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Underwater fun for everyone
WHAT-TO-DO - NASSAU, CABLE BEACH & PARADISE ISLAND - JULY 2005
Underwater fun for everyone
Diving New Providence
Everyone, from beginner to expert, can find a dive to suit their experience around New Providence, says instructor David Eades of Stuart Cove?s Dive Bahamas.
"We have everything here from shallow reefs to wall diving and wall flying to wrecks. Among the most popular and interesting are our shark snorkels and dives," says Eades.
Beginners will find dives that are friendly but memorable, such as the Southwest Reef and the shallow reefs around Golden Cay, he says. These dives are only a short boat ride away from Stuart Cove?s headquarters at the western end of the island.
You won't find any trouble finding the place. Stuart Cove's is the biggest dive company in The Bahamas. The company will pick you up and drop you back at your hotel after the dive.
Even though they are not deep, shallow reefs will give novices and snorkellers a look at the incredible variety of fish life and coral that inhabit New Providence's warm, clear waters.
Eades says that you?ll see lots of different kinds of coral and fish life, including yellowtail snappers, Nassau grouper, mutton fish, barracuda and parrot fish, to name only a few.
For more advanced
If you're a little more advanced, you can think about diving on one of at least 16 wrecks around the island. "One of the most popular is the Ray of Hope," says Eades. This was formerly a 200-foot cargo vessel, deliberately sunk by divers from Stuart Cove's a couple of years ago to provide the spine for a new reef.
Ray of Hope lies in about 40 feet of crystal clear water, sloping down to about 60 feet at the stern. You can enter into some of the creepy interior spaces. Also often called for are dives on wrecks used in James Bond movies says Eades, including Tears of Allah and Thunderball.
But the most interesting dives for intermediate and more experienced divers, says Eades, are shark dives. In a shark feeding dive, the divers kneel in a semicircle on the sandy ocean floor and watch transfixed as swarming Caribbean reef sharks move in to snap up snacks of fish offered by the feeder.
Also for the experienced are dives along the wall that defines the Tongue of the Ocean just off New Providence. The underwater cliff falls from 40 or 50 feet down more than a mile, but divers venture down only 80 feet or so, says Eades.
At this site, divers will see colourful corals and some very impressive fish, including the occasional shark cruising the wall.
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