Bahamas Diving

[813Diver]

Hi everyone,

I'm going to be taking a four day cruise on RCCL to the Bahamas in early August. I was leery of how diving on a cruise would be, so I called them up and asked about what operators they use.

In Nassau, we'll be going on a two-tank boat trip through Nassau Scuba Centre. Does anyone know anything about that outfit?

Thanks.

 

[citadel83]

I used them last November (2002) for 4 morning dives. They were very good and except for a very shallow reef dive, had a divemaster in the water.

 

[813Diver]

A divemaster? They didn't have more than one divemaster for the whole boat? And they didn't put a divemaster in the water on one dive? That just doesn't sound right.

 

[TropicalDiver]

A divemaster is not always needed in the water if the group of divers is competent. Probably assumed that his presence was not needed on the shallow dive - nothing wrong with that if divers were competent.

 

[augie]

This brings up a good point, that being that different people have widely varying expectations, largely colored by their own experience, of the "proper" procedures for a dive operator to follow.

The charter outfit my LDS uses for all of their classes does drift diving primarily, but no matter what kind of diving they do a DM from the charter is in the water as a guide and/or flag bearer.

The first time I dove from a boat in the Keys I was surprised to find that unless you hired a personal DM as a guide, you were responsible for finding the way back to the boat by yourself.

No problem except for a couple of times we had to do middle to long surface swims, and I'm used to the concept now, but I still see "that look" on diver's faces when that realization dawns on them during the first briefing.

 

[DocVikingo]

Nassau Scuba Centre has always done a good job for me. It's my first choice on New Providence.

Best regards.

DocVikingo

 

[Tim Ingersoll]

I dove with Stuart Cove's on the south side of the island. They will arrange transport from most hotels. I liked them alot and would definitely do the shark dive agin.