Lucaya is a suburb of Freeport, Bahamas

Freeport, Bahamas

Freeport is a city, district and free trade zone located on the island of Grand Bahama of the North-west Bahamas. In 1955, Wallace Groves, a Virginian financier with lumber interests in Grand Bahama, was granted 50,000 acres Freeport is a city, district and free trade zone located on the island of...

 a city on the Island of Grand Bahama

Grand Bahama

Grand Bahama is one of the northernmost of the islands of the Bahamas, and the closest major island to the United States, lying off the state of Florida. Grand Bahama is the fifth largest island in the Bahamas island chain of approximately 700 islands and 2,400 cays...

 approximately 105 mi (160 km) east-northeast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, on the Atlantic coast. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 165,521. It is a principal city of the South Florida metropolitan area, which was home to 5,564,635 people at the 2010...

. Lucaya's Primary Industry is tourism

Tourism

Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes".Tourism has become a...

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Major hotels and attractions in the resort are the Our Lucaya resort, which includes both The Radisson and Reef Village properties,Pelican Bay Hotel and the UNEXSO (UNderwater EXplorers SOciety) dive charter operation.

UNEXSO was the first destination dive charter business in the world and now features a dolphinarium

Dolphinarium

A dolphinarium is an aquarium for dolphins. The dolphins are usually kept in a large pool, though occasionally they may be kept in pens in the open sea, either for research or for public performances...

 as well as a variety of SCUBA diving

Scuba diving

Scuba diving is a form of underwater diving in which a diver uses a scuba set to breathe underwater....

 charters including shark

Shark

Sharks are a type of fish with a full cartilaginous skeleton and a highly streamlined body. The earliest known sharks date from more than 420 million years ago....

 feeding dives.

Port Lucaya is a popular spring break

Spring break

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 destination with the socializing centering on Count Basie

Count Basie

William "Count" Basie was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. Basie led his jazz orchestra almost continuously for nearly 50 years...

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See also

• Lucaya International School
  Lucaya International School
  Lucaya International School is an international school in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island. The schools offers early years to grade 13 education to Bahamians and foreign residents.-The school:...
  
  
• Albert Tillman
  Albert Tillman
  Albert Tillman was an American educator and underwater diver. He is widely considered to be the father of diving education.-Biography:...