Grand Cayman

[Bill Rotella]

Anybody know of any caves at Grand Cayman? I have checked with some leads, but to no avail. A tech shop offered me a deep wreck dive on the Carrie Lee which I will gladly do, but I would prefer a cave dive. Any information would be appreciated since I will be there in a couple of weeks. I'm on a cruise with the wife before my trip to Mexico in June.

[Mike]

Only been to Cayman Brac, I've dove some neat coral tubes there but I do think Grand Cayman has some sea caves.

The Caymans are a great place to go but expensive, Buy a beer in a bar & wait for your change to come back in Cayman dollars or rather cents, took the bar maid all night to explain the conversion factor, but she was good looking & I didn't' mind her coming back to explain it again & again.

Find a dive shop there & ask who will take you out, their all sea caves, & I don't know how much passage they have.

Good Luck & have a great time !

Mike M

[Jim Wyatt]

Anybody know of any caves at Grand Cayman?

I lived on Grand Cayman for about 5 years and never saw any underwater caves as we define them. There is a small dry cave out near Bodden Town, where locals claim pirates used to hide treasure!!!

[phreaticus]

There are a couple out off the perimeter road on the NE side....one we called Randy's Road Hole.....didn't go more than 150-200 ft. or so, the other was a cenote-like pool that was the cistern/water source for a local homeowner...water was clear, fresh, we finally convinced him we wouldn't "contaminate" his water, made a very short exploratory dive on single 80's....small, silty, decorated (very dark stained speleothems), din't go far, considering the lack of safe gear. I bet there are more, out in the unpopulated bush areas.

[FW]

I dove one near the little town of Hell. The small entrance had tannic water, and a layer of hydrogen sulfide. We only went in about 500', on 80s, with no exposure suits. We turned back at a minor restriction because we didn't want to get scraped up by the formations. It looked like it still "goes"

It was decorated, but the formations were stained, and you could see the stains were different above and below the fresh water layer. The main problem with that one is the land owner now uses it for a sewer. Probably polluting the ground water of the one phreaticus dove in

I wouldn't discount to possibility of a lot of cave under Grand Cayman. I remember when we didn't think there were any caves in the Yucatan...

Unless you want to dive in dependant 80s, or take your own manifold, sidemount is the best way since there is not yet any commercial cave diving there.

Unless you want to dive in dependant 80s ...

Freudian slip there, Forrest?

[FW]

Unless you want to dive in dependant 80s ...

Freudian slip there, Forrest?

I guess I need to add "Typo Kop" to your title