The Bahamas consists of some 700 islands scattered across the ocean, on the edge of the caribbean sea and the atlantic ocean. English is the offical language and the US dollar is the offical currency. Most of the population lives in Nassua on New Providence island or in Freeport on Grand Bahamas. The remaing islands are commonly referred to as the family islands.

The Bahamas offers so many options of where to dive and stay, the deciding can be quite a difficult task. The under water topography is very similar around many of the islands, a shallow reef at 3-5 meters, then a drop to another reef at 15 meters, and then a lower reef at 24-27 meters before dropping off into the ocean depths. The underwater topography mostly consists of limestone formations, created from a build up of corals. The Bahamas also has several blue holes, caverns/centotes which are fringed by shallow reef, that can be dived. Visibility for diving is always fabulous in the Bahamas, due to little to no island runoff, and the gulf stream continually flowing through and cleaning the water.

Given all this choice, below are a few possibilities to experience.

Andros is the largest of the islands and lies only 25 miles from Nassua. Andros features the blue holes of Andros where some of the tunnels reach unknow depths. Also the wreck of The Marion, a barge which has a mobile crane on deck is worth a dive.

Eleuthera which is known for its pink sand beach, features the famous Tram Wreck, a barge with railroad cars sunk in only 5 meters of water.

Exuma is known for its blue hole diving. It also offers excellent diving in Exuma Cays Land & Sea park, which has 177 square miles of untouched and protected underwater marine park.

Long Island offers diving access to the MV Comberbach, a steel cargo ship sitting in 30 meters of water, and still in excellent condition. Also Grouper Valley is known as a BIG FISH site where you can see 700 pound Jew fish. Also you can see shark feeding at Stella Maris Shark Reef.

Crooked Island and the Acklens are the southern most islands, which look like a sea horse when viewed from the sky. Most of the diving is wall diving with the wall commencing as shallow as 11 meters. Worth seeing is Grandpa Grouper, a pet grouper weighing in at 300 pounds.

Grand Bahamas with Freeport offers the best of all worlds for dive travellers, with superb diving, all the night life of a modern city (casinos and all) and the ability to escape the city to quiet idyllic tropical island locations outside of Freeport. Grand Bahamas offers access to Theos Wreck, a 228 foot freighter laying in 30 meters of water, where fang the 2 meter long moray lives. Also you can experience Dolphin Dive where dolphins will await divers to load before towing them out to play with them. (These dives are controlled by UNEXICO)