What should a dive centre in the Bahamas run on?
The Bahamas is known above all for shark diving, with walls dropping into the Tongue of the Ocean, blue holes and wrecks alongside. Its shops are spread across many islands and serve resort guests, cruise passengers and experienced divers who come for one species. DiveOps runs the trips, the checks and the shop from one login.
The short answer
DiveOps suits Bahamian dive shops from Nassau and Grand Bahama to Andros, Bimini and the Exumas: it checks each diver's certification and medical before a shark or wall dive, plans boats by experience level, sells seasonal shark trips as dated trips, and runs gear, payroll and US-dollar sales, with a 24/7 WhatsApp AI front desk.
(opens full size in a new tab)Shark dives, and the right diver on each one
Bahamian shark diving ranges from reef and silky shark dives off Nassau to tiger sharks at Tiger Beach off Grand Bahama, great hammerheads at Bimini and oceanic whitetips off Cat Island. Some suit any certified diver, others call for real experience and calm in open water.
DiveOps sells each kind of dive as its own trip with its own spaces and price. Divers fill in their details, certification and medical form on their phone before they arrive, and a checked certification records who checked it and when, so the crew knows who is on the boat before it leaves.
Walls, blue holes and the Andros reef
Andros has one of the largest barrier reefs in the world and the Andros Wall at the edge of the Tongue of the Ocean, Long Island has Dean's Blue Hole and the Conception Island wall, and Nassau has the James Bond wrecks. Most of this is boat diving in warm, clear water.
DiveOps keeps one library of your sites, builds each boat's trip sheet from the bookings with groups by experience and guide, and publishes the day's plan to the crew and to a screen in the shop.
Seasons and the Exuma Cays
The great hammerheads at Bimini and the oceanic whitetips off Cat Island are seasonal, so their trips sell on a handful of dates. In the Exumas, the Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park, set up by the Bahamas National Trust in 1958, is a no-take reserve where all fishing is banned.
DiveOps lets a centre plan the season once: each seasonal shark trip goes on sale as a dated trip with its own spaces, and the same plan holds a fallback site for each day with live weather and tide for your exact spot.
A 24/7 WhatsApp front desk
Bahamian shops hear from divers in the US and Canada, often only a short flight away, and from Europe, at all hours. DiveOps' WhatsApp AI answers on your centre's own number through the official Meta Business API, replies in under 2 minutes, handles around 92% of routine questions itself and sends your booking link. A person at the shop confirms every booking and takes over any chat that needs one.
US dollars, payments and one plan
The Bahamian dollar is pegged one to one with the US dollar, which is accepted across the islands, and DiveOps runs bookings, the shop till, payroll and reports in US dollars. Payments can be taken by payment link with PayPal where available, or recorded at the desk, and centres get roughly 8 hours a week of admin back.
DiveOps is one plan with every feature, priced by the number of divers you run through the year. Book a demo and see it set up against your own boats, sites and shark trips.
Questions, answered.
Can we check a diver's experience before a shark dive?
Yes. Each diver's certification and medical form sit on their booking before they arrive, and a checked certification records who checked it and when. Advanced dives can be sold as their own trips.
Can we sell seasonal hammerhead or whitetip trips?
Yes. Each one goes on your booking page as a dated trip with its own spaces and price.
Does it work in US dollars?
Yes. Prices, the shop till, payroll and reports run in US dollars, which are accepted at par with the Bahamian dollar.
How much does DiveOps cost for a dive shop in the Bahamas?
One plan with every feature, priced by the number of divers you run through the year. The pricing page has the details, or book a demo for a figure against your own numbers.
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