I went diving with Bahama Divers this October, unfortunately before reading the apt reviews here. Surly employees, old worn out gear, took us diving in 10 feet of water with a bad view. Waste of money! Use another company in Nassau like Stuarts Cove instead. I am certified; my girlfriend took their morning training course and joined me for the afternoon dive. She was given NO instructions before entering the water on the afternoon dive and was yelled at when she asked questions. Once in the water she joined the chaos of confused first time divers sinking to the bottom before the instructor got off the boat. They claimed the site “white-hole reef” was 15-25 feet but it was more like 10. Visibility was poor and currents were strong given the heavy chop only feet above. Altogether a terrible choice of dive site for the weather conditions. The coral wasn’t any better than random snorkel sites we found off the beach. I came up with 2000psi, and all the other certified divers were already back on the boat. Staff is rude and unprofessional, they blow you off when you point out leaking, damaged and unsafe equipment. In fact they were drawing lots for who would “have” to go underwater to guide us. Mostly they socialized, smoked, and slept while the paying customers looked on in disgust. No head count, no buddy system, when we were out of the water one of them muffled an “everybody here?” and then gunned the engine for home. And yes, hung off the back of the old diesel fume puffing boat in the water while the engine was on for some reason. The $69 advertised for a one tank dive for certified divers does not include an additional $20 for gear and $8 for a wetsuit you would expect to find on a homeless person. Their retail shop looks well stocked, but none of that gear makes it to the rental side. Air tastes bad, regulators leak, corrosion everywhere! Between the poor dive site, crappy gear, and surly staff who make you feel like they are doing you a favor by letting you dive with them…Worst diving experience I have ever had! Boycott them!

I went diving with Bahama divers in Oct. I figured since I had already did the dive with Stuarts Cove, I would give this dive operator a chance. I unforunately paid before reading the reviews. I was cruising and on the day I got there for a 2 tank morning dive, the weather was bad and the morning dive was called off. I was told to call back at 1 pm to see if the weather was going to cooperate for a afternoon dive. I called back at 1 and was told the afternoon dive was a go. First.. the 2 people in the show room ( which was nice ) seemed like they could careless that I had come to dive with them. After hanging out for 30 mins. one guy says you can go back to the boat if you want. I haul myself and gear back to the boat and 4 "characters" were already there hanging out.. one being the "captain" The captain sits there and says he doesn't know why they just didn't cancel the dive. So .. one guy tells me go get your gear ready.. I did and sat back down and ask where we were going and how deep the first dive was going to be. This is when I was told we were going to feed the fish at a claimed depth of 15-25 feet.What I actually got was a 15 foot dive. The operation was a total CLASSLESS act with the 3 guys grabbing their crotch every5 mins and showing off for the ladies by jumping off the boat and hanging on to the back. All the show boating and unprofessional behavior aside. The 1 dive master? left his only STUDENT to assist a snorkeler... 15 feet or not you don't leave a FIRST time diver EVER. I will give the guy kudos .. he didn't panic and was a pretty calm guy... He just doesn't know what he don't know yet.. Overall.. the best caribbean dive STORE I've seen, plenty of new stuff to buy, But THE WORST DIVE OPERATER I"VE EVER SPENT MONEY ON!!!! AVOID BAHAMA DIVERS AT ALL COST. I'd rather not dive than go with this operater again, oh and I'm sure I'll never see my refund cause I paid for a 2 tank dive and only got 1.

