Bachelor's Beach is a cove with a small beach, reached by steps cut into the limestone wall. The water is clear and the reef starts close in, but the steps and the surge make the exit the hardest part of the dive. Count on that beforehand, not afterwards.
Bachelor's Beach is an advanced shore dive on the south coast: steep steps down to a small beach, a reef top at five to seven metres and a slope to thirty metres, only in flat water.
From the little beach a short sand strip leads to a reef top at five to seven metres with finger coral and sea fans. The slope runs to thirty metres with sponges and black coral bushes. Schools of grunts swim in the cove, and now and then a tarpon.
In flat water and little swell. When there is surge in the cove, the exit over the last few metres turns unpleasant and, with tanks on your back, risky.
The steps are steep and heavy with full kit, especially after the dive. The beach is small and full with three groups. In surge the exit is the problem, not the dive. Small car park, no shade, no water, no toilet.
Decisions on diveability, technique and health belong with STINAPA, a dive school or a doctor. This page only describes the conditions.
The cove is cut into the same limestone terrace that forms the whole south-west coast. Coves like this once gave the residents of the southern districts their access to the water.
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