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Cayman Islands Travel Guide Hotels, Resorts, Diveboats, Scuba Diving Cayman Islands, Photography Underwater Cayman Islands,
In planning your diving activities, finding a compatiable dive buddy
for the type scuba dives is very inportant. The when, where, what, why, who and how need to be discussed before adventuring to a
dive site. This means discuss where to meet, when to schedule the dive, who is going to be your partner and who brings
what to dive site. Things like tanks and weigths, snacks and drinks. Next is set down the objectives of the dives,
what are you going to do on the dive, plan the depth, bottom time, air supply limits and discuss what to do if an
emergency arises.
With our two children, ages 10 and 13, we go diving weekly, after school, work, and on weekends. We are fortunate to live
within five minutes of some of Grand Cayman's most famous dive sites; Eden Rock, Don Foster's, and Sunset House. Right off
the sandy cove in our backyard is Armchair Reef. The reef begins at around 20 feet and the deepest area is at 70 feet. We've
seen as many as four turtles, and eight Queen Angel Fish on the reef at one time. We are never dissapointed in this great shore
dive, and the Underwater classroom it provides to teach our kids about marine life and coral reef conservation.
For the first time in over twenty-five years of diving I am able to observe the under water world all year long. It is a
facinating journey of seeing the ocean change with each season. In July 2006 the Silversides
usually show up in Devils Grotto at the Eden Rock dive site for about two weeks. This year they stayed for six weeks.
We promise to be your eyes and report to you on the changes, as we discover them, in our Seasons Of The Sea features.
During one weekend a large Goliath Grouper was there inside the swim through.Being about five feet long, (the size of a coffee table), it took time for my son and daughter to feel comfortable
getting close enough to see such a large creature. But they did and are still telling others
about it.
(You can see in this picture the relative size to Michael, one of our diving friends.)
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