Diving at South Eleuthera, The Bahamas
Ocean Fox Cotton Bay provides professional scuba diving and snorkeling from our base of operation at Davis Harbour Marina at the South end of Eleuthera. We strive to provide our clients with a highly personalized level of service and adapt to our clients needs as best we can. Generally we suggest four (4) to six (6) divers with an absolute maximum of eight (8), all accompanied in water by our Dive Master Daryl Miller and/or our PADI Instructor, Al Curry, on either Potcake or Underdog. PADI open water certification is also available through our instructor.
We offer a variety of dives; wall dives are a favorite of most of our clients, we can tailor the depth to you desires and skill set. Most of the wall dives start at around 50-60 feet of water and it's just ocean blue below once you reach the wall. On the way up from a wall dive it's what we call "rock wall climbing Bahamas style", a very unique experience. We have a couple of pinnacle reefs, commencing in 12-15 feet of water with a bottom at 55-60 feet. One site called the Christmas Tree is known for the opportunity to see reef, bull and black tip sharks along with large grouper, jacks, lobster and spider crabs, and, oh yea throw in a spotted morey eel now and again. You can dive the wall near the Christmas Tree, then dive the Christmas Tree on the second dive and finish the second dive with your three (3) minute safety stop on top of the reef observing the coral and fish rather than hanging on to the mooring line. Boiling holes are an underwater connection to the Atlantic Ocean through the cavernous limestone which allows deep ocean water to boil through on an incoming Atlantic tide. These are small blue holes, but offer enhanced marine life around them due to the clear colder Atlantic water. Depths range from 30-45' around the boiling holes with lots of topography and an abundance of beautiful tropical reef fish wanting to be photographed. We have several great Shallow reefs starting at 3-4' below the surface and going to 20-40 feet deep. These sites provide our clients with the opportunity to take the family and/or friends out even though not everyone is a certified diver. The other family members or friends can enjoy the marine life snorkeling while the balance of family or friends get the opportunity to burn some air.
We have a numerous other dive opportunities for very experienced divers, such as diving the bridge between Southeast Eleuthera and Little San Salvador where the water on either side of the ridge connecting these two islands is several thousand feet deep but rises to 30-50 feet on the bridge with the distance between the islands being some ten (10) miles. We also have dive sites on the West side of Little San Salvador, where the marine life has rarely experienced divers, with very clear water and beautiful coral. These types of dives are subject to weather conditions and require documentation of experience in potentially difficult open water conditions and experience with current drift dives.
We typically do two (2) tank dives for a trip, but we can do three (3) tanks dives along with lunch and perhaps throw in a beach visit as well. Just tell us what your group would like to do and we will do our best to customize the trip to satisfy you and your group, family or friends.