The Cayman Islands is a Scuba Diving destination, it is made up of three equally beautiful islands surrounded by crystal clear, aquamarine waters teeming with a multitude of marine life endemic to the Caribbean.
If you are not content with admiring the bounty of the sea from the relative dryness of your boat, you can choose from over hundreds of explored dive sites in any of the islands.
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Grand Cayman
Grand Cayman, the biggest of the three islands, has several popular dive spots that feature beautiful wall dives and deep plunges.? Swim with the fishes, literally.? View the diverse marine life which includes parrotfish, eels, lobsters, and even octopus. North Sound is one of the island's main dive areas because of its many reefs that protect its bay.? This is also where the famed Stingray City can be found.? Stingray City has a sandbar with waist-high waters that offers you a chance to touch, play with, even feed the schools of stingrays swimming merrily by.
Little Cayman
Little Cayman, the smallest of the Cayman Islands, is home to the world-famous dive site with 3,000-foot vertical walls -- the Bloody Bay.? Different kinds of soft and hard corals are attached to the wall's face.? Sea fans and colored sponges also coexist with the corals.? Thousands of other sea creatures abound the area like tiny shrimps, lobsters, moray eels, brittlestars, sea cucumbers, and of course, lots of fishes in every color of the rainbow.? Stingrays, turtles, eagle rays, and small sharks can also be seen swimming near the wall.
Bloody Bay gets its name from a gruesome pirate battle that happened in the area long ago when government sponsored piracy still existed.? The numerous canyons, deep walls, chimneys, and tunnels can be hard to maneuver for beginners, so Little Cayman caters more to the seasoned diver who demands more thrills from each dive.? Most people who inhabit this tiny island are divers, so you can even share tips and stories with the friendly islanders.
Cayman Brac
Cayman Brac completes the Cayman Island trio.? Like the other two islands, it boasts of superb scenery underwater with numerous varieties of corals and fish. But unlike the first two, Cayman Brac offers other sights.? It is home to some ship wrecks, like the wreckage of M/V Captain Keith Tibbetts,? a Russian-built Cuban naval ship considered one of the world's best wreck sites, which are now a haven for many marine creatures.? The sunken frigate is on shallow water so even diving beginners can get to explore the stern to bow while viewing the new inhabitants of the ship.
If you are looking forward to a remarkable and exceptional diving experience, the Cayman Islands will surely deliver? enough to leave you breathless and wanting more.
