Just saw the following update from Jost Van Dyke Scuba on Facebook. They reported, “Wanted to let everyone now that JVD Scuba is now taking people out scuba diving and snorkeling, filling scuba tanks, renting gear, etc. The retail shop is not open yet since our devastating Category 5 hurricane wiped out the island , but should be within a couple weeks once our container is delivered. Please come and support us! Irma came, and Irma went, took everything we had, but we are determined to continue diving our magnificent BVI dive sites and taking guests out on the water for the best days of their vacation. We appreciate you and please tell your friends that we are back!.”
Jost Van Dyke Scuba, BVI Eco-Tours, and SAIL-BVI.com were formed with the mission to give each and every tourist the best days of their vacation! They are the only dive center on the island of Jost Van Dyke and have the only day sail yacht on island, and also run powerboat charters, snorkeling and diving charters to the most remote areas of the BVI.
Jost Van Dyke Scuba: +1 284-443-2222 | [email protected]
BVI Traveller was created in September of 2017 to help tourism in the British Virgin Islands recover from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Irma.
To that end, we met our goals. In the past 7 years there have been over 1.2 million visits to the website and over 3 million pages have been viewed. There are over 1,000 pages on the site featuring news posts and detailed listings on all hotels, villas, restaurants and sailing charters located in the BVI. The BVI Government and many business, hotels, villas and sailing charters have all agreed that the site “moved the needle on tourism” after Irma.
The site, however, has run its course. It has served its purpose by bringing visitors and local businesses together to rebuild the tourist industry and it is now time to shut down operations for good.
I want to thank everyone for your help and support.
Chuck Metter
