Blue Salt Divers, Home of Dive ExperienceDive center

Blue Salt Divers, Home of Dive Experience runs a PADI 5 Star center out of the King Christian Hotel on the Christiansted waterfront in St. Croix. The 2,000-square-foot facility has a dock right outside, a retail shop and boutique rooms upstairs, so a dive trip can happen without ever leaving the building. It has recently passed to new owner-operators who kept the shop's name and spirit.

The PADI instructors teach more than 40 specialties, from wreck and deep diving to buoyancy and underwater photography. The center also offers technical diving through PADI TecRec, adaptive diving, Emergency First Response and conservation programs. It trains instructors as a PADI IDC center, and teaches in English and Spanish.