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Welcome to The Scuba Shop
PADI Dive Center, Dive Equipment Sales & Service, Hydrostatic Retest
Center, Watersports and Beach
Boutique - everything for fun on, in and under the water.
Whether you visit The Scuba Shop from a Charter or Private
Yacht, Resort, Private Residence or Cruise Ship, you will find, besides a
shop full of goodies, invaluable information on Scuba Diving,
Snorkeling, Sailing, Water Sports and Mermaiding on and around the
island of St Maarten / St Martin.
From our shop in Simpson Bay we serve the Caribbean. |
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FREE
Snorkel GuideSpend the day or spend the week exploring - our St Maarten / St Martin
Snorkel Guide will
take you around the island with great details on all the
best snorkeling spots. It is available FREE from our
Simpson Bay location - stop in and pick up your copy
today.
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Go SCUBA Diving with us, start a PADI Dive
Course or book a Snorkel Trip
DISCOVER SCUBA: if you like
to snorkel, but have not yet tried SCUBA diving we recommend a
Discover Scuba Dive. You
learn the basics of diving in our pool and then make your first ever
ocean SCUBA Dive!
PADI SCUBA COURSES: ready to become a Scuba Diver? The PADI Open Water
Diver certification course can be done in as little as 3 days - and
this includes 4 amazing ocean Scuba dives. We offer a variety of
courses for the recreational diver and professional certifications
to PADI Dive Master level.
DIVE TRIPS: already a Certified Scuba diver? We
offer bespoke dive trips with our Instructors or we can book your Scuba
dives leaving from a variety of locations on the island - let us
know where you are staying and how you like to dive.
CITIZEN SCIENCE: participate in scientific research with us that
aims to address real-world problems.
SNORKEL TRIPS: from dedicated
Snorkel trips to combination Boat/Beach/Fun/Sun/Swim Snorkel trips
we can book your snorkel trip based on what you would like to do.
Mermaids of SXM
 Mermaid diving is a world with one foot in reality and the other in
fantasy. The PADI Mermaid Program is designed for non-divers and
divers alike, from as young as 7 years old. Although this experience
shares techniques and equipment used in scuba and freediving,
mermaid diving (or 'mermaiding') is its own form of diving.
CLICK HERE for more information!
10th Annual Underwater Easter Egg Hunt
 Easter
Monday 1st April 2024 will be our 10th Annual Underwater Easter Egg
Hunt. Our Easter Bunnies are getting everything ready and gathering
prizes for another eggcellent event which is a fundraiser for the Nature
Foundation Sint Maarten, made possible by the support of Divi Little Bay
Beach Resort, Windward Roads and all of our wonderful prize sponsors. Toddlers to
grandparents are welcome.Click
Here for Details
Photo albums
of past Underwater Easter Egg Hunts are posted to our facebook page:
www.facebook.com/thesubashopSXM
Dive Trip to SABA - Single Day or 3 Day Weekend
Discover SABA with 3 Days • 2 Nights • Up to 9 Dives!
Wall dives, pinnacle dives, hot springs, amazing marine life – all
within reach.
A weekend in Saba gives you up to 9 dives and still plenty of time
to relax and enjoy this island gem.
It is also possible to go for just a Single Day by Ferry for 2 x
Dives or by plane for 3 x Dives.
CLICK HERE for more information! |
Snorkel & Scuba Gear •
Sales, Rental, ServiceIf you
are looking to
Buy New Snorkel or Scuba
Gear, The Scuba Shop
is definitely the
place to do it. Scubapro, Mares, Sherwood, AquaLung,
Sealife, Princeton Tec, Brownie's, Bauer
and many other brands, we offer
great, international names at
very competitive prices. As
Authorized Dealers for
the brands we sell, all
international warranties are
valid.
New
to snorkeling or diving - our staff are
all scuba divers and are on hand
to help you choose the gear that
is right for you.
Not
ready to purchase your own
snorkel set? RENT quality masks,
snorkels and fins - just $10 per
day or $30 per week.
Click
here to browse and shop - What
We Sell
Water Sports & Beach Stuff
For fun on top of the water,
we stock a full range of
OBRIEN Wakeboards, Water
Skis, Towables and Accessories.
We also stock a range of Bodyboards, Skimboards
and Beach Toys as well as Beach
Chairs, easy to carry and set up
Neso shade Tents and a great
line of Coolers and Bags.
