Bermuda Sports & Outdoors Tips by grandmaR Top 5 Page for this destination

Golf, Sailing and Diving

The big sports in Bermuda are:

a) Golf which I have no experience or expertise to report.

b) Boating and fishing. I've always wanted to come to Bermuda on my own boat and explore the little islands and coves on my own. I am sure that you can rent or charter boats to do that - I just haven't done it. I'm sure there are fishing charters as well.

c) Diving and snorkeling. Even though I desperately wanted to take one of the glass bottom boat tours to snorkel, the water was a bit too cold for that and the storm on Wednesday stirred things up so the visibility wouldn't have been good.

The weather on the TV in the picture shows that the sea temperature is 72.2F or 22.3C. Anything less than 80 is too cold for my husband, and less than about 77 is too cold even for me to stay in for very long without some thermal protection

At the time I wasn't certified to do scuba and a resort course would have been about $100 IIRC. So I limited myself to an evening swim in the heated hotel pool.

Equipment: Bermuda Blue Water Divers are the only ones that offer diving in the winter. They have a lot of packages including a water scooter specialty dive (for certified divers) for $180 including all equipment.

The diving in Bermuda is largely wreck diving. If you are doing it in the colder months, you will DEFINITELY need a wet suit.

Address: Somerset Bridge facility 5 minutes from Dockyard

Directions: Bermuda Blue Water Divers have 3 facilities - in addition to the main one at Somerset Bridge, there is one at Elbow Beach and one at the Newstead Hotel.

Phone: (441)-236-2495

Theme: Scuba Diving

Website: http://divebermuda.com/