Itinerary
Day 01
Early wake-up, flights, arrival! Get acquainted with our beautiful home base at Hodges Creek Marina and meet your captain and everyone on your program. You’ll have your first boat meeting over a delicious dinner and set the course for the rest of your adventures to come.
Days 02-05
Your Captain leads you through some preparations and basic sailing lessons before you de-dock for a first sail across the Sir Francis Drake Channel. You’ll become familiar with the boat, go over basic navigation, practice using the winches, and take a turn behind the helm as you head toward Cooper Island. Manchioneel Bay provides a mix of stunning coral as well as flat sandy patches to begin practicing advanced scuba skills.
Days 06-09
You and your dive group are in for an exciting trip as you complete your first dive on the wreck of the Rhone. Dive on in again at night and see what a different world it is! Head to Nanny Cay for your first docking as a crew and celebrate with some shopping, beach volleyball, pool time, and ice cream!
Days 10-13
Heading to the North Sound, you and your crew will have to step up on Challenge Day! Your Captain and Mates are just along for the ride so you’ll look to each other for leadership and support. Enjoy all that Bitter End has to offer: hiking, watersports, restaurants, and small boat sailing. You’ll continue working toward your specialties or rescue diver certifications.
Days 14-17
Let the festivities begin! An endless stretch of beach is the site of Sail Caribbean’s Olympics. Events such as the tug-o-war and dizzy-fender set the stage for a little friendly competition between boats. This day always proves to be full of laughter and memories. Head up to Anegada for some island exploration and truck tours. Explore the shark ponds where baby nurse sharks and flamingos hang out.
Days 18-20
Learn about the life cycle of a sea turtle at Diamond Cay and check out one of their favorite hangouts. Join other Sail Caribbean students at Trellis Bay for a Sushi night at Marche’s. Before you head back to base, stop off at The Baths for a spectacular hike and snorkel in the BVI’s most treasured national park.
Day 21
Fond farewells are said as you head back home – airplane letters in hand – ready to tell your family about all your amazing scuba adventures!
Sail CaribbeanActivities
ON EVERY SAIL CARIBBEAN ADVENTURE
Sail Caribbean offers a diverse group of adventure groups with multiple different sessions in the British Virgin and Leeward Islands of the Caribbean. You live aboard a modern 50′ monohull yacht or 45′ catamaran with other teens in your age group and learn to sail. No experience is necessary. Every adventure focuses on an activity, but each offers scuba, marine biology, community service, cultural exchange, watersports, friendships, personal growth and lifelong memories. On every Sail Caribbean adventure, the students learn how to be a part of a crew everyday but also how to gain independence and become a leader on the vessel that translates to everyday life.
Want to compare adventures? Download our 2025 Schedule (PDF)!
Optional Courses
Sailing Courses
Prerequisites: None
This certification is bestowed on any crew member who demonstrates the ability to fully participate in the daily sailing tasks on board and passes a written test proving that they’ve mastered fundamental information on safety, seamanship, navigation and boat handling skills.
Prerequisites: SC Crew
Proving you have an understanding of some of the more advanced sailing theories and demonstrating the ability to participate in sail reefing, timed tacking and jibing, island crossing, advanced navigation, anchoring, docking and de-docking skills along with racing tactics and proper safety techniques will earn you our Bosun certification.
Prerequisites: SC Crew & Bosun
A focus on leadership while underway is the core of this certification. You’ll earn Mate certification if you succeed at assigning crew positions, directing most phases of seamanship and safety drills, demonstrate proper engine, dinghy and equipment use and maintenance, keep an accurate ship’s log and monitor the weather all skills that make you a capable second in command.
Scuba courses
Prerequisite: Must be Open Water certified or equivalent
Non-certification recreational diving is available as an option on all of our adventures. Ever imagine diving on a coral garden, drifting through a rainbow canyon, or exploring a sunken wreck? You will enjoy recreational diving in the BVI with our own Sail Caribbean Divers Instructors and Divemasters. On Delta in the Leeward Islands, professional dive instructors from each island along with our dive staff take you to gorgeous dive sites. You’ll gain expert knowledge from each local instructor and get the most out of every dive site you visit. You must provide proof of certification from a recognized agency like PADI, NAUI, YMCA, or NASDS.
You may be able to earn multiple dive specialty certifications. The particular specialties offered will depend on the adventure chosen and our diving schedule. You will decide which specialties you’d like to do when you are in the Caribbean.
All below are available on Charlie Advanced Scuba adventures. Availability on other adventures is shown.
