Dive Review of
Dive Bermuda (fomerly Nautica)/in Hamilton in
Bermuda

Carib and Hawaii

Dive Conditions

strict follow-the-leader and asked us to surface with 800 psi  

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Overall Rating

Dived out of Hamilton at shop accessible through a fancy hotel lobby, but
nobody seemed to mind us passing through in wet swimwear and T-shirts.

The first tank was a shallow (45 feet) coral shelf, with no special
features to
bring us back.  After a short ride (and short interval, but sufficient
since so
shallow) we dived a double wreck.

The Montana was a Confederate States of America gun runner, a steel paddle
wheel steamer that sank in the 1800s.  That wreck still has a lot of
vertical
structure to enjoy, including some of the paddle blades and the boiler.

Scattered on top and adjacent to this the Constellation, a 1943 wreck of a
wooden sailing ship that inspired Peter Benchley's book (and later movie)
"The 
Deep". Though only the mast step of the original structure remains,
the cargo
is much in evidence.  Their load of bags of cement have formed a surreal
landscape of "pillows", with slate slabs destined for use in pool
tables mingled
among them.  The rest of their cargo was more fragile or salvaged early
on;
the site is protected from collecting and still littered with the whiskey
bottles
from the more perishable part of the cargo.

The double wreck was  a lovely dive.  The site is accessible even when the
southern end of Bermuda is blown out by swell or high winds.

The dive operation is targetting the cruise ships in Hamilton, and so aims
at
easy dives and enforced profiles. 

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