Diving with Bahama Divers was my first out of country experience with a dive company. I will never again dive without my OWN gear, or with Bahama Divers. The rental gear was horrible and should have been put out of service a long time ago. My father-in-law and I signed up for a two tank dive that was to visit the De La Salle wreck and the fish hotel. The De La Salle wreck sits in about 60 feet of water and is only a small section of the actual ship due to storms breaking her up on the bottom. The crew was comprised of a boat captain and three dive masters (two of which were in the water with us). They held a safety briefing with everyone prior to getting in the water and were strict (like they should be) over the total bottom time. They included a 3 minute safety stop at 15 feet just in case. So far all was well. When we started our decent my father-in-law had a VERY difficult time breathing air from his regulator, he felt uncomfortable with the dive and aborted in lieu of snorkling instead. I buddied up with one of the dive masters (who quickly abandoned me) and headed for the bottom. Once at the bottom I noticed a HORRIBLE taste with the air in my tank. I have been diving for 15 years and have never encountered such a horrible flavor with a dive tank. Thinking nothing of it I continued with the dive. During the dive I noticed my regulator was having a little issue with flooding. When I inverted myself to get a better look at some fish underneath a bulkhead the regulator completely flooded and I had to right myself in order to get air and not water when I took a breath. The wreck was so boring (it was my first wreck dive) that I surfaced with 2000 pounds of air left in my tank. Once back on the boat my father-in-law explained to the boat captain (Roscoe) that his regulator was malfunctioning and needed to be fixed. The boat captain blew him off! The second dive was very odd. We went to a place that they called the fish hotel. The odd thing was that we were surrounded by boats full of SNORKELERS!!! Why on earth did they take us to a place to dive when we could have snorkeled and saved some money?? The dive was so shallow that another guy on the boat complained that his dive computer wouldn't register the dive since it wasn't deeper than 10 feet! My father-in-law and I took to the water and instead of using our primary regulators we used our secondaries to see if they had the same problems. Sure enough the backup regulators worked just fine. However, the air in the tanks still had a HORRIBLE taste. After the second dive we got back on the boat and both of us suffered from headaches due to the air in the tanks. On the return trip back to shore my father-in-law told TWO different dive masters on the boat about the faulty equipment he had and both times he was blown off, the equipment was stacked with all the other gear (that looked alike) and was never marked or flagged for repair. I spoke with my local dive shop about the air in the tanks, and the divemaster believed that the tanks either had mold in them from moisture or there was something wrong with there compressor. Either way the air in the tanks was contaminated. Overall, I think I would chose a different dive company if I ever went back to the Bahamas, and I will NEVER EVER dive without my own gear again. My mistake was not speaking up about the contaminated air when I had the opportunity, make your voice heard and say something. Cause afterall it is your life that you are trusting in the hands of a company from a third world country. They just want the money.

I have been diving for 25 Years and have found the divemasters within the industry to be informative, caring and reassuring and helpful. All characteristics that make for a great experience under water. Unfortunatley Bahama Divers did not live up to that due to the actions of one individual and the lack of response by Bahama Divers Management. My wife (first open water dive since getting her c-card) and I were taken down to the reef by one of the divemasters. While under he gave us a nice tour of the reef but seemed to be taking a large amount of pride in showing off for my wife...to the point that he would take her hand to point things out to her and guide her under some of the ledges on the reef. The boat clanged on the ladder signaling for all divers to come aboard. At this point the divemaster signaled for me to head up but for my wife to wait. (understand at 60ft below it's difficult to communicate and I have always trusted the divemasters). I figured it was some more showing off...he'd show my wife something else and head up. Topside I waited for them and other stragglers. 10-12 minutes after the last divers boarded the crew of the boat sent a person into the water to see if they were visable at this point I was I threw on my snorkel gear and dove in as well. They were just 15 ft from the surface and macho divemaster was holding my wife close by the BC, constantly touching and adjusting things (cheap feel kinda stuff). I dove down and removed his hands and escorted my wife to the boat. When we hit the surface I asked if he had been "inappropriate" and she said that he hadn't. When we were able to sit down on the boat I was outraged...he kept her down much longer than the planned dive, he seperated buddies, and he was showing off to impress a customers wife. My wife said she was scared because she never knew until the very end where they would surface an that she realized they were down past the dive plan and there were no other divers under. We learned a lesson...we'll never seperate our buddy system and we'll dive our dive regardless of the dive masters "plan". We did contact Bahama Divers Management and asked for Calvin or Roberts (didn't get his name) Padi Number but they never gave it to us. They also didn't take any disciplinary action other than having him on another boat a few days later...we had porepaid for other dives. All in all it wasn't the end of the world but it made us a better dive team and since Bahama divers didn't take care of their own business I decided to let others know what our experience was with them. Last note...the dives were just okay and they do scrap the deeper dives if the winds pick up at all. We were supposed to dive the blue hole and the weather seemed okay to us but they said it might pick up a bit thus scrapping the dive. Take the time to ride to Stuart Cove.

Welcome to a place where you a greeted by a 20 minute line to pay, 15 minute line for gear, and poor service only to be put on a 35 foot boat with 20 others and ONE divemaster to go out and do a STRICT 30 minute dive......worth $120 (no food or drink)? There are smaller private charter companies on the island, CHECK THEM OUT

Ive been diving with Bahama Divers several times over the past few years. Everytrip seems to get better. The staff are extremely friendly and remember you year after year. Further, they take their job seriously while at the same time maintaining a friendly and comfortable atmosphere that anyone, novice or advanced diver, would be happy in. The rental equipment is average in quality so if you have your own gear i would recomend bringing it. They will gladly store your equipment in a locked room for your if you plan on diving on multiple days...this keeps you from having to lug it back and forth from you hotel. The dive shop was very impressive and much more than i would expect. Bahama Divers knows what they are doing and i would recomend them to anyone interested in diving or snorkeling. Keep an eye out for coupons in local activity advertisements, which u can literally find anywhere, and you'll get a free Bahama Divers T-shirt!

