Dive Review of
Pirates Point in
Cayman Islands/Little Cayman

 Australia, Belize, