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Aqua Cat Cruises: "Easy diving from the AquaCat", Jul, 2022, by Mary K Wicksten, TX, US ( Contributor 17 reports with 8 Helpful votes). Report 11960.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	The AquaCat is very well organized. Dinners are buffet style served at tables within a lounge.Lots of choices, on-ship cook. Take your pick of beer, soft drinks, etc. Most cabins are comfy with a view window but I got the singles cabin--cramped, upper bunk very hard to reach and difficult to leave, no handhold, recessed ladder, little headroom over lower bunk. Divemaster gave sketches of each site and recommended places to see interesting creatures. Most dives easy sailing over coral patches with holes, cracks, etc. Lots of healthy coral heads but NO staghorn coral except in "coral farm" of regrown fragments. Sharks scarce except at staged feeding. Green turtles showed up on just about every day dive.Big schools of snappers,silversides,grunts and crevalle. Divers were advised to purge away stinging jellies near surface at night. Many divers wore only rashguards or just bathing suits. I sunburn easily and seem to be attractive to "stingers", so I wore a 1 mm suit and was comfy. At last word, one did not need a negative COVID test to enter the Bahamas but they wanted evidence of 2 shots. Restaurants asked for masks except when eating. If you like local art, visit the Straw Market. Be sure to check what you see--lots of fakes out there. I got really lovely carvings of a tiger grouper and a leaping dolphin.
Websites	Aqua Cat Cruises
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, Bahamas, Costa Rica, Galapagos, western Mexico, California, Hawaii, Fiji, Palau, Yap, Australia, New Guinea, Florida springs
Closest Airport	Nassau	Getting There	Flew non-stop to and from Houston (IAH).
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, cloudy	Seas	choppy
Water Temp	82-82°F / 28-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	1
Water Visibility	30-50 Ft/ 9-15 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	No deco diving
Liveaboard?	yes	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	Lots of opportunities to photograph schools,reef fish, nudibranchs and other tiny creatures. One can get interesting effects shooting through cracks or up through fissures. Many dives are fairly shallow so few glimpses of pelagic fishes (only one eagle ray).

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Dive Review of Aqua Cat Cruises in Bahamas/Eleuthera, Exumas

Aqua Cat Cruises: "Easy diving from the AquaCat", Jul, 2022,

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Dive Review of Aqua Cat Cruises in
Bahamas/Eleuthera, Exumas