Dive Review of Stuart Cove & Nassau Scuba Center in
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Stuart Cove & Nassau Scuba Center, Aug, 2002, by Marv Gozum, PA, USA . Report 137.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$	N/A
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	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.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Turks & Caicos, Little Cayman, Grand Cayman, So. Florida, Florida Keys, Statia
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm
Water Temp	84-86°F / 29-30°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	20-130 Ft/ 6-40 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	30 Min BT, about 40-50 min dive times; 80' max depth by tables, 130' by computer
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
Dolphins	1 or 2	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 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	Nassau is very developed; they can support photography easily; alas there may not be much to photograph but sharks

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

Stuart Cove & Nassau Scuba Center, Aug, 2002,

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Dive Review of Stuart Cove & Nassau Scuba Center in
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