Reef, Wall, & Blue Hole Diving
The Bahamas, and Grand Bahama in specific, have had long and distinguished history as a scuba diver’s paradise. James Bond’s Thunderball and the television show “Sea Hunt” were filmed nearby. As Deep Water Cay diving enthusiasts know, elaborate coral gardens, vertical walls densely packed with sponges and fans, blue holes, and wrecks allow diving with your choice of dorsal-finned creatures, the dolphin or the shark. Add tropical and pelagic fish ranging in depths from a few inches to a few hundred feet below our surface, and you’ll see why diving is so popular.
Walls, blue holes and reefs are among the most sought after dive spots, and you can find them close to our shores. Some walls plummet deep down into trenches that run adjacent to all of the cays. Descend slowly and take in the coral, the sponges, seafans, seawhips, and schooling reef fish. Stay focused and you may find black coral. Every wall is different, and even if you dive every day you won’t run out of interesting sizes, shapes, and marine life.
There is a greater concentration of blue holes in the Bahamas than anywhere else on earth. As you descend into one, you’ll be surrounded by a circular reef wall with crystal clear water. Some blue holes are in shallow water, others in inland pools, while still others are mile-long caverns. At Deep Water Cay there is a blue hole that is a 10-minute swim from the front office. The base material is limestone, which creates their vitality and life.
Diving is good all year round, but the best visibility is after the tropical storms have passed. You’ll find amazing schools of fish on our reefs, from groupers – the ‘national fish’ of the Bahamas – that congregate in large schools, to Sergeant Majors, Angelfish, Spadefish and the like. Come visit us in October and November. You’ll see the March of the Spiny Lobster kicks off with hundreds of lobsters marching in single file to spawn.
