Saint Lucia - Diving in the Caribbean with Scuba Steve's Diving (St. Lucia)

Like Barbados, St. Lucia was not new territory for us. We also visited this island on our Carnival tour two years ago as part of our world tour. Since we had already undertaken the classic island tour with pitons, sulfur springs etc., we wanted to get to know the underwater world this time.

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The port info of the AIDAdiva in St. Lucia

location: Pier Pointe Seraphine 1
Lying time: 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
All on board: 6.30 pm
AIDA Hafeninfo St. Lucia: Download

The diving school Scuba Steve’s Diving

From home we searched online for a good diving school on St. Lucia and came across Scuba Steve’s Diving, which offer special offers for snorkeling and diving cruise guests. After a nice mail contact with the dive center, we have booked a diving trip with two dives. The pick-up from the cruise ship was even included – really very comfortable. At 9.30 a.m. we were picked up from the pier, where the water taxis usually leave for Castries, St. Lucia’s capital.

Welcome to St. Lucia

The Cruise Ship Terminal in Castries

The small pier at Cruise Terminal

The dive boat of Scuba Steve's Diving

A diving instructor was already waiting for us and a short time later the dive boat came. To our surprise we were again the only divers. On the boat were three taster divers from a resort, who were supposed to go underwater with a separate diving instructor. Cool, so another dive with private diving instructor only for both of us 🙂

Our dive sites in St. Kitts

The first dive at Anse Cochon (North)

The journey to our first dive site took about 20 minutes in a southerly direction. Our first dive site Anse Cochon (North) is located in the Marine Park of St. Lucia, for which you need a diving permit. Luckily, that was already in the diving package we had booked through the diving center – just like the complete equipment.

After we had all prepared ourselves, we were able to start. Our entry into the water was on a grassy ground at a depth of about 5 meters. As soon as we were on the road for a minute, we saw a scorpion fish in the seagrass, which could not prove its perfect camouflage properties quite so optimally here in the grass. A few meters further on, there were two beautiful flounders on the ground, which started to move as we got closer. Really fascinating animals.

Unfortunately, the view was not quite so great under water. You couldn’t really look that far. Nevertheless, we have also seen some moray eels, firefish as well as a pointed-tailed snake eel, which has slowly meandered along the corals.

A flounder

Corals in St. Lucia

A pointed-tailed snake eel

Firefish and sea urchins

A moray eels

A Lobster

After about 45 minutes we went up again. To be honest, it slowly became cold under water as we only had a short diving suit. We were just right that we were able to warm up a bit in the sun during the surface break on the boat.

The second dive at Virgins Cove

The second dive site Virgins Cove was right next to it, so the boat trip took only about two minutes. Our instructor jumped briefly into the water to test the direction of the current, but then gave the green signal. Even when we jumped into the water, we saw that the visibility is unfortunately very poor. Nevertheless, we have seen some things, such as moray eels, lobsters, cleaning shrimps and firefish. As the current became stronger over time and visibility became increasingly poor, we got out of the water after 40 minutes and drove back to the ship, where we arrived around 2 p.m.

The underwater world of St. Lucia

Coral formation

A moray eels

A cleaning shrimp

The video of our two dives on St. Lucia

Here is the little video of our two dives on St. Lucia.

This was our 8th island on the AIDAdiva cruise. Tomorrow we continue to Dominica 🙂

Übersicht unserer AIDA-Reiseberichte in der Karibik

Liest man die Liste der Inseln, die die AIDA auf der Route Karibische Inseln 1 ansteuert, denkt man kurzzeitig, es wäre ein Traum: Dominikanische Republik, Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire, Grenada, St. Vincent & die Grenadinen, Barbados, St. Lucia, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Antigua. Elf Inseln in 14 Tagen anzusteuern ist schon eine Hausnummer. Aber das war auch der Grund für uns, diese Route zu wählen. Eine Kreuzfahrt ist wie prädestiniert dafür, die Karibik mit ihren mehreren tausenden Trauminseln auf eine entspannte Art und Weise kennenzulernen. Hier findet Ihr alle Reiseberichte unserer 14-tägigen Karibikkreuzfahrt mit AIDAdiva.