BVI WRECK WEEK - JUNE 12-19, 2010
Promenade, a 65-foot trimaran, will be offering this special dive week to charterers on an individual cabin basis, or as a whole-boat private charter... whichever way gets the first booking.
Here's a press release from Kerry of the trimaran Promenade:
In conjunction with The BVI Tourist Board, your week on Promenade will include 6 nights and 7 days onboard our wide stable air conditioned multi-hull with all buffet meals, cocktails and hors d'oeuvres, wine with dinner, all diving, and other water sports including fishing, waterskiing, kayaking. Package also includes a guided narrated tour of Salt Island, your own personal chart to mark your trip around the islands, a complimentary book on the Chikuzen or RMS RHONE, and a souvenir t-shirt! Cost of package is $2000.00 per person, based on double occupancy per cabin. Discounts are available for a group chartering the entire yacht.If you are unable to take advantage of BVI Wreck Week (June 12-19, 2010), Promenade is offering a cabin cruise April 19-25, 2010. Click HERE for details. PLUS, they have other weeks available in the season for "normal" private charters (i.e., not cabin bookings).Our style of diving on Promenade is casual. If you are a photographer, please feel free to go at your own pace. If you want a divemaster to lead you, follow our crew member, if you prefer diving by yourself after a thorough briefing on the site, go ahead. IF you want to get up very early in the morning and jump in the water (as we tend to anchor over dive sites because of night dives this week) feel free to (as long as a crew member knows that you are in the water).
SAMPLE ITINERARY FOR BVI WRECK WEEK
This is a sample itinerary ONLY. We have two wrecks, the Parametta and the ROCUS on Anegada Reef, that if the weather conditions allow, we will be going out to dive. We do however, guarantee to hit as many wrecks as we can in the time as we can and to do unlimited diving.
- Day 1, Saturday 12 June 2010: Board Promenade 12 noon. Promenade will welcome you with a light lunch before sailing over to the wreck of the FEARLESS outside Great Harbor on Peter Island to do our first wreck dive. We will anchor for the evening at Little Harbor on Peter Island.
Day 2: We will dive Carrot Rock on the outside of Peter Island after breakfast, one of our favorite dive sites, with pinnacles reaching from 70 feet up to the surface. Lunch will be at White Bay at Peter Island, with time for a beach excursion or snorkeling trip before we dive “Brown Pants” on the outside of Norman Island, or Santa Monica Rock, so named for the Santa Monica that hit the pinnacles here on April 29th, 1783 and subsequently sank at Water Creek on St John. We will anchor for the night at Privateer Bay on Norman Island. Also known as the Caves at Treasure Point and the setting of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island.
- Day 3: After a snorkel before breakfast with all the Glassy Eyed Sweepers in the caves, we will take a short hop over to the Indians, so named as they look like an Indians feathered headdress from a distance, where we will do a dive before sailing up for lunch at Salt Island. After hearing the history of the wreck of the Rhone we will dive the Rhone in the afternoon, and then after dinner SCUBA to watch the turtles sleeping underneath the wreck and the lobsters and crabs wandering around. This is bar none, not only the Best Wreck dive in the Caribbean, but also in the top 5 dives of the world. We will anchor overnight on Salt Island.
Day 4: Up and in the water early for a dive before breakfast before anyone else has a chance to disturb the wreck, we will then sail, weather permitting, out to the wreck of the CHIKUZEN, our second most famous wreck. We will dive the Chikuzen before lunch and again, after lunch before taking a leisurely sunset sail into Muskmelon Bay on Guana Island, one of our favorite deserted anchorages.
- Day 5: After a breakfast of watching the pelicans circling while they feed on the billions of bait fish in this bay, we will go around to the outside to dive Grand Central Station. Grand Central Station is so named for the many fish that converge around here, and it is capped up by a spectacular large cave that goes through the island at about 60 feet. We will then sail over to Cooper Island and dive the wreck of the Beata after lunch. We will stay overnight at Haulover Bay there and fit in another night dive.
- Day 6: We have two wrecks on our diving agenda today, the Inganess and the Marie L and the Pat, along with spectacular snorkeling and beachcombing before making our way around to Salt anchorage for our guided and narrated tour of the island, which is a very important part of the RMS Rhone’s history! We will then have a wrap up barbecue that evening on Salt Island!
- Day 7, Saturday 19 June 2010: Sadly, it is time to sail back to Road Town in the morning to disembark and leave paradise, with great memories.
PACKAGE:
Accommodation with Yacht Promenade Liveaboard
- 6 nights, 7 days including all food and beverages (wine with dinner, cocktails, unlimited beer and soda)
- Unlimited diving featuring the wrecks of the BVI, including a minimum of 3 dives on the wreck of the RMS Rhone (including 1 night dive)
- Dive Anegada (weather permitting), including The Chikuzen and The Rocus
- Special souvenir T-shirt
- Souvenir Chart to map your week
- Dive Book on the Chikuzen or RMS Rhone
- Wrap-up tour of Salt Island
- $4000.00 based on 2 people sharing a cabin.
Contact Paradise Connections Yacht Charters to book Promenade
View Promenade's online brochure
Visit our website: www.ParadiseConnections.com
View Promenade's online brochure
Visit our website: www.ParadiseConnections.com