Dive Review of
Stuart Cove & Nassau Scuba Center in
Bahamas/Nassau

Turks & Caicos, Little Cayman, Grand Cayman, So. Florida, Florida Keys,
Statia

Dive Conditions

30 Min BT, about 40-50 min dive times; 80' max depth by tables, 130' by
computer  

Nassau is very developed; they can support photography easily; alas there
may not be much to photograph but sharks  

Overall Rating

Nassau, Bahamas is poor diving value. While the waters are sapphire to
turquoise, crystal clear visibility from 50-130' in many places, its
climate pleasant in summer, all reefs I visited were 50-90% denuded of live
coral. Bottom times are kept at 30 minutes, and rare haggling could get you
60 minutes. Fish life existed as mostly juveniles in small schools amidst a
skeletonized landscape of dead coral that betrayed a past glory. The wrecks
are small and uninspiring, much like quarry wrecks in the northeast USA.
The locals are some of the nicest and friendliest I've met in the
Caribbean, while the expats are some of the most disenchanted. Nassau is
expensive, developed and optimized to harvest US tourist dollars. With 700
reported islands and cays, there are many options in the Bahamas besides
Nassau, if not elsewhere in the Caribbean.  Stuart Cove's is a dive vending
machine, impresonal but precise.  Nassau Scuba Center is more personal. 

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