I've gone diving in Nassau with both Bahama Divers and Stuart Cove's. Bahama Divers is a smaller operation; as such, the experience is more personalized and has less of the "diving factory" feeling that you can get at Stuart Cove's. Another positive is that they are near the Paradise Island bridge, so you spend less time in a van if you are staying on the north side of the island. As for negatives, Bahama Divers has fewer and less interesting dive sites. The better diving is on the south side of Nassau (where Stuart Cove's is located), and the north side seems more suspectible to swell and poor visibility in winter/spring. When I dove with B.D. over two days recently, two deeper dives were scratched because of the swell, and they instead took us on shallow reef dives (20 feet) that were pretty boring. The divemasters at B.D. are young island types. They seem to know their stuff and are serious about their diving, but they have a more casual style than their counterparts at Stuart Cove's, which may be offputting to some. I have found divemasters at both to be very disciplined about dive times (ascending when air is at 1,000 psi and well before approaching no decompression limits) and about 15' safety stops (with Bahama Divers suspending a spare tank at 15' just in case). Both Bahama Divers and Stuart Cove's have pretty mediocre rental equipment that has seen a lot of dives. I had a regulator on one of my recent B.D. dives that was hard to breathe through. They happily exchanged it, but it took much of the fun out of one dive, and it shouldn't have been given to me in the first place. However, I can't say that the Stuart Cove's equipment is much better. Pricing at Bahama Divers is lower than at Stuart Cove's. Both offer complimentary hotel pick-up and drop-off. I did not do my certification with either company, so I cannot comment about the quality of their instruction.

I spent 8 days in Nassau in October and wanted to get my Open Water certification. DO NOT get dive/train with Bahama Divers. They will NOT send in your paperwork to PADI and will NOT return phone calls or emails. You will get nothing but a runaround after you finish training. Luckily I was able to get a copy of my paperwork over to a local dive shop and he was able to get my certiification card for me. This was after multiple weekly phone calls over a period of 2 months. They will ignore you after training!!!!! I noticed stacks of student training folders in the classroom during training and now I know why. I think they try to save the $30.00 they must pay PADI when they send in the records, but this is just a guess. Very old equipment. I saw my classmate's equipment have a catastrophic line failure while he was putting his BCD on in the water. Very, very well used equipment. Spend the few extra bucks and use the other dive operators in Nassau.

We had a great snorkeling experience. The reef included a ship wreck not to mention a rich marine life. The trip to/from the reef was also pleasant -- thaks to a very friendly/funny crew. And one more thing....heed the captain's request on wearing a life-vest even if you are an experienced swimmer. There are some currents that only a "olympic" swimmer can handle without a life-vest.

DO NOT USE BAHAMA DIVERS!!! This place is terrible!!! The divers would not come to the rescue when we needed help. Do not snorkel or dive with B.D. if you expect help in any dangerous situations. I am a certified diver who went with my family to snorkel. The boat took us out to a great site with lots of marine life. My mother ended up going a little out of the way. I went to go get her when we ran into trouble. As I was trying to bring her back, I noticed that the current was not on our side. The boat men told us there was a current out near the end of a rock formation. We were no where near the end of it, yet we encountered a very strong current. The waves were getting bigger and the current stronger. I realized I needed help getting my mother in. She was taking in a lot of water. I signaled to the boat that we needed help. What did they do? They told us to come in!!! This happened several times. I screamed help over and over but they still told me to come in! Now my little sister was panicking. I couldn't help anyone. If my husband hadn't been there my mother would have died. He used to be a lifeguard and somehow-I still don't know how-brought her in. I knew the only way to help my sister was to get to the boat. I could barely get there. I tried swimming across the current, but it seemed to be everywhere. The waves were too much for my snorkel and I had trouble breathing, but I knew I had to get back to the boat. I turned my mind off and kicked for everything I had. I finally got to the boat and yelled at them for not coming and to get someone to get my sister NOW. They FINALLY sent a diver to help her. The diver they sent didn't have a tank or air source or anything! The diver and my sister were scared. The current took them all the way out past the formation and to the other side of the rocks. I understand that current and choppy oceans can kind of sneak up on you, but there is no excuse for not helping/sending a diver in a bad situation. If you value your safety DO NOT USE BAHAMA DIVERS!!!