Water Activities

Scuba Diving packages are available.

Just remember to bring your dive mask and suntan lotion!.  PADi licenced guide, complete snorkeling gear and kayaks!  

Snorkeling in the Caribbean
Outnaboat World Yacht Charters
SNORKELING in the  Tropics
Its hard to think of travelors not taking full advantage of the warm water (almost the same temperature as your body), crystal clear tropical Caribbean Sea.  It is inviting you to come-on-in and have fun. Your luxury yacht vacations provide the best way to get 100 percent out of your charter. This adventure is far too important for you to leave it to chance.,  or return home after a less than perfect vacation.  So insist on experience, safety, referals,  You select the best Charter Yacht & professional crew for the job.
Be sure to put on sun screen before entering the water as the water tends to hide sunburns and therefore could leave you with a false sense of security. There are very little dangers for the wise snorkeler: Number one have your captain snorkel with you everytime you venture into the water. The fire coral is not as big a problem as it is made out to be. If you touch it with your tummy, back or hands it will burn for a little while and stops. Jelly fish are around 2-3 days per year and their sting is not ver big. Smaller jelly fish have even a smaller sting; both were never a problem just swim around them. I never saw the 'bad' jelly fish in 5 years of snorkelling.

Baracudas: these proud fish looks as if they are targeting you when they simply look at you, so keep away from Baracuda. In 5 consecutive years of living there, baracudas were never a problem, but they are something not to take lightly.

Sting Rays have never been any issue at all, they are like turtles, shy and unasuming and not to be fed by humans. Spiney Blow fish are also timid and shy.

Possibly the biggest danger for Vacationers are the spiny Black Urchin, when touched their spins shoot into your flesh. One remedy is to place your hands in milk for a while. These barbs are very soft and cannot be pulled out with a needle, so your body simply has to work them out of your hand as best as possible. Neosporin and elastoplast to cover the wound is all you can do and the pain remains for a very long time. Be careful of these black Urchins. In 5 years we only had one lady who we told not to walk into the balck urchin patch and she did. Snorkeling at night, rather not. Now that these minor dangers are noted, let's go and have fun on board all your luxury yachts.

One of the world’s safest barrier reefs to snorkel is Couquelan Reef, 200 yards east of the Bitter End Yacht Club, and yet few people venture here to snorkel. Yes they snorkel on the inside of this barrier reef but it is the outside of this barrier reef which are alive with rainbow colored fish, sponges, soft and hard coral. Coral faces the deep blue sea because the nutrients (food) come from that direction. So this is the “live” side of a barrier reef and a luxury yacht can drop anchor very close.

The Virgin Islands only have 14-16 inches of tide change between spring lows and spring high tides. This means very little undertow, if any, no large tracts of water moving in and out. This means swimming here is very safe indeed. The British Virgin Islands is possibly the world's safest location to swim/Scuba and snorkel in deep water.

Here is what you will see on the “live” side of this barrier reef, a virtual wall stretching up from 5 feet to 45 feet. Visibility is 70 feet in all directions teeming with rainbow colored fish, pastel colored corals and sponges, you immediately know why it is called a barrier reef. With this visibility in all directions, you can see there are NO DANGERS (sharks). Your comfort level rises, and you settle down to exploring mother nature at her very best

 WHAT YOU WILL SEE -during your Caribbean yacht charters 
Our experience and training helps us observe a small herd of red seahorse, the male holding and protecting his young. A lone sunfish 1 foot in diameter keeps his distance from your group, with his beady eye locked on you humans. A soft purple fan coral holds a flamingo tongue. Touch the mantle and this pretty colored leopard spoted mantle retracts to show a white shell. A large turtle swims casually past in the far distance. In the distance, a spotted eagle-nosed ray digs his nose into the soft sand, creating a furrow behind while touching under the sand for a fresh live angel shell to eat. His mate is close by, doing the same, tails stretched out in a long line 20 feet behind them.

Captain Connor may point out a slipper lobster, as well as those large Caribbean spiny lobsters. These are nocturnal but can be seen during the day. Butterfly fish and parrot fish go about their daily routines, giving humans a second glance. Pygmy conch and conch can be seen on the seabed as the odd sand dollar glistens in the bright sunlight. A section of the barrier reef drops to a forest of staghorn coral—real pretty!

Children snorkel all day if you let them, the life they see under water is so very different from what they have ever dreamed of. Underwater to most children is an unknown world which they wish to explore to the hilt. This is good clean fun for them, so encourage it.

Although TV's are always requested on board all charter yachts, they are seldom used. Eevery night without fail the children enjoy their dinner and go to bed, knocked out from their action packed day and the clean fresh air taken into their bodies. I have never heard of any child being bored on board a private Virgin Island yacht charter. Adults are also mesmerized by the way life goes on and off under water and the crewed charter yacht is the very best way to enjoy this BVI vacation. The trained eye picks up far more than the novice, but it is wonderful to be a novice in underwater wonderland, provided you know you are very safe indeed.