Scuba Diving in the Cayman Islands – Walls, Galleons and So Much More!
By Mark J Burns
Located in the northern Caribbean Sea lie the Cayman Islands; home to some of the worlds best dive sites, and arguably the best diving to be found anywhere in the Caribbean. Dive sites including the world famous Bloody Bay Wall and Stingray City are known to scuba divers throughout the world.
Vertical walls line all three of the Cayman Islands, and there are currently over 100 named wall dive sites. However, although the main focus of the scuba diving in the Cayman Islands is the awesome wall diving to be found here, there are also a large number of wreck dive sites to be discovered including freighters and even a 475 year old Spanish galleon!
The Cayman Islands are in fact comprised of three separate islands, Grand Cayman, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac. Diving is possible throughout all of the Islands, although the majority of the dive sites tend to be focused around Grand Cayman, predominantly due to its larger coastline.
One of the more unique experiences to be had whilst scuba diving can be found at Stingray City, a shallow natural channel located off the northwest corner of Grand Cayman. Here, the natural channel has become home to a large population of stingrays, which wait to be fed by the approaching scuba divers. This is a genuinely unique opportunity to get up close to these beautiful creatures in their natural habitat, and is an experience which cannot be found anywhere else in the world.
For the fans of wall diving, the Cayman Islands are a true paradise and some of the worlds best wall diving can be found here. Although there are over a 100 wall dives in the Cayman Islands, without doubt the pick of the bunch is the world famous Bloody Bay Wall, which is located off the north shore of Little Cayman.
Starting at a mere 6 meters, Bloody Bay Wall drops off into the deep abyss, reaching depths of over 350 meters in parts. The site itself is in fact a series of separate wall dive sites, each offering supreme coral cover and formations, as well as good levels of marine life. Large Nassau groupers, shrimps, lobsters, jacks and queen trigger fish can all be found on Bloody Bay Wall on a regular basis.
It is possible to scuba dive in the Cayman Islands throughout the year, with only a slight variation in the water temperature. The visibility in the Cayman Islands often reaches in excess of an incredible 50 meters, ensuring some of the best scuba diving in the Caribbean.
Overall, the Cayman Islands offer some of the Caribbean's most unique and exciting scuba diving, ensuring that large numbers of scuba divers return here year after year.
Mark Burns is Director of http://www.Scubaworld.tv - a scuba diving web site, and a comprehensive source of information on scuba diving in the Cayman Islands
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Michael J. Smith is a Network Engineer by day and a SSI Dive Control Specialist by desire. He enjoys both warm and cold water diving. In his spare time he can be found helping students learn scuba. He and his wife maintain this scuba blog and store. They hope to share their passion for scuba with others.