For those looking for a LUXURY DIVE ADVENTURE, the All Star Aqua Cat is the answer. The full-service floating resort is considered the best way to explore the Bahamas because it solves the biggest challenge of the islands: the most beautiful places are scattered, remote, and hard to reach on day trips. Offering up to 5 dives a day, the Aqua Cat combines luxury with adventure. The live aboard offers an unbeatable atmosphere with quiet anchorages, remote beaches, sunset views every night, and zero crowds. Enjoy a more immersive, nature-centric way to see the islands with your favorite dive group!

Divers and non-divers enjoy shore excursions. The jet drive boat, Sea Dog, transports guests from AquaCat to shore for land-based activities, such as:

• Visiting Exuma Land & Sea Park

• Beachcombing on uninhabited cays

• Learning about uninhabited Bahamian islands during guided walking tours – history, nature, legend and lore

• Encountering local wildlife – sea and shorebirds, iguanas and yes, even pigs

• Relaxing on a secluded beach

Recreational Activities include:

• Kayaking along the beach and in the creek amid mangroves

• Learning or mastering stand up paddleboarding (SUPs)

• Snorkeling along the beach and in grottos and discovering life below the waterline

• Kneeboarding or tubing

• Jumping into the water from our make-shift tree swing

• Fishing for local favorites

Your trip includes three meals a day – breakfast, lunch and dinner – plus snacks. Each is prepared on board by the chef and highlights American and Bahamian cuisine. For the convenience and flexibility of guests, buffet service is featured for breakfast, lunch and most dinners.

The most formal event is a casual sit-down dinner on Thursday. Guests can choose from one of several entrees and wine selections. With advance notice, the chef can prepare special menus, such as vegan, vegetarian or gluten-free, etc.

The bar opens for those who aren’t planning to go on a night dive. Beverage selections include soft drinks, bottled water, wine, cocktails, rum drinks and local craft beer on tap.

The newest member of the All Star Bahamas fleet is the 102-foot long scuba diving liveaboard. Scuba Diving magazine voted it the Best Liveaboard in the world 3 years in a row.  The tri-level All Star Aqua Cat offers 11 passenger cabins – some of the largest in the dive liveaboard world, a spacious dive deck, a main salon for dining and relaxing, a sundeck with a panoramic view, and an alfresco bar.

The vessel cruises at a speed of 12-knots allowing, us to travel quickly between dive sites while her 35-ft. beam ensures a smooth ride. The All Star Aqua Cat provides divers a luxury experience, but with a comfortable and casual vibe. 

The Aqua Cat was specifically designed with scuba divers and adventure travelers in mind.

• 900-sq. ft. dive deck with individually assigned dive stations and storage

• 11 large main deck cabins with king, queen and over-sized twin beds and private baths.  

• Beds, bunks and pulldowns – flexibility for singles

• Main salon with dining/living room areas and an alfresco deck

• Upper deck with sundeck and bar

Non-divers can enjoy our land excursions and eco adventures as well as relax, read, and sunbathe. Do as much or as little as you like! 

All diving is done right from the Aqua Cat

• The Sea Dog, a 28-foot jet drive boat – perfect for shore excursions and eco adventures

• 2 dinghies for diving safety

Itineraries are weather dependent and tailored to best diving available each trip.

Saturday:
6:00pm board. Check in, dinner, unpack, orientation and safety briefing.

Sunday:
Depart before first light; offering 4 daytime dives and 1 night dive today. 

Monday through Wednesday:
4 daytime dives and 1 night dive per day/night in the Exuma Cays and/or Eleuthera. Shore excursions are offered daily.

Thursday:
4 daytime dives Captain’s Dinner with photo and video presentations; awards presented during dessert. 

Friday:
2 daytime dives. 
Return to Nassau 2:00-5:00pm depending on weather and travel distance.
6:00pm Farewell Cocktail Party.
Port night in Nassau! Dinner on your own. The evening is yours to enjoy in Nassau.

Saturday:
Disembark vessel by 9:00am.

Experience exceptional scuba diving like no other. The variety of dive sites in the Exuma Cays is truly unique. Because it can only be reached on a dive liveaboard, this underwater world is pristine and filled with an abundance of colorful fish, macro-critters, corals, sponges, fans, lobster and  sharks.

What makes the Bahamas and especially the Exuma Cays and, weather permitting, nearby Eleuthera so popular is the variety of diving – wrecks, reefs, blue holes, walls and high-speed drift dives. 

DIVE SITES:

• Lost Blue Hole

• Periwinkle Reef 

• Amberjack Reef 

• Austin Smith Wreck with Goliath Grouper

• Cathedral 

• Jeep Reef 

• Pillar Wall 

• Washing Machine, a favorite among divers

• Tail Wall

• Hole in the Wall

• Jakes Hole 

• Monolith Wall

Rates listed are per person, double occupancy. For single or triple occupancy bookings, contact your group leader at 318-381-7558.