A list of the best rated scuba dive sites in Cayman Islands.

Bloody Bay Wall

Bloody Bay Wall is without doubt the top diving attraction of Little Cayman, Cayman Islands. At its northwest side you will find this underwater ledge starting at twenty feet deep going down to a few thousand feet. The deepest part of the Caribbean Sea is Cayman Trough with its stunning depth of more than 22000 feet. It is a place with caverns, small caves and crevices for all kinds of critters to hide in. It is a colourful world with some of the biggest and most exotic sponges you have ever see...

Devil's Grotto

Just offshore George Town you will find one of the most popular shore dives on Grand Cayman. Devil's Grotto offers many swimthroughs, several huge coral heads among a collection of rocky grottos. You will often be intrigued by bait balls, big-eyed tarpon and schools of silversides. Unfortunately, the coral is less healthy than elsewhere and it is one of the places where the influence of diving tourism is well seen....

Eden Rock

Eden Rock is a shallow shore dive which features huge coral heads and towering pinnacles complete with some chimneys and many swimthroughs. It is extra appealing to snorkellers as you can feed the surrounding clouds of sergeant majors and yellowtails. You can reach it by setting up your dive equipment and enter the water through some staircases cut into the iron shore. Storms and tourism have taken its toll on the coral, but it remains nice diving nevertheless....

Captain Keith Tibbetts

A relatively young wreck dive is the famous MV. Captain Keith Tibbetts, a huge 330 foot long Russian Brigadier Type II Class frigate that was scuttled on the north shore of Cayman Brac in September 1996. The wreck is known by the name Russian Destroyer #356 and was built in 1984 in Nadhodka, U.S.S.R. She was built for the Cuban navy but the ship hasn't participated in any great battles as long as she was in service. When she was sold to the Cayman Islands, she was renamed Captain Keith Tibbe...

Stingray City

Stingray City is Cayman Island's most stunning feature. It is an area suitable for snorkellers and divers where you will literally find hundreds of southern stingrays swimming and hovering across the white sand. During the past decades they have been lured by the leftovers of local fishermen. They cleaned their catch of the day and threw the rest overboard. Today many divers interact with the rays and hand feed them with parts of squid. Once a ray smells that food that is brought into the wa...

USS Kittiwake

The decommissioned US Navy ship the USS Kittiwake (ASR-13) was primarily used to rescue sailors and crew-members from sinking submarines. This 77m long submarine rescue ship, launched on July 10, 1945 was part of rescue missions around the globe for 54 years (including Vietnam, Korea) when a collision with the USS Bergall in 1984 prevented her from continuing her important work. She became part of the James River Reserve Fleet also known as the Ghost Fleet because of their inactive duty. In her ...

Aquarium

The Aquarium or Killer Puffer at the west side of West Bay just offshore Seven Mile Beach is a must see if you like huge numbers and a wide variety of marine life. It is a bowl of fish caught in long coral fingers, walls of antler coral and waving sea whips and gorgonians. You will encounter all sorts of reef fish in all sizes and numbers. Some of the larger examples are wrasses, nurse sharks and groupers. Other species are blue striped grunts, pufferfish, snappers, goatfish, French angelfish, s...

Mixing Bowl, Three Fathom Wall

Mixing Bowl or Three Fathom Wall is a dive site where you can experience the vertical depths of Bloody Bay's wall dives and the great sloping reefs and sandy patches of Jackson's Bay. Among both mentioned names, this dive site has several other names such as Bloody, Jackson and Ball's Bay. Three Fathom Wall starts at a depth of three fathom which is approximately 18 feet, making this one of the few places for snorkellers to experience life on the wall. The west side of Three Fathom...

Marylin's Cut, Hole in the Wall

Marilyn's Cut or Hole in the Wall is a generally sloping reef until you reach the wall at 25 feet deep. A bit to the right you will find a lot of loose coral which looks like it has been cut off from the reef creating a hole in the wall. Marine life and several kinds of sponges are as its neighbouring dives, Three Fathom Wall to the east and Donna's Delight in the west, in one word fantastic. Among its vibrant marine life are two large resident Nassau groupers which have been named Ben a...

Oro Verde

The Oro Verde was a 184 ft long steel liberty ship that was scuttled off the west coast of Grand Cayman on May 31, 1980. Stories tell that the ship was operating as a Jamaican drug smuggling boat in its last years. She was removed from all sharp objects, doors and hatches were opened and then she was finally ready to be sunk at the ocean floor. She lays there relatively intact at her starboard side in some of the whitest sand you have ever seen. You can see patches of corals and sponges while gr...