🎉📸 Celebrate 50 Years of Dive BVI! 📸🎉

We’re turning the big 5-0, and what better way to mark the occasion than by celebrating the beauty beneath the waves?

💦 Dive BVI 50th Anniversary Underwater Photo Contest 💦

Show us your best shot taken while diving with us! From colorful reefs to curious creatures, we want to see the magic you’ve captured below the surface.

🏆 Prize: $100 cash for the winning photo!
📅 Contest runs through October 30th.
📍 Winners will be announced right here on our page!

👉 How to enter:
1. Post your underwater photo on Instagram or Facebook.
2. Tag @DiveBVI and use #DiveBVI50.
3. Make sure your profile/post is public so we can see it!

Let’s dive back through 50 years of memories — and create some new ones together. 💙

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We agree! Water IS essential to us and we need to be in it!

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Avast! You scurvy dogs!
It’s Talk Like A Pirate Day!

International Talk Like a Pirate Day is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur and Mark Summers of Albany, Oregon, who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate (that is, in English with a stereotypical West Country accent). 

In English-speaking popular culture, the modern pirate stereotype owes its attributes mostly to the imagined tradition of the 18th-century Caribbean pirate sailing off the Spanish Main and to such celebrated 20th-century depictions as Captain Hook and his crew in the theatrical and film versions of J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, Robert Newton’s portrayal of Long John Silver in the 1950 film adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel Treasure Island, and various adaptations of the Middle Eastern pirate, Sinbad the Sailor. In these and countless other books, films, and legends, pirates are portrayed as “swashbucklers” and “plunderers”. They are shown on ships, often wearing eyepatches or peg legs, having a parrot perched on their shoulder, speaking in a West Country accent, and saying phrases like “Arr, matey” and “Avast, me hearty”. Pirates have retained their image through pirate-themed tourist attractions, film, toys, books and plays.

So, in honor of today, Drink up me hearties, Yo Ho! Let’s toast a dram of Rhum and go chase that horizon! Yaaaarrrr!
🏴‍☠️🍺🍻🍹🧉⚓️🏝️

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🍔It’s National Cheeseburger Day! 🍔
And there’s nothing better than a great burger after some awesome dives in the BVI!

Did you know that the Cheeseburger in Paradise has BVI roots?

Here’s the story from the man himself, Jimmy Buffett...

“The myth of the cheeseburger in paradise goes back to a long trip on my first boat, the Euphoria. We had run into some very rough weather crossing the Mona Passage between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, and broke our new bowsprit. The ice in our box had melted and we were doing the canned-food-and-peanut-butter diet. The vision of a piping hot cheeseburger kept popping into my mind. We limped up the Sir Francis Drake Channel and into Road Town on the island of Tortola where a brand new marina and bar sat at the end of our dock like a mirage. We secured the boat, kissed the ground and headed to the restaurant. To our amazement we were offered a menu that featured an American cheeseburger and piña coladas…we gave particular instructions to the waiter on how we wanted them cooked, and what we wanted on them—to which very little attention was paid. It didn’t matter. The overdone burgers on the burned, toast buns tasted like manna from Heaven, for they were the realization of my fantasy burgers on the trip. That’s the true story. I’ve heard other people and places claim that I stopped or cooked in their restaurants but that is the way it happened.”

So as it turns out, Buffett did eat a cheeseburger—a burned one at an unnamed spot on Tortola. That means there’s no way to steer after all, which is oddly comforting. The cheeseburger in paradise is a state of mind, and if you’re eating one, you’ll know it.

From my own personal research, that place was Village Cay Marina in Roadtown. I’ve had a few burgers there, and ALL over the BVI, but one of my favorites is at @bathturtlechezbamboo on Virgin Gorda. The burger up at @nova_oilnutbay at Oil Nut Bay Marina Village is pretty darn good too!

What’s your favorite burger in the BVI? Let us know in the comments and Happy Cheeseburger Day!!!

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Just a friendly reminder that we are here for you! Diving, snorkeling, eco tours, boat trips and more.

Give us a shout and we’ll get you out!

#divebvi #todayistheday #whychooseus #bviboattrips #bviscubadiving #scuba #scubadiving #privateboatcharters #BVI #VirginGorda ...

Jeff and Casey are headed home after a fun weekend in Boulder Colorado sharing their BVI knowledge and history. Our friends at @ocean.first put on an amazing show with ScubaCon 2025 and we hope to see new guests headed to Virgin Gorda soon!

Didn’t make it to ScubaCon, but still want to know more about BVI diving? Hit us up via email or online!

💻 info@divebvi.com

Sea ya soon! ...

Come see Captain Jeff in Boulder this weekend! He’s talking all things BVI at Scuba Con with his friends at @ocean.first and sharing info on great accommodations at @guavaberryspringbay!

Hit us up in@person or visit online at DiveBVI.com

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