Phoenix Liveaboard - Bahamas

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Summer of 2018 we moved our fleet to The Exumas and we could not be happier. A beautiful Caribbean island puzzle piece consisting of more than 350 small islands and cays. Renowned for the abundance of sharks the area is seasoned with a fine flavor of wrecks, cave, and blue holes. If you care about marine life, you'll be pleased to know that dive sites in Exumas Land & Sea Park are protected.

Itinerary

Day 1: Saturday. Boarding at 11.00 AM. Check-in unpack, orientation, and safety briefing. 1 dive – Check dive – around New Providence

Day 2: Sunday. 3 daytime dives and 1 night dive today around Exuma Cays – Dog Rocks

Day 3: Monday. 4 daytime dives around Exuma Cays – Allan’s Cay

Day 4: Tuesday. 4 daytime dives around Exuma Cays – Highborne Cay

Day 5: Wednesday. 3 daytime and 1 night dive around West side New Providence

Day 6: Thursday. 3 daytime around West side New Providence. Return to marina around 19.00.

Day 7: Friday. 08.00 am Breakfast. 09.00 am sign off.

Note: Itinerary is strictly weather permitting.

Tour Highlights

✓ Explore the Exuma Cays, New Providence, and the Bahamas

✓ Up to 20 dives per trip

✓ Sharks, stingrays, angelfish, groupers, jacks, eagle rays, moray eels, lobster

✓ 100 dive sites, walls, drift dive, wrecks, and blue holes

✓ All dives with highly trained & experienced dive guide

✓ Dive from spacious skiffs

✓ 5-star catamaran, no crowds, max 8 divers

✓ Lounge area and shaded sun deck

✓ Introduction to diving and courses available

✓ Non Divers always welcome

Dive-sites:

Dog rocks, Up Jump To Devil, Barracudas Shoals, Pillar Wall, Jewish Fish, Crab Wall, Madison Avenue, Lobster, Blacktip Wall, Washing Machine, Whale Shark Wall, Shark Arena, Heineken Wall, Ray of Hope, James Bond Wreck, Twin Sister, Sea Viking, David Tucker Wreck, Sea Trader Wreck, Port Nelson Wreck

Teasers

Lost Blue Hole

The rim of this large blue hole lies in 40' of water surrounded by coral heads, stingrays and many schools of fish. There is a lobster filled crevice at 80'. In the sand surrounding the hole, divers will find many small fish such as Banded jawfish, Seminole gobies and Tobacco fish. There are usually 1 or 2 nurse sharks here and during the spring a large school of Blacknose sharks inhabits the bottom of the 200' hole. This is the location of the Bahamas first lionfish sighting.

Austin Smith Wreck

A 90' Bahamian Defense Force Cutter lying in 60’ of water that sank in 1995 while being towed to San Salvador to be sunk there as a dive site.

Highborne Cay

Dive with big animals, and get a change to be up close and personal.

COVID-19 TESTING

Testing for your home country

Testing is available at a local laboratory. It is located a walking distance from a marina (taxi is also available at additional cost).

Testing is done on a Wednesday of the trip. It is free for persons obtained Bahamian travel visa (subject to change without notice).

The nearest testing center: Bonaventure Medical Laboratory - Centerville, East Ave (Near Centerville Food Store), Centerville, Nassau

Testing for Bahamas

Pre-Arrival

For more information, please visit official Bahamas travel web-site

Tour Details

Duration

7 days, 6 nights, Liveaboard

Embarkation

(Loading of passengers)

Saturday 11:00am, Nassau, Bahamas

Debarkation

(Leaving of ship)

Friday 08:00am, Nassau, Bahamas

Price

From $1597 USD see schedule for details

Included

VAT
Food, snacks, coffee, tea
Skipper & mariner on board
Towels
Divemaster on board (no extra charge for dive masters)
20 Dives (no extra charge for dives per day)
Tanks, weights, and belts

Not Included

Flights
Gratuities
Transfers
Port fee 135 USD per person
Rental Equipment

What Divers Are Saying

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"Best reef diving I have ever done"

Spent a week aboard Phoenix sailing out of Nassau, Bahamas. Can't say enough good things about the entire experience. The vessel, the crew, and the diving conditions were all first class. The scuba diving was simply awesome. Exceeded our expectations on every level. If you could do only one trip...this is the one!

Max Green

September 18, 2018

"The best gift you can give yourself"

My wife and I wanted to book this cruise long time ago. As we were travelling through South America and The Carribbean for 4 months, they had a cancellation, and we jumped on it. We were already having a blast so to impress us this experience had to be something absolutely amazing. Well, to start with the boat, the Phoenix, is a place that feels instantly at "home", once you plant your foot. It an amazing state of the art vessel reworked for diving. The spirit of freedom fills the sails and gets you forward. Captain Oleg is a one of a kind, great fun and kind but also extremely knowledgable and reasonably strict when he has to be. He took us the round with the best diving spots we could wish for and he always kept it safe. The dives ... we dove 19 times since day one and they got better one after another with bright and big memorable highlights of a blue hole and shark encounters. Like I said we came in guns blazing and having a blast, but nonetheless the Phoenix tour blew us out of the gate.

We *will* be back.

Robert Goldstein

July 14, 2016

"Sun, salt and fun"

Greetings to you. My name is Samantha, I received your card from Santiago at the end of our wonderful week of sail/scuba diving aboard the Phoenix, with 6 guest's including myself and Petra.

We had so much fun we have decided we would love to return next December the same Christmas week, which would be 12/23-12/30/18. We also would like to mention your outstanding crew of Gines and Santiago. Together they work as an amazing team, the food and service for diving/sight seeing was amazing! The meals were versified and Petra had food requests that we're met without any hesitation.

Samantha Reek

December 31, 2017

Erin Nicole recommends Sail Tomorrow:

This was my first live-aboard experience and traveled solo. The Bahamas in itself is a beautiful county and the diving was topnotch. An abundance of sea life, including a variety of sharks, rays, grouper, turtles, crabs, lobsters, jacks, snapper.... the list goes on and on. Diving in Exuma felt like swimming through an underwater forest with large schools of fish, giant corals, sea fans and sponges, the reefs were VERY healthy. The boat was cozy and comfortable, with hot fresh water showers and private bathrooms. Captain Navado had great knowledge of the area, always providing safe navigation, history lessons and great sightseeing up top! Dive-master Ivo excelled on fish ID, underwater navigation, diver safety and comfort. He led us through endless swim throughs, wrecks, drift dives, shark dives and the beautiful Lost blue hole. Chef Anna made delicious meals, always creative and different. She catered to specific diets offering hot tea or coffee post dives with fresh baked goods, definitely well fed!! The moment I stepped on board the staff made me feel welcome and at home. We shared stories between dives and over an evening cocktail making them feel more like family in the end than staff. Highly recommend this live-aboard.

Erin Nicole

February 23, 2019 | Diving Tour

"We were already having a blast so to impress us this experience had to be something absolutely amazing."

Robert Goldstein