Bimini Charters
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Wow - that would be one long day. The places I know run multi-day trips there. Even I would have trouble blasting across the Florida Straits, doing a bunch of dives, blasting back across, and clearing customs in one day. The DEA and Customs people do the run all the time, but they have four outboards on their boats, plus they don't pay for the gas.
mike_s
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I agree with Tom here...... That would be a long day trip. Also not cost productive.
It'd take 3-4 hours to get to Bimini in a boat large enough to handle 6-8 foot waves of the Gulf Steam doing 18 to 20 knots. Once you get there, the bahamas has raised their customs rates on boaters now. It's $300 per boat.
Considering it costs about $125-$150 per diver to dive the Empire Mica on an all day trip and it's only a 25 mile one-way trip and doesn't require as big of a boat or crossing the gulf stream anc clearing customs going both ways, I don't see how a Florida operator could make the Bimini run with divers for less than $250 to $300 per diver for a day.
It'd take 3-4 hours to get to Bimini in a boat large enough to handle 6-8 foot waves of the Gulf Steam doing 18 to 20 knots. Once you get there, the bahamas has raised their customs rates on boaters now. It's $300 per boat.
Considering it costs about $125-$150 per diver to dive the Empire Mica on an all day trip and it's only a 25 mile one-way trip and doesn't require as big of a boat or crossing the gulf stream anc clearing customs going both ways, I don't see how a Florida operator could make the Bimini run with divers for less than $250 to $300 per diver for a day.
mike_s
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DSimp:
It's possible. Just not cost productive for a non-liveaboard.. The diving there is good though.
If you want to go on a boat from Florida, check out the Blackbeard Cruises. That's the destination that they go to the most and they depart from Miami.
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