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Dive the best diving of the Bahamas in the crystal-clear waters diving with sharks and other amazing dive sites.

All-inclusive, fun and adventurous hostel liveaboard! With all dormitory style cabins, make life-long friends on an adventure you will remember. Blackbeards Morning Star is known to divers as the best liveaboard experience! A perfect liveaboard to make friends.

  • Perfect for Solo Travellers
  • Shark Feeding
  • Up to 19 Dives
  • Dive the Bahamas
  • Bunk Style Cabins
  • All Beverages Included

Blackbeard’s Cruises offers liveaboard scuba diving vacations to the Bahamas Out Islands. We offer the Caribbean’s largest variety of diving including shark dives, walls, high-speed drift dives including the Washing Machine, night dives, blue holes and the beautiful coral reefs of the Exumas Land & Sea Park. Blackbeard’s Cruises 65' sailboats depart Nassau, Bahamas every Saturday for a week of liveaboard diving in the Exumas, SW Eleuthera & Little San Sal in the Central Bahamas. The camaraderie and adventure on our liveaboard dive trips keep divers coming back year after year. Our motto is “Twice the Fun for Half the Price”….you won’t get a better bang out of your diving dollar anywhere else in the Caribbean!

Dive the Caribbean’s largest underwater park, the Exumas Land & Sea Park. Divers can experience deep sea diving on the many beautiful walls. Sharks are a big draw for divers! See Caribbean reef sharks, nurse sharks, even tiger sharks on the sandy banks! Colorful reefs teeming with marine life sit in depths of 15- 80 feet so divers of all levels enjoy the scuba diving we offer on our Bahamas scuba diving vacations! These dive sites are only reached by scuba diving liveaboards.

The central Bahamas were once the hideout of pirates and privateers… now, these islands offer spectacular diving in warm, crystal clear waters with deserted beaches as backdrop each week during our adventure travel vacations. Visit Allen’s Cay to feed the iguanas.

There is no set itinerary- we go where conditions and weather are the best to offer our divers an adventure of a lifetime! Scuba liveaboards offer the best variety of diving available- dive with sharks at Amberjack Reef, watch eagle rays gracefully glide by the walls, get tumbled around on our high speed drift dive, the Washing Machine or shoot photos of all the great macro and micro shots you’ll see in the gin clear water of the Bahamas .

Blackbeard’s Cruises is recognized by divers as one of the best liveaboard experiences available year after year! .

Scuba diving travel with us is a breeze! Our all-inclusive scuba diving liveaboard vacations are popular with outgoing individuals from all over the world! We supply everything but your personal gear and towels. .

Blackbeard’s Cruises offers top of the line high-quality rental gear for those who require it. Our sailboats, the Sea Explorer & Morning Star carry up to 22 passengers in dormitory style bunks. While there isn’t a lot of privacy, the fun, adventure camaraderie and more than makes up for it. .

*Does not include fees and tip for crew

Bunks Double

Blackbeards Morning Star has 5 rooms with double bunk beds. Each bunk with its own privacy curtain similar to a sleeperette on a train. Perfect for groups travelling together. Think summer camp for scuba divers!

  • Double bunk
  • Privacy curtain
  • Air conditioning
  • Shared baths and shower

Bunks Bow Singles

Blackbeards Morning Star has 4 bunk beds with single upper and single lower berths. Ideal for single travelers. Ideal for groups travelling together. Think summer camp for scuba divers!

  • Single Bunk
  • Privacy Curtain
  • Shared baths and shower

Route Options

Experience exceptional scuba diving like no other place in the Atlantic Ocean or Caribbean. 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.

Beyond the thrill of swimming with sharks in their native habitat, we offer a passive shark feed dive each week for our liveaboard guests. The feeds allow you to closely observe the behaviors of these magnificent apex predators. We have a site in the Exumas and another in Eleuthera area – so no matter the itinerary – you can watch this event and take photos.

Sample Itinerary

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.

