At Sweet Bottom Dive Center we offer a safe and memorable dive experience with ‘over the top’ customer service. Located at Cane Bay, we are a PADI 5 Star Instructor Development Center specializing in personalized service including guided SCUBA and snorkeling tours, extensive quality training and certifications, and a retail sales center offering a full range of scuba and snorkeling supplies for all levels of water enthusiasts. Dive from shore or by boat, and try the many types of diving St. Croix has to offer including reef, pier and wall diving. At Sweet Bottom we offer a level of safety and integrity you won’t find anywhere else!
About Us
We are a family owned and operated business specializing in personalized scuba diving experiences. We (Mark and Laura Linse) have been involved in the dive industry since 2010, and took over ownership of Sweet Bottom Dive Center in 2015. We prefer to see our divers enjoy every minute of their trip and that’s why we will take care of the assembly, disassembly, briefings, compass headings, locating all the critters, the gear cleanup, and logistics for your dives. All you need is to show up, breathe, and enjoy! Our group sizes are kept small to allow divers of all different skill levels to have the best possible trip and to feel like they are within their own personal limitations. Our scheduling process is done on a first come first serve basis, but we always strive to accommodate all divers as best as we can. We hear weekly that our guests are so pleased that we were able to work around their schedule.
Sweet Bottom Dive Center is proud of its partnerships with the Carambola Beach Resort at Davis Bay and The Landing Beach Resort at Cane Bay. Both locations are part of the famous St. Croix Wall. “We look forward to bringing an awesome diving experience to all of our guests that visit the North Shore.” Stop in and say hello.
Cane Bay Location at The Landing Beach Resort
Our Cane Bay location is right across the street from Cane Bay, one of St. Croix’s most popular shore dives. Our state of the art dive facility offers many features and amenities including an air-conditioned classroom for our IDC and dive certification students. We keep our certification class sizes and Discover Scuba experiences small (much smaller than PADI requirements) in order to allow for one-on-one attention from the instructors, and to ensure quality and safety. The storage room for our scuba rental gear is dehumidified, and the rental gear is replaced every three years, plus we offer a dehumidified storage room for visiting dive guests to store their gear overnight (no packing wet gear for the trip home!)
Davis Bay Location at Carambola Beach Resort
Sweet Bottom Dive Center’s original location at Carambola Beach Resort is now open. With fresh paint, new and improved lighting, new store fixtures and all new rental equipment, Sweet Bottom Dive Center will be ready to serve its guests. Sweet Bottom Dive Center will provide a full concierge dive service at the resort. As guests enter the guard gate, Sweet Bottom staff will be notified and meet them in the parking lot to help them with their dive equipment, bringing it to the dive center via a golf cart. Once the equipment is set up on the equipment bench, the equipment will be transported down the beach to the dive site entry point. When the dive is completed, Sweet Bottom staff will recover the equipment, it will be transported back to the dive center for cleaning and drying. “We want our guests to feel special when they dive with our operation.” Guests are welcome to stay for lunch or some relaxing beach time at beautiful Davis Bay. Sweet Bottom Dive Center at the Carambola Beach Resort will offer its guest all of the same activities that they do at their Cane Bay location. From scuba equipment or snorkel rental, to guided dives and instruction, there is something for everyone.
Services
PADI Beginner Courses
PADI Core SCUBA Certifications
PADI Specialties
Discover SCUBA Diving
Technical Level Courses
Guided Diving (Shore and Boat)
Guided Snorkeling
Equipment Rentals and Sales
Equipment Servicing and Tank Fills
Diving St. Croix
St. Croix is home to miles of healthy reef that blankets the north, west and east sides of the island. There are more than 50 dive sites scattered around the north and west sides of the island. Simply put, the island has very diverse diving. Along the North Shore there is wall diving. The West End has 5 shipwrecks, the pier, and reef diving. Finally, there is Buck Island which offers wonderful snorkeling and a relaxing atmosphere.
Shore diving is very popular on St. Croix due to the accessibility and quality of the dive sites. We offer guided shore dives to a number of different dive sites. Our guided dives have an average group size of 3:1, three divers to one divemaster, to keep the focus on you and your enjoyment. We also try to keep divers of the same skill level grouped together to avoid divers feeling pressured into diving past their limits. These are some of the popular shore dives on St. Croix: Cane Bay, Davis Bay Wall (Carambola House Reef), Northstar, and Frederiksted Pier.
The boat diving on St. Croix is split into West End and North Shore dive sites. On the West End the notable sites are the Butler Bay Shipwrecks, Sprat Hall, Armageddon, BK, and Aquarium. On the North Shore some notable sites are Salt River Canyon, WAPA, Turquoise Bay, Love Shack, and Long Reef. Our boat dives are conducted utilizing St. Croix’s Ultimate Blue Water Adventure’s dive boats. We believe in personalizing our dive experiences, and we offer a personal dive guide when diving off of their boats to keep our small group feel.
