Cave Diving Bahamas
Directly exposed to the atlantic the pristine reefs of the abacos are slightly different from much of the bahamas with many relatively shallow dive sites 18 meters 60 feet.
Cave diving bahamas. The bahamas underground is the bahamas only technical and cave diving oriented training and adventure facility. The cave diving community is a global one partly due to the highly specialised nature with the resulting small numbers of practitioners at a local level. In 2005 says brian.
For non certified cavers sites such as ben s cavern are perfect for sampling a bit of this vast realm. Cdg newsletter issue 74 january 1985. View exotic sea creatures at mama rhoda reef the eel garden among others throughout the chain.
The berry islands offer spectacular blue hole cavern reef wall and wreck diving with several must see sites. Cave diving practice can differ markedly by locality. The waters off new providence where nassau is the main city provide drop offs that are close to shore blue holes caves historical wrecks and thrilling shark diving.
The caves and deep wall dives in the exuma cays proved to be challenging and a perfect environment to learn the scientific significance of the underwater world in the bahamas. 8 thunderball grotto. For serious cave divers grand bahama has one of the world s longest underwater cave systems in the world the lucayan national park with more than 32 000 feet of mapped passages.
Steve robinson 2018 01 16t09 46 54 00 00. However the bahamas offer a number of caves and blue holes that require no or only basic cave diving skills to explore. Balk at the use of any sort of.
11 adult males five adult. The bahamas underground is operated by brian kakuk with more than 15 years of cave exploration experience. You can dive 20 feet off a cliff into hoffman cay s famous blue hole or walk into the blue hole near bullock s harbour from the shore.
One such difference is the use of a floating polypropylene guide line. Brian started cave diving in 1990 on andros island and is credited with some of the deepest and longest cave dives in the bahamas. Located in marsh harbor abaco bahamas the bahamas underground provides training and guided diving services to some of the best blue holes and underwater caves in the bahamas.