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

Blackbeard's and Cat Ppalu offer the trip as a 6 night trip

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Vessel Details

Year Built / Refurbished 1983 - 2017
Length 65 feet
Cruising Speed 6 knots
Engines 137 HP Ford Leyman
Water Capacity 574 gallons
Beam 19 feet
Generator Isuzu 35KW
Air Compressor Available
Fuel Capacity 450 gallons
Tenders 1 – 12’ inflatable
Communications Garmin GPS, Furuno Radar, VHF Radio, Mobile Phone
Dive Deck Shaded Dive Deck
Camera Rinse Tanks Available
Dive Ladder Available
Diving Certification Available On-board with Fees
Regulator $50 per week
Buoyancy Compensator $50 per week
Wetsuits $35 per week
Dive Computer $50 per week
Dive Light Torch $30 per week

Available Experiences

Harbour Island

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Ardastra Gardens, Zoo and Conservation Centre

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The Gardens of the Groves

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Shark Area

New Providence, Bahamas

The arena is a sandy spot of few kicks away from the wall. The surrounding area is home to a community of resident Caribbean reef sharks. The arena is market with a semi-circle of stones in the sand which divers are placed when participating in the daily Stuart Coves Shark Adventure.

  • Dive Type: Boat Dive
  • Diver Level: Open Water Diver
  • Max Depth:

Shark Wall

New Providence, Bahamas

Top of the wall begins in 50’ of water and drops to a deep vertical wall. Coral formations consist of hard and soft corals as well as a large variety of tube sponges. This site is home to Nassau and Black groupers, Eagle Rays, Lobster, Stingrays and Caribbean Reef Sharks, Horse Eye Jacks and Green Moray Eels.

  • Dive Type: Boat Dive
  • Diver Level: Open Water Diver
  • Max Depth:

Lost Blue Hole

New Providence, Bahamas

The rim of this large blue hole lies in 40' of water surrounded by coral heads, sting rays and many schools of fish. There is a lobster filled crevice at 80'. In the sand surrounding the hole, divers will find many small fish such as banded jawfish, Seminole gobies and tobacco fish. There are usually 1 or 2 nurse sharks here and during the spring a large school of black nose sharks inhabits the bottom of the 200' hole. This site is normally visited on the way to or from the Exumas. This is the location of our first lionfish sighting.

  • Dive Type: Boat Dive
  • Diver Level: Open Water Diver
  • Max Depth:

Periwinkle Reef

New Providence, Bahamas

This is a shallow patch reef that is teaming with fish. The local Nassau operators feed fish here, so sergeant majors and angelfish will approach scuba divers looking for a handout.

  • Dive Type: Boat Dive
  • Diver Level: Open Water Diver
  • Max Depth:

Pillar Wall

Bahamas Diving , Bahamas

Pillar Wall is one of many excellent wall dives. It starts at 30' and slopes to 50' before dropping 5,000' to the bottom. There are many caves and crevices. There is a large colony of yellow head jawfish in the rubble inside the reef.

  • Dive Type: Boat Dive
  • Diver Level: Open Water Diver
  • Max Depth:

Jake's Hole

Bahamas Diving , Bahamas

This tidal blue hole lies in 20' of water. The highlight of this dive is the vibrant corals surrounding the hole. Because it is very tidal, scuba divers aren't permitted to enter the hole.

  • Dive Type: Boat Dive
  • Diver Level: Open Water Diver
  • Max Depth:

Eleuthera

New Providence, Bahamas

Most natural wrecks than any other island! Excellent reef and wreck diving. Eleuthera is a thin and long island east of Nassau with a beautiful landscape.

  • Dive Type: Boat Dive
  • Diver Level: Open Water Diver
  • Max Depth: 18m

Great Exuma Cay

New Providence, Bahamas

Located south-west of Nassau Island. Bahamas has a whole is a great shark dive destination but Nassau is especially highly populated and you can expect a to see a family of white-tip sharks and manta rays.

  • Dive Type: Boat Dive
  • Diver Level: Open Water Diver
  • Max Depth: 15m
Dates Duration Route Room Type Price
23 Nov 2024
29 Nov 2024
 6 Nights Exumas - 6 or 7 Nights Bunks Double £854
30 Nov 2024
6 Dec 2024
 6 Nights Exumas - 6 or 7 Nights Bunks Double £854
7 Dec 2024
13 Dec 2024
 6 Nights Exumas - 6 or 7 Nights Bunks Double £854
14 Dec 2024
20 Dec 2024
 6 Nights Exumas - 6 or 7 Nights Bunks Double £854
21 Dec 2024
27 Dec 2024
 6 Nights Exumas - 6 or 7 Nights Bunks Double £854
28 Dec 2024
3 Jan 2025
 6 Nights Exumas - 6 or 7 Nights Bunks Double £854