Bahamas Diving – Wreck Diving

Scuba like James Bond

Go deeper down in the Bahamas while diving, and we’ll show you a mesmerising array of more recently submerged modes of transport that, in many cases, were sunk intentionally. Hollywood filmmakers started the trend, scuttling vessels off the shores of New Providence for the James Bond movies. The scaffold structure of the Vulcan Bomber from Thunderball, now encrusted with colourful invertebrates and sponges, is a favourite of ours on a wreck dive in the Bahamas, and we think you’ll love it too.

Explore tugboats and tankers

The underwater marvels don’t stop there! Over forty obsolete, broken or unwanted vessels - even a few planes - have been intentionally sunk in the Bahamas. Diving down beneath the surface reveals wrecks including twin tugboats at Walker’s Cay in The Abacos, the freighters known as Theo’s Wreck off Grand Bahama, and Willaurie, off New Providence.

Swim with planes

Off New Providence, you’ll be buzzing when you get up close and personal with a barnacle-encrusted Cessna light aircraft and the colossal 200ft tanker Calibe Breeze. There’s more than that in the Bahamas – diving around Paradise Island reveals the home of a lovely little supply vessel, a fascinating passenger ship and a mighty oil tanker, called the ‘Ana Lise’, ‘Helen C’ and the ‘Bahama Shell’ respectively – all lying side by side. Elsewhere, just off Bimini, the wreck of the Hesperus has become its own little ecosystem, attracting vivid shoals of fish, huge loggerhead turtles and teeming marine life.

Reveal the incredible Bahamas diving sites by clicking below

Nassau & Paradise Island
Grand Bahama Island
The Abacos
Bimini
Andros
Eleuthera/Harbour Island
San Salvador/Rum Cay