Dive Review of Bahamas Master in
Caribbean (General)/Bahamas

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Bahamas Master: "Close Encounters with Lots of Sharks !!", Mar, 2023, by Michael J. Millet, CA, US ( Top Contributor 96 reports with 59 Helpful votes). Report 12376.
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Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	This dive trip aboard the Bahamas Master was from February 27 thru March 8 out of Freeport, Grand Bahama. The schedule required an overnight stay in Fort Lauderdale on the way out. After boarding the vessel on 2/27, we motored down to Bimini Island for our encounter with Great Hammerheads. We spent 3 days with the hammerheads along with several large nurse sharks and a juvenile tiger shark. We had several very close encounters with the hammerheads along with the experience of “petting” nurse sharks. The lone tiger shark would quickly come and go. We also dived a couple of wrecks and did a reef dive. On 3/2, we did not have much action for hammerheads, so the cruise director advised that the winds would be increasing and suggested that we should move north to Tiger Beach. He failed to tell us that the dive area around Bimini was more protected from the weather than Tiger Beach. Bimini would have calmer seas and ... Subscribe to get the full story. Active subscribers continue reading here
Websites	Bahamas Master
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	All over the Caribbean; Galapagos, Socorro, Fiji, Solomons, GBR, Vanuatu, PNG, Philippines, Indonesia, Palau, Yap, Kosrae
Closest Airport	FPO	Getting There	In order to make dive boat departure, had to overnight in FLL on the way there.
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy, rainy, cloudy, dry	Seas	calm, choppy, surge
Water Temp	76-80°F / 24-27°C	Wetsuit Thickness	5
Water Visibility	30-60 Ft/ 9-18 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	Dive times were a strict 45 minutes per group following a very tight schedule.
Liveaboard?	yes	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	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
UW Photo Comments	See Above. ... Subscribe to get the full story. Active subscribers continue reading here

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Dive Review of Bahamas Master in Caribbean (General)/Bahamas

Bahamas Master: "Close Encounters with Lots of Sharks !!", Mar, 2023,

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Dive Review of Bahamas Master in
Caribbean (General)/Bahamas