Dive Review of Stuart Cove in
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Stuart Cove, Jul, 2009, by Dan Clements, WA, USA ( Contributor 15 reports). Report 4965.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations	N/A	Food	N/A
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$
Beginners
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Comments	After reading various reviews of Cove's operations, I did not have terribly high expectations. It is a large operation, but I had several days to kill before a photo shoot. I was very pleasantly surprised. While this is a large operation, my dives with Stuart Cove were very fun and entertaining. There were no time restrictions, and the shark dives were very good. Having dived with Great Whites, I initially felt the Carribean White Tipped dives were way over-hyped. While these are fairly mellow sharks, there is a lot of action, and the sharks to bump into you. They are not aggressive towards the divers, they are trying to get to the food. On our dive a shark latched onto the sync cables of the Cove photographer and summarily destroyed them. I had a bit of a problem with flash positioning because the sharks would bump into my strobes and strobe arms. Bring wide angle and fish eye lenses! We had so much fun it is back again next year.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Florida Keys, Bahamas, Mexico, Monterey, Puget Sound, British Columbia, Galapagos, French Polynesia, Hawaii, Marquesas, Oman, Guadalupe
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm
Water Temp	79-84°F / 26-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	50-60 Ft/ 15-18 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	None
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	My rig is a large DSLR (Nikon D300, Subal housing, twin Ikelite 125 sobes), and Cove's staff were very accomodating of my gear. Large rinse tank, and constant reminders to divers not to use to rinse masks or gear. This was true for both the shark and other dives.

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Dive Review of Stuart Cove in Bahamas

Stuart Cove, Jul, 2009,

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Dive Review of Stuart Cove in
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