PADI AWARE - Conservation Specialty

The Scuba Shop SXM Dive Center & Beach Boutique offers Equipment Sales, Rentals and Service, Dive Trips and PADI Certifications with a focus on Conservation and "Dive with a Purpose", as well as a DOT certified Hydrostatic Retest Center for your Cylinder service. 

The Scuba Shop SXM is a 5 Star PADI Dive and Eco Center:

• PADI Five Star Dive Centers are progressive dive shops that provide a full range of PADI scuba diving education programs, equipment selection and experience opportunities, while encouraging aquatic environmental responsibility.
• PADI Eco Center is granted to PADI Dive Centers,  Resorts and Liveaboards that demonstrate a dedication to conservation and dive industry sustainability. Through Adopt the Blue, each PADI Eco Center is actively promoting marine biodiversity and community resilience by addressing our ocean’s global challenges. PADI Eco Centers create opportunities for all to engage in direct conservation action including citizen science, policy advocacy, and education.

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. Of the numerous varieties of reef fish, you are likely to see Great Barracudas, Parrot Fish, Angel Fish, Spotted File Fish, Drummer Fish, Lionfish, Moray Eels, Stingrays, Spotted Eagle Rays, Turtles, Lobster, both Nurse and Reef sharks and lots of macro critters. There are numerous well established reef systems with a variety of beautiful soft and hard corals.

We welcome you to snorkel, scuba and mermaid with us in our beautiful waters.