I just got back from Nassau and we wound up diving with Stuart's Cove. I've done diving with BD in the pst and had always wondered if SC was all it was cracked up to be. Short answer, not in my opinion.
Due to my wife's "slow ears" we had scheduled what was supposed ot be a 1 tank, relatively shallow dive for our first time in the wter. However, SC put us on a 2 tank 85 ft wall dive followed by a 55 ft reef dive . . . thus voiding both the 1 tank and the "relatively shallow" portions of the original agreement. (Their response was, "Well, you can go through the resort course with the newbie divers and do the 35 ft dive with them.")
It was a cattle boat but, I have to admit, a relatively well run cattle boat. They had everyone initial their presence at the dock and then after each dive. However, they also cut short the first dive for my wife and I because we didn't go over the wall and, therefore, had more bottom time from our tanks but the "dive master" came over and hustled us back to the obat.
While we did get wet all over (and, thus, had some fun), we didn't see anything worth the $100 per person that it cost (and, according to my daughter and her husband, neither did those who went over the wall because of the speed at which they were escorted).
I'd save my money and wait for Grand Cayman before I'd go back to Stuart's Cove!
However, I have had some good dives in the Freeport area. More to see every time I've been there than in the Nassau area.
