Scuba Diving: Rainbow Reef and Northwind Tug Wreck in St. Croix USVI - Sailing Sweet Ruca
Sailing Sweet Ruca
Curtis and Kate traded Great Lakes racing for a J/46. Follow their 20,000 NM circuit from Cape Horn to their 2026 South Pacific chapter in Fiji.
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We dive Rainbow Reef and the Northwind Tug on the west end of St. Croix, USVI. We dropped into the crystal clear blue waters off the stern of our 46′ Sailboat “Sweet Ruca” to explore the waters around St. Croix.
This video is two dives put together into one movie. The first part is Rainbow Reef. It is located in approximately 40 feet of water just a few hundred yards off the coast. Home to some very amazing coral, we see parrot fish, trumpet fish, sea turtles, and more.
In the second half of the video we explore the Northwind Tugboat wreck. It is part of a group of shallow wrecks called the Shallow Wrecks at Butler Bay. We hop directly off the back of the sailboat and have to navigate in the current 300 yards or more and find the wreck in open water. It was worth the hunt. Located in about 55 feet of water, at 75 feet long, the Northwind was stripped and sunk in 1986 as an artificial reef. We see some very bright coral, hawksbill turtles, lionfish, blue tangs, and more.
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