Dive Review of Brendal's Dive Center/Green Turtle Club in
Bahamas/Green Turtle Cay (Abacos)

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Brendal's Dive Center/Green Turtle Club, Aug, 2008, by Tripp Jones, SC, USA ( Top Contributor 72 reports with 29 Helpful votes). Report 4295.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$	N/A
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Comments	Our dive shop, Wateree Dive Center, of Columbia, S.C. brought 14 divers down to Green Turtle Cay for about the third trip, but this was our first. We flew from Jacksonville on Craig Air to Daytona to pick up a few divers and then to Marsh Harbour. The flight was about 1 1/2 hours overall on a 19 seat twin engine and was fine. After landing at Marsh Harbour, we had a 45 minute taxi ride to the ferry at Treasure Cay to go over to Green Turtle Cay. This is a ferry that runs on "real time" and not "island time" The taxi trip was about $20 pp (7 in taxi) and the ferry was $13 pp for 15 min. trip. This was not a negative transportation concern at all. The Green Turtle Club is nice, clean and food was good. Our package included breakfast, so we ate lunch on dive boat and in town 6 of the nights we were there. The rooms were clean and always made up by the return from diving. Golf carts are a must to get around the 1 by 3 mile island, especially to go to town to some of the local restaurants for dinner. Miss Emily's, Harveys, and others were really good and fairly reasonbly priced. I would go to a grocery store the first day and get soft drinks and to another store for reasonably priced libations, especially rum. Brendal's Dive Center does a very good job with the entire operation. Usually the dive sites were about 20 minutes away and we left every AM about 9 AM for a 2 tank dive. The dives were 45-65 feet with very long bottom times. I had a 97 minute bottom time and the shortest of the 13 dives the entire week was 62 minutes!! Brendal leads all dives and I know why he is called "Bottom Time Brendal". We saw many small critters that had not seen before. Brendal and staff do a great job of pointing out the "tiniest critters" possible. We saw a fair number of sharks, mainly reef and 1 bullshark also. Large grouper were plentiful and it was great to see that many around, especially with other places we have been. The coral was good, not great. There was some bleaching of elkhorn close to surface, but all in all, it was very good. Visibility was usually 40 to 70 feet, so it was OK. The trip back to Marsh Harbour was not a problem, but the Marsh Harbour Airport is certainly lacking in security. The flight back to Jacksonville was fine and the 5 hour trip back to Columbia is not a problem. Leaving the island at 10 AM and home by 8 pm is fine with me. This is a great place to go and we will return. The dive operation is superb and tooling around on a golf cart in perfect weather is a dream vacation.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Truk, Caymans, Belize, Turks and Caicos, Roatan, Cozumel, St. Kitts, Bahamas, etc
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, dry	Seas	calm, no currents
Water Temp	80-81°F / 27-27°C	Wetsuit Thickness	0
Water Visibility	40-70 Ft/ 12-21 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Recreational limits
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
Dolphins	1 or 2	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	My wife was pleased with photo ops.

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Dive Review of Brendal's Dive Center/Green Turtle Club in Bahamas/Green Turtle Cay (Abacos)

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Dive Review of Brendal's Dive Center/Green Turtle Club in
Bahamas/Green Turtle Cay (Abacos)