Feel the need for speed?
Underwater Scooters from
SEABOB
offer hours of fun.
SCUBA
Equipment & Cylinder Service
We stock a large selection of
spare parts to keep your dive
equipment in good order -
mouthpieces, LP, HP and BCD QD
hose, BCD integrated weight
pockets, console depth and
pressure modules to name just a
few.We are a factory
authorized service center for
repair and annual service of:
Scubapro, Mares, AquaLung and
Sherwood.
Additionally we have a USA DOT
certified Hydrostatic Test
Facility on site:
Caribbean Scuba Services B.V. - RIN N348. More
Than Just a Dive Shop
In our Dive & Beach Boutique you can also
find men, women and children's
swim and sportswear, water
sports equipment, underwater
lights and cameras and toys,
chairs, shade tents and cooler
bags for a day at the
beach.
Swim and Sportswear
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To keep
you looking good both in and out
the water we have a great
selection of Sports and Swim
wear
for men and women (and a small
selection for children). |
Full Face Snorkeling
Mask
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NOW
IN STOCK:
Full Face
Snorkeling Mask
Click here for more information.
RENT IT!
$20 per Day
$60 per Week
(Includes Fins)
Like it?
Buy it - and get
refunded your rental! |
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Authorized SEABOB
Dealer & Service Station
CARIBBEAN
Sales • Service
Rental
 
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Let's Go Diving!
The waters of St. Maarten / St. Martin and the surrounding islands offer
very interesting and varied scuba diving at moderate depths, which means
easy and relaxed diving and snorkeling. Besides numerous varieties of
reef fish, you are likely to see Great Barracudas, Tarpon, Flying
Gurnard, Moray Eels, Snake Eels (there are no sea snakes in the
Caribbean), Stingrays, Spotted Eagle Rays, Sharks - both
Nurse and Reef, Turtles, Lobster, and a lot of macro critters. There are
numerous well established coral reef systems with a wide variety of
beautiful soft and hard corals in pristine condition.
Dive / Sail Vacations!
For those of you who love to sail, St. Maarten / St. Martin is the ideal
destination for a Sail / Dive vacation. St. Maarten / St. Martin is home
to the major yacht charter companies, among them, Sunsail, The
Moorings, Horizon Yacht Charter and Dream Yacht Charter. We offer a
FREE guide to Scuba Diving from Your Yacht in the
Waters of St. Maarten / St. Martin and the Surrounding Islands which
gives general information and details on over 14 great dive sites
located just a short, safe dinghy ride from the best yacht anchorages. |
Dive Trips Around St. Maarten
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 For a morning 2 tank dive - St Maarten offers
some really great diving along the South coast. With a
combination of reefs and wrecks there is something for everyone.
Fish life is varied and quite prolific and the shark, turtle and
stingray population is abundant – especially the sharks in the
Man of War Shoal Marine Park area. Dives are generally kept to
45 minutes to minimize the surface interval. With an average
depth of 55ft and very little current our sites are considered
“easy profile”; however these dive sites are all ¼ to ¾ miles
off the coast and as such are considered “open ocean” dive
sites.
Dive sites are decided on the morning of the dive as they are
weather dependent, and the site chosen may change on the way out
if another dive boat is already on that mooring. Generally the
dive boat tries to take you to the best site for the day – after
all the dive masters want to have a good dive too :)
 For an afternoon single tank dive - While the dive shops
sometimes schedule a single dive to the above sites, most single
tank dive trips, Discover Scuba and training dives will often be
to Little Bay. This dive site is a nice, shallow, inshore dive
site that all the dive shops use for training. Surface
conditions are always calm. Visibility, averaging 40 to 50ft, is
not as good as the off shore dive sites. While this dive site
does have a diverse fish population, and can have turtles and
even spotted eagle rays, it does not have the sharks and larger
fish and coral population you will find on the deeper sites.
Please
click
here to Email for more information. |
Dive
Student Store Discounts!
No matter who you are diving
with, whether you are just starting
out with your Open Water Course
or are progressing to the
Professional Level, The Scuba
Shop welcomes you into the sport
of diving with great Dive
Student Store Discounts - be
sure to let us know what course
you are doing
and what plans you have for your
dive future and we can suggest
the perfect gear for you.
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