Bahamas Aggressor

The Bahamas Aggressor is a 100ft (30m) mono-hulled motor yacht running week long, Saturday to Saturday liveaboard cruises around the best dive sites of the Bahamas. You can experience this incredible island chain that runs from off the coast of Florida to the heart of the Caribbean. With a maximum of only 14 guests on board you can be sure of small groups of divers and plenty of personal attention on board.

All the modern comforts are present such as TV, DVD and music system in the air-conditioned saloon and dining area, plus a hot tub on the sun deck. Nitrox is available and photographers will appreciate the complete photo and video editing center in the saloon. The dive deck also features a camera table with low pressure air hoses, as well as 2 hot showers for rinsing off after each dive. All scuba diving is done from the mothership.

In addition to wonderful Caribbean style diving, you can expect plenty of tasty food too featuring a variety of American dishes, BBQs and local specialties. Dinners are full service affairs while breakfast and lunch are buffet style. The chef also prepares homemade bread and desserts on a daily basis. The charter price includes fruit juices, soft drinks, iced water, iced tea, coffee, and a limited selection of local beer and wine. Due to the high duty charged on liquor, we suggest you bring your special brand if you wish.

The Bahamas Aggressor returns to port at approximately 13:00 hrs on Friday to provision and fuel. This is your opportunity to shop, take a Bahamas tour or just relax. The Bahamas Aggressor crew will host a sunset cocktail party on Friday evening. As with all the boats in the Aggressor Fleet, dinner is not served on board this evening and the crew will assist you with your dinner reservations and arrange transportation to a local restaurant.

Special offers: For special discounted prices, check the yellow highlighted trips in the schedule above.

Notes: Shark diving: All shark interactions are natural, passive and observational in style. The Aggressor Fleet foes not actively feed sharks nor chum the waters.

Dive experience: All Open Water-certified divers may join these Bahamas liveaboard trips.

Cruise price per person includes: Cabin accommodation, breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, drinking water, soft drinks, hot drinks, local beer and wine, dives (as detailed in the safaris above), experienced English-speaking divemaster(s) (max 14 divers to 1 DM), tanks, weights and weightbelts.

Cruise price per person excludes (mandatory, unless customer provides own): Scuba equipment rental (US$ 175 per week), dive computer, diving insurance (see our insurance program for a competitive quotation), port and park fees (US$ 110 per 7 night trip and US$ 158 per 10 night trip), restaurant meal on final evening. Unless otherwise stated, all the listed items need to be paid on arrival (cash or credit card).

Optional extras: Transfers to the boat from the airport/hotel/port, alcoholic drinks, nitrox fills for enriched air certified divers (US$ 100 per person per cruise), torches. Unless otherwise stated, all the listed items need to be paid on arrival.

How to get there: There are almost 2,500 cays and 700 islands (30 uninhabited) in the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, which lies around 56 miles (90 km) off the coast of Florida. Map of the Caribbean Sea. New Providence Island is where you will find Nassau, the capital city, connected by bridge to Paradise Island. The other port used by the Bahamas Aggressor is Freeport on Grand Bahama. Airports such as Fort Lauderdale, Miami and Atlanta are the main US gateways to both towns, while there are many flights from other US cities and other international starting points. Airlines include British Airways, Delta, US, American. Silver and Bahamas.

Elizabeth on Bay Marina in downtown Nassau is the main departure port for the Bahamas Aggressor, which is nearby Nassau International Airport. For some cruises the port will be Old Bahama Bay Resort in Grand Bahama not far from Grand Bahama International Airport (Freeport). Return flights from Nassau/Freeport to the USA are treated as domestic flights, which makes life easier for your onward journey as you can make "domestic" rather than "international" connections.

Arrival/Boarding/Departure: You should aim to arrive Nassau/Freeport on Saturday. Boarding the Bahamas Aggressor is at 16:00 hrs on Saturday for a 18:00 hrs departure to the night anchorage, prior to the first dives on Sunday morning. Return to port is after lunch on Friday afternoon with check-out at 08:00 hrs on Saturday morning. The crew will transfer you to the airport or nearby hotels. The last dive of the trip will be at around 12.00 noon on the second last day of the trip. Please wait at least 18 hours before flying after diving.

Diving Environment: A 3 to 5 mm full length wetsuit is normally the exposure suit of choice for Bahamas water temperatures: Summer 78-84°F / 25-28°C, Winter: 75-80°F, / 24-27°C (possible 72°F /22°C drop in January). Diving is conducted from the stern of the mothership. The variety of sharks is one of the Bahamas trump cards. You may encounter hammerheads, Caribbean reef sharks, blacktips, tiger sharks, nurse sharks, bull sharks and lemon sharks. You can expect walls and reefs teeming with marine life: stingrays, eagle rays, groupers, possibly dolphins and certainly plenty of macro critters. The macro possibilities include batwing coral crabs, spotted sea hares, flatworms, squat anemone shrimps, Caribbean reef octopus, Bahamian spiny lobsters and Caribbean hermit crabs.

Non-diver rate: US$ 200 off the full published price.

Single supplement (if you do not want to share accommodation): This is optional - single travelers may choose to share a cabin or pay a supplement of 65% of the normal published price.

Dive clubs and group discounts: Pay for 6 guests and 1 additional person can join the cruise in the Standard 4-share cabin free of charge (total 7 or more guests). See whole boat charter rate below, which is equivalent to pay for 12 guests and 2 additional persons can join in the Standard 4-share cabin free of charge (total 14 or more guests).

Whole boat charter rate (per night): US$ 3 534 per night.

There are 5 Deluxe double/twin bed staterooms (with a lower double bed and upper single bed) and 1 Quad 4-share stateroom with 2 sets of twin bunk beds. All staterooms have en-suite bathrooms and are on the lower deck.

All the staterooms have: No. of bathrooms / showers - 5 / 7 - hot water