Peak Performance Buoyancy
Prerequisite: PADI Open Water or equivalent
Also available on Sierra
Practice techniques for improving buoyancy and decreasing air consumption resulting in better under water control and more enjoyment/preservation of the diving environment. (2 dives)
Project AWARE Dive Against Debris
Prerequisite: PADI Open Water or equivalent
Also available on Foxtrot and Sierra
The impact on marine life of garbage dumped in our oceans is one of the biggest issues of our time. You can help by going on a dive with mash bags to collect the debris that
Project AWARE Reef Fish Identification
Prerequisite: PADI Open Water or equivalent
Also available on Sierra
Study a variety of fish while observing and identifying markings, shapes, and behavior. (2 dives)
Underwater Naturalist
Prerequisite: PADI Open Water or equivalent
Also available on Sierra and Ocean
Explore and identify marine life including vertebrates, invertebrates, and plant life. (2 dives)
Project AWARE Specialist
Prerequisite: None
Familiarize yourself with the plight of worldwide aquatic ecosystems and learn how to protect aquatic resources. (Non-diving specialty)
Project AWARE Coral Reef Conservation
Prerequisite: None
Also available on Foxtrot
Study the fragile Coral Reef system, and how to preserve it, while observing and identifying markings, shapes, and growth. (Non-diving specialty)
Digital Underwater Photographer
Prerequisite: PADI Open Water or equivalent
Learn the PADI SEA (shoot, examine, adjust) method, principals for getting good photos underwater, plus how to edit and share your shots. (2 dives)
Boat Diver
Prerequisite: PADI Open Water or equivalent
Develop skills needed to dive safely from a power or sailboat as well as special procedures for diving in areas with boat traffic. (2 dives)
Underwater Navigator
Prerequisite: PADI Open Water or equivalent
Hone your underwater navigation skills using a compass, natural navigation techniques, and other navigational tools. (3 dives)
Night Diver
Prerequisite: PADI Open Water or equivalent
Explore the intrigue of diving at night while focusing on equipment handling, navigation, nocturnal marine creatures, and day to night contrast. (3 dives)
Search and Recovery Diver
Prerequisite: PADI Advanced or equivalent
Practice search patterns, effective search techniques in various conditions, and raising heavy objects using lifting devices. (4 dives)
Multi-level Diver
Prerequisite: PADI Advanced or equivalent
Apply valuable techniques for extending bottom times using the recreational dive planner (wheel format) and diving computers. (2 dives)
Drift Diver
Prerequisite: PADI Open Water or equivalent
Learn pertinent safety techniques, how to fine tune your buoyancy and use specialized equipment, as you use the ocean currents and tides as your propulsion. (2 dives)
RMS Rhone Diver
Prerequisite: PADI Advanced or equivalent; 15+ yrs old
The RMS Rhone Diver Specialty, a PADI Distinctive Specialty, is exclusively available at Sail Caribbean. Made famous in the movie, The Deep, this 310-ft cargo ship sank in 1867. She is our most requested dive site and is regularly voted the top wreck dive in the Caribbean.
Enriched Air Diver- Nitrox
Prerequisite: PADI Open Water or equivalent; 15+ yrs old
Learn recreational skills and techniques for diving with different mixes of Oxygen and Nitrogen, for increased bottom time. (2 dives)
Wreck Diver
Prerequisite: PADI Adventure or equivalent; 15+ yrs old
Learn recreational skills and techniques for diving in man-made environments and practice using specialized wreck equipment. (4 dives)
Deep Diver
Prerequisite: PADI Adventure or equivalent; 15+ yrs old
Discover deep dive planning, hazards, special equipment, and extra safety precautions. (4 dives)
For Open Water divers who want to earn the next certification.
Divers who are already certified can go to the next level and improve their skills. You will receive your PADI textbook upon arrival in the islands. During the course you will complete interesting and informative knowledge reviews along with navigation, night and deep dives, plus two other dives of your choice in assorted specialty areas for a total of five dives. After the course, you can use your skills to enjoy recreational dives during the remainder of your adventure.
(If you are interested in scuba first aid and safety and have already completed advanced level scuba training from a recognized agency)
This is a demanding course requiring strong commitment. The course includes ten rescue exercises and four scenarios designed to enhance self-rescue skills and teach in-water rescue procedures for recreational divers. After you have completed the final exam and rescue scenarios, you will be granted the highest non-professional diving certification available. Advanced Open Water or equivalent is a prerequisite. Current CPR and 1st Aid are prerequisites.
About Online First Aid and CPR Courses: Several training providers are now offering first aid and CPR courses that are entirely online and have no face-to-face interaction with, or skill review by, an authorized first aid instructor. These online-only courses do not meet first aid and CPR training requirements for dive courses such as PADI Rescue Diver or PADI Divemaster.
To earn this certification you must have completed the advanced and rescue certification levels or equivalent, five PADI specialty certifications, and proof of 50 logged dives. This is not a separate course, simply an additional rating a diver is eligible to apply for based on commendable diving experience.
We offer an Emergency First Response course in the Caribbean to satisfy CPR and First Aid prerequisites on 3-week Charlie adventures. However, if you’d like to get in the water sooner we highly recommend that you take CPR and 1st Aid before the program.
About Online First Aid and CPR Courses: Several training providers are now offering first aid and CPR courses that are entirely online and have no face-to-face interaction with, or skill review by, an authorized first aid instructor. These online-only courses do not meet first aid and CPR training requirements for dive courses such as PADI Rescue Diver or PADI Divemaster.
Dates & Costs
| Session | Start Date | End Date | Cost* | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charlie 1 Advanced Scuba | 06/22/2025 | 07/12/2025 | $7995 | 21 |
| Charlie 2 Advanced Scuba | 07/14/2025 | 08/03/2025 | $7995 | 21 |
*The tuition above does not reflect optional insurance, optional courses, and transportation fees.
