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Aqua Cat Cruises: "A Tale of Two Reefs", May, 2022, by Hugh E Aaron, FL, US ( Sr. Contributor 24 reports with 19 Helpful votes). Report 11929.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	With three different levels of liveaboard boats (Aqua Cat, Cat Ppalu, and Blackbeards) diving the Exumas for decades, All Star Liveaboards really knows the Exumas. Aqua Cat is the flagship of the All Star Exumas fleet. Aqua Cat leaves from Nassau before sunrise on Sunday and, cruising at about 10 knots, arrives in the northern Exumas in time for a morning dive. Our week, Captain Sam hopped from dive site to dive site traveling as far south as the Exumas Land Sea Park before turning around and working our way north again. Once we entered the Exumas, it was five dives a day including night dives until Thursday when we had a going away Captain’s Party instead of the night dive. It was quite an event complete with a photo contest, "awards" and a lot of light hearted comedy. On Friday we made our last dive in the Exumas before starting back to Nassau stopping along the way to dive the Lost Blue Hole. Friday night was a laid back evening in the marina. The crew understandably requests that everyone stay off the boat (or on the dive deck only) on Saturday after breakfast so that they can prep the boat for the next group of guests. However, they hold all luggage on the dive deck until the ground transport van arrives. We walked into town that morning, returning in time to catch our airport shuttle. But the marina pool would have been another option. All of the ground transportation and luggage transfers are coordinated by the crew. Aqua Cat is a serious dive boat. The boat, crew, systems and itinerary are all finely tuned for getting in as much diving as possible. Each diver is assigned a station on the dive deck with a seat, a storage bin and two tanks. There is also plenty of space to hang wet items. The fill whips reach each diver’s station so the tanks can be filled in place (with either air or nitrox) after each dive without removing the BC. It is evident that a lot of thought was put into making it comf ... Subscribe to get the full story. Active subscribers continue reading here
Websites	Aqua Cat Cruises
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Virginia, North Carolina, California, Hawaii, Florida, Abaco, Bimini, Culebra, USVI, BVI, Cozumel, Isla Mujeres, Caymans, Dominica, Roatan, Belize, Saba, St, Barths, St Kitts, Nevis, Saint Martin, Bequia, Bonaire, Curacao, Thailand, Australia, Egypt
Closest Airport	Lynden Pindling (Paradise Island/Nassau)	Getting There	Nonstop from Fort Lauderdale in less than 40 minutes
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, rainy, cloudy, dry	Seas	calm, choppy, surge, currents, no currents
Water Temp	78-79°F / 26-26°C	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	40-130 Ft/ 12-40 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Recreational dive limits, generally back on the boat is about 50 minutes, but mostly just so we had time to get to the next dive site. With 5 dives a day, 50 minutes per dive was fine for us.
Liveaboard?	yes	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	They are set up for serious photographers with dedicated wet and dry work space on the dive deck. T ... Subscribe to get the full story. Active subscribers continue reading here

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Dive Review of Aqua Cat Cruises in Bahamas/Exumas

Aqua Cat Cruises: "A Tale of Two Reefs", May, 2022,

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Dive Review of Aqua Cat Cruises in
Bahamas/Exumas