DivingKDawg
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My wife and I are looking at a possible Bahamas scuba trip. We are both Advanced certified. We like big fish, coral, wrecks.
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muzikbiz22
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UNEXSO, Stuart Cove, Riding Rock.
drrich2
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One big question is whether to do a live-aboard (Blackbeard's, Juliet or Lost Island Voyages, Aquacat - in rough increasing order of cost/comfort) vs. land-based. If it's all about the diving, and since you're bringing a wife, I'd look at the AquaCat.
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It's been a long time since we were at the Riding Rock Inn on San Salvador but they are currently doing construction and will reopen fully in March 2016 - so it may be time to go back. I remember beautiful wall dives and sharks on just about every dive and a very efficient dive operation. The resort was small and a bit run down but clean. The food was family style and it was usually quite good. It depends on what you are looking for, there are not a lot of topside attractions on San Sal, but it is a very pretty, remote, and interesting spot with great diving.
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If you both like camping and diving Blackbeards was a great experience not luxury at any stretch but fun.
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Here's a pretty decent wreck list: Wreck Dives | The Official Site of The Bahamas And the BDA members list which is not all of the operations but most of them. Bahamas Government Portal - Welcome to Bahamas Diving
Cove's does the shark dives. Logistically I'm not a fan of their operation since they have to shuttle everyone from Nassau to their location on the south side - it takes 45mins. each way. I prefer to rent a car and drive to the shop/dock. Which you can do at Bahama Divers in the channel between Nassau and Paradise Island. Those are really the only two options on Nassau though so dive prices are a little higher. And some of the Cove's wrecks are really old movie sets - a Bond film plus Into the Deep was filmed there. Since they get fed daily, there's often reef sharks in the area as well as at the feed sites.
Another option is UNEXSO and the other shops on Freeport. UNEXSO also does Dolphin dives as well as shark feeds. The Theo is possibly the signature deep wreck - 240' long, 100' deep. And for the real big fish - two shops are going out to Tiger Beach almost daily from there - Epic Diving and the shop at the Wyndham. That looks something like this - although not my photo that's Emma. She likes divers. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1f2qzLwbf...nE/Hf8iK9oNVfU/s1600/Hook+-+Emma+and+Hook.jpg
A quieter option is also Small Hope Bay Lodge on Andros. They do some advanced dives - a couple sound very interesting. It was on our go list for years but we've changed focus more recently. Dive Sites
Cove's does the shark dives. Logistically I'm not a fan of their operation since they have to shuttle everyone from Nassau to their location on the south side - it takes 45mins. each way. I prefer to rent a car and drive to the shop/dock. Which you can do at Bahama Divers in the channel between Nassau and Paradise Island. Those are really the only two options on Nassau though so dive prices are a little higher. And some of the Cove's wrecks are really old movie sets - a Bond film plus Into the Deep was filmed there. Since they get fed daily, there's often reef sharks in the area as well as at the feed sites.
Another option is UNEXSO and the other shops on Freeport. UNEXSO also does Dolphin dives as well as shark feeds. The Theo is possibly the signature deep wreck - 240' long, 100' deep. And for the real big fish - two shops are going out to Tiger Beach almost daily from there - Epic Diving and the shop at the Wyndham. That looks something like this - although not my photo that's Emma. She likes divers. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1f2qzLwbf...nE/Hf8iK9oNVfU/s1600/Hook+-+Emma+and+Hook.jpg
A quieter option is also Small Hope Bay Lodge on Andros. They do some advanced dives - a couple sound very interesting. It was on our go list for years but we've changed focus more recently. Dive Sites
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