Inshore & Offshore Sport Fishing & Snorkeling Adventures Home of the Buy-One Get-One Free Sun Protection Performance Gear!
FEED THE MONSTER TARPON!
From the inshore reefs to where deep ocean waters meet, Ocean Surfari provides a unique experience on the water and high quality apparel to keep the memory alive.
At Ocean Surfari, we keep clients coming back by always treating them fairly, and like friends. Letting them experience our island life. A life that doesn’t require shoes - although, I think I do have a pair, somewhere - a life that flows with the breeze and the waves. But also, a life that can be very exciting at times. We offer a taste of this wonderful life on every excursion with Ocean Surfari and thankfully, it keeps clients coming back for more!
- Captain Marc
... AND HERE IS THE REST OF OUR CREW
David Scott Ware
Sales Associate “Bandit” as he is known to friends, was borne in Cincinnati, Ohio and has travelled the U.S. extensively, starting with a drive all the way to L.A. as an eighteen-year-old. He actually lived “homeless” for about four months in Tampa Florida many years ago and says that experience is among some of the …
Lindsay Metz
Sales Associate & Boat Crew Lindsay splits her time these days between crewing on the Reef Surfari, and offering sales assistance in the Ocean Surfari shops. She is a bungee jumping, sky diving, dolphin trainer (no kidding, she helped train the dolphins for the movie “Fifty First Dates”) and an all-around fun person to be …
Jada Rhymer
Sales Associate Jada may be a St. Thomas native, but that has not stopped her from seeing the world. During High School, she was a foreign exchange student in Columbia S.A. and also spent time in California. But being local definitely gives Jada an edge when it comes to knowing what is going on, and …
Stephanie Hibberts
Sales Associate Stephanie Hibberts is arguably Ocean Surfari’s second furthest-from-home employee, at roughly 8,448 miles from her birth place in Kwajalein, Marshall Islands (behind Lavin Malkani at 9,621 from Hong Kong). Like most Ocean Surfari employees, Stephanie has had many life experiences that would be the envy of many. From scuba diving in some of …
Riley Nichols
Mate Riley is pleased to serve as Mate aboard the Reef Surfari snorkel boat, one of the newest on the Island, this craft will take 49 passengers to some of the most beautiful snorkel destination in the world! Riley is known for her infectious smile and hails from Florida originally. She was also a gymnast for 11 …
Tabatha Popkey
Sales Associate Tabatha (Tabby to here friends) is one part hard working sales associate, one-part free spirit, and two parts animal loving, sun worshipping, health conscious woman. Once almost arrested for hitting on a US Marshal, this Florida native turned island girl, is a big football fan, with a pet turtle, and says she likes …
Lavin Malkani
Store Manager, St. John Lavin Malkani is one of those people that people like to meet. Always fun and happy, Lavin has traveled the world, sky dived from 18,000 feet, owned two businesses and sold a million dollars’ worth of jewelry many years in a row! To say that one of Ocean Surfari’s newest employees has lived …
Niki Rasmussen
Havensight Store Manager Niki, or “Sunshine” as she is most often called, may be young, but she has lived a life already. This Wisconsin native packed three suitcases, flew to Las Vegas, got married and moved to the Virgin Islands with no hesitation, and no looking back. Niki and her husband (she married her best …
Yvonne Light
Retail Manager Perhaps it’s genetic. Maybe it’s environmental. But whether the reason can be determined or not, a nickname stuck because Yvonne Light is always hungry. Looking for snacks here and yon … so her friends call her Starvin’ Marvin. It may just be an active metabolism fueled by her drive, because at one point …
Christie Myers
Receiving Manager An original “Jersey Girl,” (Neptune, NJ actually), Christie Myers has lived in St. Thomas for 27 years and has no plans to go anywhere else. She’s a self-described surfer who rides the waves every chance she gets. So living on an island provides the perfect opportunity to hang ten whenever she likes. Christie’s …
Wendy Blackburn
Co-Owner Ocean Surfari Wendy Blackburn is a free-spirited soul who has sailed to Bora Bora, reads several books at a time, lists people-watching as a favorite pastime and is an unashamed, die-hard Barry Manilow fan. She is also a hard-working business owner and absolutely loves the fact that she and her husband Marc run one …
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Ocean Surfari apparel reflects the lifestyle that we live and have experienced throughout the years. We make design focused clothing that you can wear on the boat during a trip or back at the dock. Be sure to check out our OS SPF 50+ Performance shirts - our best seller for years! You're sure to see them around the islands. Check back soon for our new 2020 collection and 2019 closeout sale!
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