Page 269 - The British Big Four

WALL DIVE SITE ISLAND BEGINNING COMMENT
The Exuma Wall DEPTH
Whale Shark Wall
Whale Tail Wall Exuma 75 feet Directly off Highbourne Cay is a drop-off that faces the
Exuma 40 feet Exuma Sound. This is a vertical wall, 75 feet deep.
Great Lucaya Wall This wall is named for the whale sharks that have frequent-
Dean’s Blue Hole Exuma 40 feet ed this area for several winters. Like all of our walls, when
you stare into the abyss, you never know what you might
Cessna Wall Grand Bahama 80 feet see.
A great wall just south of Wax Cut. Large parrotfish roam
Long Island 5 feet the sand inside the reef while sharks & eagle rays are fre-
quently seen off the wall. We have had some very unusual
New Providence 60 feet sightings here like a Caribbean torpedo, one of only 4 sight-
ing of this very rare ray.
The southern coast of Grand Bahama Island is lined with a
continuous fringing reef and drop-off with hundreds of wall
sites featuring caves, caverns and swim-throughs. The top of
the wall usually begins in about 80 feet of water.
One of the world’s deepest blue holes is located off Long
Island and is surrounded on three sides by land. Blue Hole
is the world’s deepest blue hole and the second largest un-
derwater chamber, which dips 203 metres/663 feet into the
ocean floor.
where the plane used in the thriller Jaws IV is embedded in
the wall