There are a lot of trees down and some minor roof damage to homes. The power went off on Sunday night and we don’t know when it will be back. So far, no serious injuries have been reported. We would like to thank everyone for their well wishes, thoughts and prayers as we went through a lot yesterday.

All Dive BVI locations will be closed on Mon/Tues for the passage of Hurricane Earl. We’ll be open again on Wed but boats will still be in the boatyard. No diving until Thursday at the earliest, but we’ll have to see what the next system, potentially Fiona, does later in the week. Thank you for your support!

We’ve got a few videos up already and hope to keep adding new ones all during the season.  Hope you enjoy!

Be sure to visit us at http://www.youtube.com/divebviltd for more!

We had 19 divers from the US come down to participate in our 2nd Wreck Week event.  These divers dove on 11 of our fantastic wrecks and saw some amazing wildlife.  There were spotted eagle rays, sharks, turtles and loads of great macro critters to be found.  The week also included some great parties…opening night at Top of The Baths, beach party at Cooper Island, and a Jumbies party in Leverick Bay to close out the week.  Our main sponsor, Scubapro, assisted the event by providing a full regulator set with computer to the winner of our Wreck Week Jeopardy contest.  We really enjoyed getting to make some new dive buddies and are already looking forward to next year’s event.  Check out our Facebook page for photos (www.facebook.com/divebvi) Wreck Week 2010 album!