Bahamas

Caribbean

Scuba diving in the Bahamas is varied and exciting. With more than 700 islands in the chain that span more than 1,000 square miles, you will find incredible walls and pristine reefs. More than 5% of the world's coral is found in the Bahamas; much of the water in the islands is less than 20 feet deep, allowing huge expanses of intricate reef systems.

Walls abound as well; many of the tops begin at 50 to 100 feet below the surface, and plunge to many thousands of feet. The huge area covered ensures that nearly everything found in the southern Atlantic finds its way to the Bahamas - sharks of all kinds, humpback whales, several species of dolphins, whale sharks and eagle rays and arrays of smaller creatures too numerous to list.

With a maximum elevation of 206 feet, the islands vary widely in history, atmosphere, and diving. When Christopher Columbus made his first landfall in the hemisphere on either San Salvador or Cat Island (depending on who you talk to), the 500-year residency of the peaceful Lucayan Indians quickly came to an end; since then, the Islands' proximity to Florida has caught the fancy of explorers and settlers, and today, divers and tourists alike.