Aqua Cat Cruises
The gin clear waters of the Exumas with the Aqua Cat
With a professional crew of 10 to see to the needs of our guests, nothing is overlooked. It’s not just the diving that keeps you coming back,…
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Aqua Cat Cruises
The gin clear waters of the Exumas with the Aqua Cat
With a professional crew of 10 to see to the needs of our guests, nothing is overlooked. It’s not just the diving that keeps you coming back,…
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Blackbeard’s Cruises
Divers working on skills and beach time between dives
The early planner gets the best deal when you book your December 10-16 2016 Blackbeard’s Cruise now, you can save $100 off the retail rate!
Blackbeard’s Cruises offers live-aboard scuba diving vacations to the Out Islands of the Bahamas. You won’t find a greater variety of diving- reefs, walls, swift drifts, blue holes, and shark dives! Our 65’ sloops depart Nassau each Saturday to the Exuma Cays. Colorful reefs teeming with marine life sit in depths of 15- 80 feet and our walls plunge to the depths! We offer our divers a combination of camaraderie and adventure- voted best value in the dive industry. Our all inclusive cruises are popular with outgoing individuals from all over the world! All meals, beverages, dorm style lodging and diving included.
Price $895.00
Package Validity – Start Date Dec 10th, 2016
Package Validity – End Date Dec 16th, 2016
Travel must be booked by Jun 1st, 2016
Website www.blackbeard-cruises.com
Booking Email Address info@blackbeard-cruises.com
Booking Telephone 800.327.9600
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Why do the Top 100 Readers Choice Awards, now in their 23rd year, still matter to divers? Because these are your picks, based on thousands of votes from the most experienced dive travelers on the planet. Why do they matter to us? Because every month you hear from our editors on what we think matters in the world of dive travel. For the January/February issue of Scuba Diving we get to listen to you, and we’re taking notes.
Here, we proudly present the No. 1 ranking destinations in the Best Underwater Photography category of the awards. The full list of winning destinations is below.
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Best Underwater Photography in Caribbean and Atlantic
It’s no coincidence that Grand Cayman is home to several photo pros, and is a favorite classroom for a handful of shutter-snapping instructors. Clear skies with consistent sunlight, plus the Caribbean’s famous visibility, grant a reliable baseline, letting you focus on the good stuff — adjusting settings to capture a tarpon just as the silversides all turn, sparkling. — Brooke Morton
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Best Underwater Photography in North America
Photographers can improve their portfolios in BC’s cool, marine-populated waters. There’s a wealth of colorful photo subjects, and many animals grow to epic proportions: giant plumose anemones, playful Steller sea lions, and the eight-tentacled crowd favorite, Enteroctopus dofleini, aka the giant Pacific octopus. Don a drysuit to ignore the cold, and focus instead on creating award-winning images. — Brandon Cole
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Best Underwater Photography in Pacific and Indian Oceans
The problem isn’t deciding what lenses to pack for your trip to Indo, but which one to bring on each dive. If you take a macro down to shoot pygmy seahorses, you’ll regret not having the fisheye for the massive mantas. You don’t just need a second camera system — you need a buddy/porter to carry a third and fourth. — David Espinosa
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Why do the Top 100 Readers Choice Awards, now in their 23rd year, still matter to divers? Because these are your picks, based on thousands of votes from the most experienced dive travelers on the planet. Why do they matter to us? Because every month you hear from our editors on what we think matters in the world of dive travel. For the January/February issue of Scuba Diving we get to listen to you, and we’re taking notes.
Here, we proudly present the No. 1 ranking destinations in the Best Wall Dives category of the awards. The full list of winning destinations is below.
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Best Wall Dives in the Pacific and Indian Oceans
Palau’s world-class wall dives, with sites such as Blue Corner, Siaes Wall and Peleliu Wall, attract more species to its Pacific waters than just divers. Sharks — whitetip, gray reef, silky, bull, whale and tiger — cruise the Micronesian archipelago’s plunging, current-swept cliffs by the hundreds, along with other exciting marine life, including Napoleon wrasse, dogtooth tuna and spotted eagle rays. — Eric Michael
1. Palau
2. Red Sea
3. Hawaii
4. Fiji
5. Indonesia
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Best Wall Dives in the Caribbean and Atlantic Ocean
Careful: That vertiginous feeling is addictive. That killer Cayman combo of sheer walls — especially at places like Mixing Bowl on Little Cayman — and unparalleled viz creates an environment where anything feels possible. Good news, it is. Encountering wall regulars like Nassau grouper and green sea turtles is a divers’ high in itself, but when factors align for magic in the form of a passing dolphin or hammerhead, it’s another high all together. — Brooke Morton
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Best Wall Dives in North America
Walls have it all — abundant marine life, drama and challenging profiles. And Washington has walls. Two stellar sites are Day Island Wall near Tacoma, which hosts wolf eels and octopus at depths between 25 and 100 feet, and Long Island in the San Juan Islands. Spanning depths between 70 and 120 feet, the Long Island wall is famous for its stunning strawberry anemones and is best dived during slack before ebb. — Brandon Cole
1. Washington
2. British Columbia
How We Got the Numbers Thousands of Scuba Diving subscribers and online users rated their experiences at dive destinations in a variety of categories on a scale from one to five. Final scores are an average of the numerical scores awarded. A minimum number of responses was required for a destination to be included in these ratings.
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