Diving Grand Cayman

The Cayman Islands are a series of underwater mountain peaks surrounded by deep water. Consequently, their dive sites lie extremely close to the shore, sometimes even within swimming distance of it.

Grand Cayman's reefs offer a variety of marine life encounters.  These reefs are unspoiled and thrive in the warm, clear waters. The fish and wildlife are unafraid of divers, knowing we pose no threat.

Grand Cayman visitors can choose from more than 159 dive sites.  It is all in the Cayman Islands; steep, deep walls covered with corals and sponges in a wonderful array of colors.  Wrecks featuring photogenic structures and curious marine residents.   Shallow reefs filled with schooling and solitary fish and small invertebrates.

Grand Cayman's wrecks are also a treasure to dive and explore.  Most have been below the water for many years and are beginning to become incorporated into the the reef itself.

There is also the World's Best 12 Foot Dive...Stingray City.  What ever your seeking you will find it in the abundant waters of Grand Cayman.

Grand Cayman is also surrounded by walls.  Some walls drop into the turquoise abyss, while others gentley slope downward.   The walls are covered with marine life that explode into a rainbow of color and life.

There are 42 dive operations in Grand Cayman, 5 in Little Cayman and 3 in Cayman Brac and 2 liveaboard dive boats, the Cayman Aggressor III and Little Cayman Diver II.

A full range of professional dive services is available, include equipment sales, rentals and repairs and scuba instruction at all levels. In addition, there are seven full service underwater photography and video centers with E-6 processing services, including four on Grand Cayman, two on Cayman Brac and one on Little Cayman.

Stingray City has become Cayman's most famous dive site, located in shallow depths in Grand Cayman's North Sound. Here, more than 30 Southern Atlantic stingrays swim freely with snorkelers and divers in 12 ft. of water. The site can be reached only by boat.

A two-man double lock recompression chamber is located at the George Town Hospital, and manned on a 24-hour on call basis by trained staff from the Cayman Islands Divers chapter of the British Sub Aqua Club, supervised by a doctor trained in hyperbaric medicine.