GreenForce Global Volunteering / Bahamas, an international NGO based in the UK conducts environmental research from its operation at Stafford Creek on North Andros, and offers 3-12 week dive training and marine and environmental science programs for conservationists, academics, students and other volunteers.

The Disney Cruise Line offers a variety of destinations including ; Europe, Panama Canal, Caribbean, Alaska & Pacific Coast, Bahamas, Mexican Riviera, Hawaii, and Transatlantic destinations.

Disney Cruise Line offers three, four and five-night cruises in the Bahamas ; seven-night Alaskan cruises ; seven-night Mexican Riviera cruises ; and seven-night Caribbean cruises.

The National Association of the Bahamas, located in Miami, offers primarily social opportunities for the local Bahamian American community.

This article is about the demographic features of the population of The Bahamas, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

The website allows to freely view seamless georeferenced nautical raster chart layers issued from different international Hydrographic Offices ( NOAA US, Linz NZ, DNH Brazil, SHN Argentina, SOHMA Uruguay, BSH Germany, NLHO Netherlands, WPL Bahamas ) upon Google Maps imagery. Additional free features are available for the user ( voyage planning, waypoint and route monitoring with transfer to GPS, bearing and distance calculations ).

The special features section of the DVD chronicles how much of the film was filmed as live action shots in the sea off the Bahamas, with live, wild sharks.

During the period before and after European exploration and settlement of the Americas ; including North America, Central America, South America and the islands of the Caribbean, the Bahamas, the West Indies, the Antilles, the Lesser Antilles and other island groups, indigenous native cultures produced a wide variety of visual arts, including painting on textiles, hides, rock and cave surfaces, bodies especially faces, ceramics, architectural features including interior murals, wood panels, and other available surfaces.

Recognizing the business potential of the Bahamas, they were the first to establish major resort development, and often offered above-average salaries to Bahamanian employees.

" Much of the pineland of western Andros is on hummocks of high ground … this isolation of pines by wetlands has severely limited their commercial potential and therefore they are among the largest pines remaining in the Bahamas.

Sir Harry Oakes, 1st Baronet ( December 23, 1874 Sangerville, Maine – July 7, 1943 Nassau, Bahamas ) was an American-born British Canadian gold mine owner, entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist.

Oakes soon proved to be a dynamic investor, entrepreneur and developer in the Bahamas.

The Bahamas is a stable, developing nation with an economy heavily dependent on tourism and offshore banking.

The Central Bank of The Bahamas states that it uses reserve requirements, changes in the Bank discount rate and selective credit controls, supplemented by moral suasion as main instruments of monetary policy, the objective of which is to keep stable conditions, including credit, in order to maintain the parity between the U. S. dollar and the Bahamian dollar while allowing economic development to proceed.

The WIFLP's political manifesto ( which formed its election platform ) advocated a democratic socialist society, maintenance of close contacts with countries with which the islands had strong cultural and economic links, encouragement of agriculture and tourism, establishment of a central bank to expand credit resources throughout the area, dominion status within five years, full internal self-government in all the unit territories, encouragement of British Guiana, British Honduras and the Bahamas to join the union and an international project for technical and financial aid to the Caribbean.

Cameron had originally planned to shoot on location in the Bahamas where the story was set but quickly realized that he needed to have a completely controlled environment because of the stunts and special visual effects involved.

Modern stromatolites are only known to prosper in an open marine environment in the Exuma Cays in the Bahamas .< ref >

SFM holds retreats for students at the Franciscan Mountain Retreat Centre at Mount Irenaeus, including BonaResponds — which sent nearly 300 people to the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and continues to perform relief work at home and across the county — and SIFE ( Students in Free Enterprise ), which has established successful business and education programs in the Bahamas.

A precedent was established with a similar humanitarian aid response by the Government of Canada following Hurricane Andrew when the Auxiliary Oil Replenishment ( AOR ) ship HMCS Protecteur participated in " Operation TEMPEST ", providing relief supplies and personnel in southern Florida and the Bahamas.

Most commercially collected ambergris comes from The Bahamas in the Caribbean, particularly New Providence.

Edgar Cayce first mentioned Atlantis in 1923 and later suggested that it was originally a continent-sized region extending from the Azores to the Bahamas, holding an ancient, highly evolved civilization which had ships and aircraft powered by a mysterious form of energy crystal.

In 2004, over half a million tourists visited The Bahamas, most of whom are from the United States.

With few domestic resources and little industry, The Bahamas imports nearly all its food and manufactured goods from the United States.

Most of the kinds commonly eaten fresh or dried, those of the genus Phaseolus, come originally from the Americas, being first seen by a European when Christopher Columbus, during his exploration, of what may have been the Bahamas, found them growing in fields.

On 19 December 2005 Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101 from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Bimini, Bahamas, with an unscheduled stop at Watson Island, Miami, Florida, crashed off Miami Beach, Florida.

Christopher Columbus, on his first voyage to the Americas, sailed south from what is now the Bahamas to explore the northeast coast of Cuba and the northern coast of Hispaniola.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of the Bahamas from the United Kingdom in 1973

* 1493 – Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what is now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.

Together with Tainos who crossed over from Cuba to the southern Bahamas around the same time, these people became the Lucayans.

The two island groups are in the North Atlantic Ocean, southeast of the Bahamas, north of Hispaniola, and about from Miami in the United States, at.

broadcasts from The Bahamas are also received ; cable television is established ) ( 1997 )

By that time the Spanish had been using first Indians ( the Lucayans from the Bahamas were particularly prized for the task ) and then Africans to dive for pearls around the islands near present-day Venezuela.

* Loyalists from New York settle Great Abaco in the Bahamas.

The first inhabitants of the islands now known as The Bahamas were the Lucayans, an Arawakan-speaking Taino people, who arrived between about 500 and 800 from the islands of the Caribbean.

The Bahamas gained independence from the United Kingdom on July 10, 1973.

Sometime between 500 to 800, Tainos began crossing in dugout canoes from Hispaniola and / or Cuba to the Bahamas.

Suggested routes for the earliest migrations have been from Hispaniola to the Caicos Islands, from Hispaniola or eastern Cuba to Great Inagua Island, and from central Cuba to Long Island ( in the central Bahamas ).

In 1648 a group from Bermuda called ' The Company of Adventurers for the Plantation of the Islands of Eleutheria ' which was led by William Sayle, sailed to the Bahamas to found a colony.

In 1666 other settlers from Bermuda arrived on New Providence, which soon became the center of population and commerce in the Bahamas, with almost 500 people living on the island by 1670.

Pindling ruled for nearly 20 years, during which the Bahamas benefited from tourism and foreign investment.

( 1996 ) The Bahamas from Slavery to Servitude, 1783-1933.