I consider March a hit or miss month here. You know spring wants to come but sometimes winter comes roaring right back at us. (Yes we have winter in the Bahamas!) The boat rides can be bumpier in March and the water temp is still in it's lower ranges (75F).
Viz is better because of less...
Small Hope offers a shark dive (using a chumball method, very unintrusive) and we regularly see sharks on dives.
We get wild dolphins at our dock that will tolerate snorkelers for a bit. This is more common in the summer.
Um, I pee in my wetsuit AT our shark dive. They don't seem to pay special attention to me...
Sharks tend not to get too aggressive towards divers who aren't spearing but if they do get a little too curious, a bop on the nose sends the right message. Most sharks don't like bubbles so I just...
I did my training at a "Zero to Hero" center in Mexico called Neptunes Diving. The classroom education was second to none and the diving was fun. There isn't a lot of variety in the diving (and almost no deep diving) but I still came out as a good instructor.
If you have time, work up to...
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Hi all,
I can answer some of the questions about our diving, but I don't do the tech diving so I'll have to get someone else to answer the technical questions.
Our Over the Wall dive has been one of our signature dives for 50 years. We descend over the Tongue of the Ocean and sit on a ledge...
I have a feeling narcosis and inexperience had a little to do with this. Once he got shallow enough to clear his narcosis, his runaway ascent was probably starting and his panic was probably already present.
I really hope he recovers fully!
My resort has been running this dive since 1960 with no problems. Divers are evaluated at 90 and either 120/140 feet for air consumption before being taken down.
I usually surface with 1800 pounds (AL80 with a starting pressure of 3000) after an 18 minute dive.
In two years of doing the dive...
Maybe it's a Florida/Caribbean thing but we run 80s here too. We have a couple 100s on hand for the hoovers but normally everyone is fine on the 80s, even when we run 120, 140 and 185ft dives.
I wonder if they were on a boat with a divemaster or if they were private. I just wonder if they had...
I'd like to throw a vote in the ring for Small Hope Bay Lodge. We're a 10 minute flight from Nassau and are on the 3rd largest barrier reef in the world. There are lots of beautiful shallow dives for the kiddos to do, along with some great deeper diving for mom and dad!
Check us out at...
SWCC Ready -
I did my training for DM and OWSI at Neptunes Diving and I had a great time. The instruction was good and you get real world experience. Manzanillo is an awesome town and I am still friends with everyone I went to school with. It's a great experience. You should check them out...
Here on Andros, we've had to call dives for the past two days because of the weather. I'm not sure how they run it in Nassau but the Bahamas does get bad weather sometimes too!
Hope you have good luck with the wind!
Hi Craig,
I'm in Andros and the coldest it got last year was 71.
6mm with a hood should be enough but if you are really worried about it, bring your drysuit. Being comfortable is the most important thing. It's no fun diving cold!:)
Diving in a drysuit without proper instruction is dangerous. Your instructors were remiss in letting you go into the water with one on, especially in poor viz. A lot of things could have gone wrong and I think the owner of the shop should be made aware of what happened. If they did the same...
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