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 Diving and Snorkeling - There is a couple of local dive shops (Treasures Divers) or (Mark Carroll at (242) 365-8582 within 50 yards of your condo)

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Abacos Islands

This 120 mile string of islands and cays provides spectacular underwater scenery for the adventure prone scuba diver like sheer walls, ledges and underwater cliffs as well as historical wrecks like the Civil War era steamship the San Jacinto

 

Brendal's  

Over 25 Years Diving Experience

PLATINUM PRO INSTRUCTOR
taught over 5000 students

Come to Brendal's Dive Center to experience the sea and the coral reefs surrounding the beautiful island of Abaco in the       Bahamas. Brendal's Dive Center is located on historic Green Turtle Cay, a short ferry ride from the Treasure Cay airport.

 

Treasure Divers   
Treasure Divers is a full service PADI dive shop offering daily snorkel and Scuba trips as well as instruction and certification on Treasure Cay, Abaco, Bahamas.
 

Froggies Out Island Adventures
Froggies has a full service dive center offering all levels of training. This PADI facility offers ful certification coures as well as rental gear and equipment.

Dive Abaco!
Full service scuba center in Abaco provides scuba and snorkeling trips, Instruction, rental gear.

 

Dive Guana
Full service dive center located on Great Guana Cay, offering pickup service from all cottages and resorts on Guana!

 

The waters of The Bahamas yield incredible 100-foot visibility, coral that grows a bit larger and marine life that is slightly more abundant than elsewhere in the already-teeming Caribbean Sea. Coral formations reveal their hypnotic shapes and colors, from fantastic coral canyons to delicate scarlet fans and latticework. The diving tends to improve the farther one goes into the Out Islands, and Andros is a particularly fine dive destination. Off the coast of the Abacos and Eleuthera, there are not only shipwrecks but also the rarest of undersea ruins--train wrecks.

Green Turtle Dive sites:

Tarpon Reef - high profile corals provide a home to Tarpon, a huge Green Moray
 

Coral Caverns - series of winding caverns filled with clouds of shiny Silversides
 

"The San Jacinto" - wreck of a large steamship that sank in 1865 in 40 feet of water
 

The Catacombs - shallow sun­splattered cavern with abundant tropical fish and frequent turtles
 

Coral Condos - large formation of coral heads with cascading plate coral and excellent marine life in 60' water.

 

Abaco Dive Sites:

Dive Sites around Abaco
(Residents rank the reef here the 3rd largest barrier reef in the world, which may or may not be true)
The Tunnels - group of honeycombed caverns, caves and tunnels, with light filtering through to create a dappled forest effect; friendly, almost tame fish can often be held; parrot fish, schools of blue tangs, sea fans, staghorn coral on top of brain coral; anemones, myriad tropicals

Coral Archway - 20-30' archway leads to undersea garden of coral heads and anemones; numerous parrot fish, grunts, chubs, and southern sennets;

Cathedral - starts in 10', drops to 35' into a mammoth room that resembles a cathedral, with the light playing off the walls to create a "stained glass" effect;

Devil's Blue Hole - 150' dive, for IANTD certified, to 215' and beyond;

"Demira" - 411' sailing freighter sunk in a hurricane in 1928 in 30fsw; last of its kind built in Bahamas; mast is broken, but most of the ship is intact; many sergeant-majors; chubs, grunts, yellowtails;

Tombs - cave at 20' one exit, NACD certified only

Medusa's Lair - hole through the reef at 20' that breaks into a sea garden; hard and soft corals

Carousel - a colorful coral head about 100' across that you can swim in and around gives the site its name; many tropicals, jackknives, yellowtails and gray snappers

Mini-Drop - drop of 15-40' along the coral wall; gorgonians, sea fans, sea whips and fens, as well as loggerhead and hawksbill turtles, parrot fish, and the occasional stingray

Twin-Sisters - good spot for close-up photography; flamingo tongues, banded coral shrimp, arrow crabs, feather duster worms, Christmas tree worms, numerous tropicals;

Maxi-Cave Bay - barracuda, nurse shark, southern sennets, groupers, parrot fish; brain coral, elkhorn, an old wheel from an old wreck; maximum depth 30'

"U.S.S.Adirondack" - Union battleship sand in 1862, many cannon and recognizable debris; 30'

Train Wreck - two complete locomotives lie in 10'+, interesting UW photo site

Grouper Alley - 40', there were over a dozen grouper who used to play with divers until someone speared them; now there are still several grouper that are rather skittish, and rightfully so. Occasional sharks, turtles and tropicals abound, and a cave chute with banded coral shrimp

The Towers - entwining corals tower from a depth of 60' with an extensive cavern area at 30' filled with silver sides and yellowfin grouper

"Jolly Tar" - 60' ship in 85' behind Fowl Cay, and a Puffin sailboat in 60', both are now only remains.
 

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