There are many excellent dive sites off North Guana Cay. The Fish Bowl is a very popular dive site because of the spectacular fish including Black Tipped Sharks and Eagle Rays. The dive is 55 feet and many divers repeat this dive over and over because of the fish.
However, I have saved the best dive site for last. Until this past month this site was just a dive to see a garden of coral and the sea life which lives there. However, now it is the site of a wonderful Cave Dive and Tim and Kay call it Guana Coral Caverns. Tim and Kay recently became certified cave SCUBA divers as well as instructors. To be able to do a cave SCUBA dive, one must be a certified SCUBA cave diver. This dive offers six large caverns all of which have a front and back entrance with many holes in the ceiling for the light to come through. The two entrances afford the diver to be able to go in one entrance and out the other. All of the caverns have had ropes installed to their walls to assist on traveling through the caverns if necessary. I viewed a video of this dive and the beauty was awesome. The caves are very old. They are so old that the coral has grown over the outside.
The Skyscraper allows the diver to swim around or alongside skyscrapers of coral that can make you feel like the skyscrapers in New York City in 60 feet of water. The Skyscraper is home to numerous Jacks. The Sleeping Giant Dive is a dive with three spectacular coral heads rising from 60 feet below to within 5 feet of the surface. Want to see Tarpon? Then there is the Tarpon Tunnel off North Guana Cay. It is called the tunnel because divers can swim underneath the large overhangs formed by the reef. In the cavern you can clearly see where the fresh water layer meets the salt water (called aquasphere). The stalactites are huge and the beauty is really indescribable. Now that is all from viewing a video, to be down there in the caverns has to be a mind-blowing experience. Tim says the cave are solution caves formed from the erosion of salt water when the water was low years and years ago.
According to Tim, many divers want to see sharks when they dive. The Edge offers an opportunity to see large Reef Sharks swimming in their home. Beautiful specimens of Brain Coral can also be seen. This is a good night dive site as well.
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According to Kay most cave divers residing in the United States do not know that there are caves in Abaco or in The Bahamas. Most of them travel to Mexico and other more distant locales to dive. At a recent show in Miami Abaco Dive Adventures showed their video of the cave diving and this video attracted a large crowd.