Caribbean SCUBA Yacht Charters
Caribbean Scuba Yacht Charters are a perfect option for your vacation.
This is the right choice if you are looking for a scuba diving vacation package with a mix of certified divers and non-divers in your group.
SCUBA divers can go diving, and non-divers can go snorkeling or hang out at the beach.
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SCUBA yachts have air compressors onboard, tanks, rental gear, and a Dive Master or Instructor on board.
These crewed charter yachts will steer your charter vacation around getting in some excellent diving. The norm on these boats is one dives per day with one or 2-night dives offered. With two dives per day, you will still be mostly diving, eating, or sleeping, with little time for other activities.
You will have a much more relaxed vacation if you plan on one dive daily and top it out at three to five dives per week.
How SCUBA Yacht Charters work
During a DEDICATED SCUBA yacht charter, the usual routine is to have breakfast and then head to a dive site for a dive. Following the dive, the yacht would typically relocate to a more comfortable spot for an early lunch.
It’s off for another dive after lunch. After this dive, it’s off to a pretty anchorage for afternoon snorkeling, beach time, or wakeboarding. The anchorage may be at a site for an evening night dive.
Usually, the boats stay overnight at the night dive site or dive the following day. If you are certified, many operators are ok with you jumping in for a non-guided, pre-breakfast dive.
Advantages to this type of charter
These diving yacht charters will often dive the less traveled path, giving you better dive sites than the local dive store can. With a week to play, your yacht can work to more remote locations. The time/ distance factor more often restricts the dive stores.
This type of vacation can be tailored on the fly to suit the group.
Your party is the only guest because a SCUBA yacht charter vacation is usually on smaller boats than the dive liveaboard’s. YOU drive the day’s agenda.
Even if you’re not a certified diver, there’s still plenty to enjoy at the dive sites. Snorkelers can explore the underwater world from the surface, while non-divers have the option to take a resort course and experience the thrill of diving for themselves.
These are short education sessions, after which you are set up with dive gear and can go diving. There are restrictions on depth, etc., but it is the perfect way to experience scuba diving.
Guests often go home after a resort course and get their scuba certification for next time.
Many Dive Masters are trained to offer a Resort Course and Dive Instructors.
Educational SCUBA Courses
These boats can also usually offer dive education courses. Most captains would prefer that you do the school work online before you come, then when you get to the boat, you do in water education.
PADI, NAUI, and SSI are all certification programs that yacht charters offer.
Even better is an “open water” referral. Go to your local dive shop and do the school and pool parts of the course, then your instructor signs off on what you have achieved. When you get to your vacation, you only have four dives before you have an open water certification.
Doing a full certification program aboard your yacht is hard to do while the rest of your party is off-water skiing or slurping a rum punch.
If there are already divers in your party, they may have to miss out on some of the instructor’s time for them to do class or pool work.
The four water dives, though, can be combined with scuba dives that the rest are already doing, with just a tiny portion of the instructor’s time. SCUBA Yacht Charters can be anywhere from a two-passenger-only boat to a yacht that takes 20!
What is Rendezvous Diving?
Rendezvous diving is when a local dive company meets your yacht at anchor and picks you up for your dives, and then brings you back.
Allowing everyone else to do other activities (or not!) instead of sitting on a possibly wavy dive site.
Our SCUBA History
We have run a SCUBA Yacht Charter for nearly 20 years in the British Virgin Islands and Caribbean. We know the requirements better than any other charter broker.
We ran many specialized trips, including underwater photography courses led by well-known National Geographic photographers, research trips for marine biologists, and university-based trips.
Let us create a personalized charter for your group, tailored to your specific diving interests. We’re here to cater to your needs and make your diving experience unforgettable.