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Dive with Experience! St. Croix's original PADI 5 STAR dive training facility.
About Dive Experience
| Located at 1111 Strand Street, Downtown Christiansted, Dive Experience opened
its doors November 1983. They became St. Croix's first PADI 5 Star IDC facility.
We offer dive training from Discover SCUBA to Open Water SCUBA Instructor.
Dive Experience is committed to conservation and ecotourism. We are involved with community services such as coastal cleanups. We teach the kids from the lower income housing projects to dive for free. Involved with St. Croix Environmental Association giving tours of the mangroves for school groups. Presently working on a better sewage systems for the islands. Dive Experience spearheaded the mooring system on St. Croix with the help of ICE Island Conservation Effort and a few other St. Croix dive operators. |
 Awards * DEMA - Best Marketing idea 1988 * Best Dive Operator - St. Croix Hotel Association * Best Dive Operator - Virgin Island Daily News * Best Mares Dealer in the caribbean |
Our Staff - "Experience" says it all
Michelle Pugh, Owner, Master Scuba Diver Instructor
Michelle took her first dive in Malibu California at the age of 16. From that time on, diving has been her life. In 1977 she moved to the island of St. Croix to teach diving for 3 months, she had not left the island yet.
In 1989 she spearheaded “Project Anchors Away”, a 75 mooring buoy system surrounding St. Croix to protect the coral reefs from anchor damage. Board member, St. Croix Fisheries Advisory, since the late 80s, which advises the commissioner of Planning and Natural Resources ont fish and game regulations. Board member for the East End Marine Park. In 1997 Michelle was asked to teach at the Moscow Sea School in Moscow Russia. She started a recreational dive center and trained open water divers as well as instructors.
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  In 2004 Michelle was inducted in the Woman Divers Hall of Fame, being the first American woman to teach diving in Russia, diving with the killer whales and establishing the mooring system on St. Croix. |
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1978 she was the first woman photographer to film killer whales underwater in
the wilds in Canada. See the book A Whale called Killer, by Eric Hoyt.
In 1983 she started her own dive company, Dive Experience Inc. This is the
oldest originally owned dive business on St. Croix. She was the first dive
operator on St. Croix to achieve the PADI 5 Star IDC rating.
Barbara DeClerque - IDC Staff instructor and Course Director
Barbara is the IDC instructor for Dive Experience.. Barbara has been training
divers for 22 years and instructors for more than 10 years. She teaches all diver
level PADI courses and many specialties, including: Deep, Wreck, Naturalist,
Night, Navigation, Search and Recovery, UW Photography, Coral Reef Ecology, Enriched
Air Nitrox, SCR Rebreather, Resort Operations, Emergency First Response. Emergency
First Response Care for Children. Barbara also teaches DAN emergency courses.
See our IDC
training page for dates
and information about her classes.
All of the staff at Dive Experience are PADI instructors or Divemasters. Our most seasoned instructor has been teaching for more than 25 years!
Our Boat
Our custom dive boat is a Delta 28, built for us by Custom dive boats in Cape Canaveral, Florida. It is a fast comfortable boat that is licensed for 17 total. We usually have 2 crew and up to 14 divers. We cater to smaller groups. We have three coast guard licensed captains.
Our Store
Located at 111 Strand Street - one block from the boardwalk . Find diving, snorkeling, T-shirts and souvenirs. Our major lines are Aqua Lung, SeaQuest and Mares.
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Dive Experience |
| PO Box 4254 -- 1111 Strand Street Christiansted, St Croix USVI 00822 |
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