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Feeding Sharks is totallly exhilarating
Stewart and Michael Cove along with Stewart's Brother Graham, have put together a dive operation that offer's the best Shark Feeding opportunity for photographers I've ever had the pleasure to enjoy. They offer a Shark Awareness Certification through PADI and a Special one for Instructors to become Shark Awareness Instructors. I've experience the absolute, rush, and high as I've observed these beautiful creatures take their food in a safe controlled environment.
Stuart Cove's Dive Bahamas is Nassau's leading full service dive resort. Originally opened in 1978, the operation has grown to a fleet of seven dive vessels, with five of the boats over 40 feet in length. Located on the southwest side of New Providence Island, Stuart Cove's is in the ideal physical location to take advantage of the diverse underwater geological formations. As such, dive sites are available for divers with no experience all the way up to expert-level dives including four new shipwrecks we have helped place in the last two years.
A wide spectrum of diving activities is available. Holiday travelers who have never gone diving before will enjoy the 3-hour "Learn To Dive Program". In this program guests will be introduced to the equipment used in the sport of diving in a swimming pool, receive an introduction into the basics of diving theory, and then complete their first ocean dive. All of this is done under the supervision of a professional dive instructor who is working exclusively with a small group of guests.
Experienced divers can participate in up to 5 dives a day. Two dives are offered in the morning, with two additional dives in the afternoon. An optional night dive is available on selected evenings as well. Dive sites encompass steep vertical walls that plummet to 6,000 feet of depth, shallow tropical reefs, 13 different locations containing ship or airplane wrecks, and numerous locations that were used as underwater movie sets for feature films.
The feature activities at Stuart Cove's for our divers are our "adventure dives". These consist of our Shark Adventure and Wall Flying Adventure programs. The Shark Adventure program is a 2-tank dive trip that takes divers on an underwater encounter with Caribbean Reef Sharks. On the first dive divers participate in a "free swim" with the sharks along a beautiful wall. On the second dive, the group forms up in a semi-circle on the 50-foot bottom and watch while a professional shark feeder enters the water with a box of bait. Upon reaching the bottom, the feeder begins feeding the sharks with the aid of a pole spear. To say the sharks come close to the divers is an understatement - they are everywhere!
Our Wall Flying adventure is equally fun. In this program divers utilize a fleet of underwater scooters to explore the expanses of underwater walls formed by the Tongue-of-the-Ocean trench that runs 120 miles long and 24 miles wide. Diving as a group - divers utilize the scooters to travel at speeds up to 2.5 knots underwater. During a typical Wall Fly divers cover roughly 2 miles underwater. During this time the support boat follows the divers bubbles and picks them up as they surface. Return to Home Page
experience. The staff at Stewart Coves,
to my knowledge, is the only place that
offers a program to become a Shark
Awareness Instructor, as well as, a shark
feeder.
This program provides the Instructor
with the ability and knowledge to safely lead
a shark dive. Yep, thats me in the middle,
got plunked in the head a couple times,
but for a thrilling adventure this can't be beat!
Stewart and Michael Cove along with Stewart's Brother Graham, have put together a dive operation that offer's the best Shark Feeding opportunity for photographers I've ever had the pleasure to enjoy. They offer a Shark Awareness Certification through PADI and a Special one for Instructors to become Shark Awareness Instructors. I've experience the absolute, rush, and high as I've observed these beautiful creatures take their food in a safe controlled environment.
Stuart Cove's Dive Bahamas is Nassau's leading full service dive resort. Originally opened in 1978, the operation has grown to a fleet of seven dive vessels, with five of the boats over 40 feet in length. Located on the southwest side of New Providence Island, Stuart Cove's is in the ideal physical location to take advantage of the diverse underwater geological formations. As such, dive sites are available for divers with no experience all the way up to expert-level dives including four new shipwrecks we have helped place in the last two years.
A wide spectrum of diving activities is available. Holiday travelers who have never gone diving before will enjoy the 3-hour "Learn To Dive Program". In this program guests will be introduced to the equipment used in the sport of diving in a swimming pool, receive an introduction into the basics of diving theory, and then complete their first ocean dive. All of this is done under the supervision of a professional dive instructor who is working exclusively with a small group of guests.
Experienced divers can participate in up to 5 dives a day. Two dives are offered in the morning, with two additional dives in the afternoon. An optional night dive is available on selected evenings as well. Dive sites encompass steep vertical walls that plummet to 6,000 feet of depth, shallow tropical reefs, 13 different locations containing ship or airplane wrecks, and numerous locations that were used as underwater movie sets for feature films.
The feature activities at Stuart Cove's for our divers are our "adventure dives". These consist of our Shark Adventure and Wall Flying Adventure programs. The Shark Adventure program is a 2-tank dive trip that takes divers on an underwater encounter with Caribbean Reef Sharks. On the first dive divers participate in a "free swim" with the sharks along a beautiful wall. On the second dive, the group forms up in a semi-circle on the 50-foot bottom and watch while a professional shark feeder enters the water with a box of bait. Upon reaching the bottom, the feeder begins feeding the sharks with the aid of a pole spear. To say the sharks come close to the divers is an understatement - they are everywhere!
Our Wall Flying adventure is equally fun. In this program divers utilize a fleet of underwater scooters to explore the expanses of underwater walls formed by the Tongue-of-the-Ocean trench that runs 120 miles long and 24 miles wide. Diving as a group - divers utilize the scooters to travel at speeds up to 2.5 knots underwater. During a typical Wall Fly divers cover roughly 2 miles underwater. During this time the support boat follows the divers bubbles and picks them up as they surface. Return to Home Page
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