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Mystery Cave (Stocking Island)

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Information only: Dive Exuma stops here to snorkel at the entrance. We found no dive centre that offers dives into the cave.

Source: Dive Exuma – Snorkel & boat tours (Mystery Cave Blue Hole) ↗
  • CertificationFull cave
  • SpecialExperienced divers
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What it looks like

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The dive

One of Stocking Island's famous blue holes: on Dive Exuma's snorkel tours you stop at the entrance of Mystery Cave and look in from the surface.

Many of the Exumas' blue holes pump massive amounts of water in and out with the tides (Advanced Diver Magazine, on the Exumas in general).
Source: Advanced Diver Magazine – Exuma Cave Expedition (Curt Bowen) ↗
Profile and sections

One of Stocking Island's famous blue holes: on Dive Exuma's snorkel tours you stop at the entrance of Mystery Cave and look in from the surface. Around the entrance a travel source names grunts, Atlantic spadefish and snappers.

According to the Grand Isle Resort blog the system runs right under Stocking Island and links up with an inland blue hole. We found no diving or expedition source that describes the cave beyond the entrance.

Practical: snorkelling at the entrance only, on a Dive Exuma tour.

Source: Dive Exuma – Snorkel & boat tours (Mystery Cave Blue Hole) ↗Source: Grand Isle Resort blog – Diving in the Bahamas: blue holes, underwater caves and more ↗
Depth and profile
Depth not published by a diving or expedition source; the Grand Isle Resort blog gives a maximum diving depth of 80 ft (~24 m).
Configuration
Unknown: no source describes the cave beyond the entrance.
Who can dive where
  • CaveAt least Full cave
  • Whole caveConfigurations: Backmount / twinset / Sidemount / CCR / Small cylinders / no-mount (speleo sumps)
  • Whole caveConfiguration unknown — research beforehand · doesn't decide who may dive
  • Whole caveExperienced divers only · doesn't decide who may dive
Experienced divers

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Source: Dive Exuma – Snorkel & boat tours (Mystery Cave Blue Hole) ↗Source: Grand Isle Resort blog – Diving in the Bahamas: blue holes, underwater caves and more ↗

How to get there

In Elizabeth Harbour off Stocking Island, across from George Town; by boat. Dive Exuma's snorkel tours start at Mystery Cave Blue Hole or Fowl Cay Reef.

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Sources

Source: Dive Exuma – Snorkel & boat tours (Mystery Cave Blue Hole) ↗Source: Grand Isle Resort blog – Diving in the Bahamas: blue holes, underwater caves and more ↗

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Certification requirements, configurations and trimix depths are estimates for planning. Always check them locally and dive within your training. Compiled from web research (Nov 2026): PADI (Angelfish Blue Hole, with text by Dive Exuma), Dive Exuma, the Grand Isle Resort blog, Advanced Diver Magazine (the Exuma Cave Expedition with Dr. Thomas Iliffe, undated), Wikipedia and the Bahamas National Trust. Angelfish Blue Hole's pin comes from PADI; the other caves have no published pin. Only Angelfish Blue Hole is a regular guided dive; the rest are known from expeditions and are listed as information. Certification and configurations are estimates. ~ = estimate.