Snuba-what a great experience! - Cruise Line Fans: Cruise Forum, Reviews and Chat From Real Cruisers

Big4Chaps · 09-12-2005, 05:25 PM

We just returned from St. Thomas & booked a snuba adventure thru www.visnuba.com & not thru the cruise ship (wasn't available). It was an awesome experience! The guide, Frank, is very good at explaining & taking you down to a depth of 20 feet very slowly, allowing you to get used to it. We did not have a helmet on like some people have reported. We wore a snorkel mask & fins. The breathing apparatis is similair to what scuba uses, except our air tank was in a small raft that we pulled along with us. This company will also meet you at St. John's if you want to snuba there. It was such a awesome experience!

bs_outwest · 09-12-2005, 05:35 PM

Thanks for the info, I have wanted to try this for some time and will most likely do on our Nov cruise......

corina27 · 09-12-2005, 05:44 PM

Snuba does look like a lot of fun!

Big4Chaps · 09-12-2005, 05:49 PM

Frank & his wife Tammy own this business in St. John/St. Thomas. It is called Virgin Island Snuba or VI Snuba. I had a panic attack that I didn't think I could do this once we got in the water & started staying below the surface for a while. Frank took so much time teaching us what to do & allowing us to work thru the urge to surface for "real air". He taught us so much about how to "hover", how to pop our ears, & how to clear our masks. He "inched" us down the ocean until we were comfortable to swim out to the reef. There was only 6 of us in our group. So, he keeps the groups small. And we stayed down for 35 minutes. That particular day there wasn't much fish, but we did see a small flounder, & found a sand dollar, & some of the snappers & striped fish that you see when you snorkel. It was such a great experience! The tour took more than 35 minutes because he took so much time teaching us, & getting the proper equipment for each one of us.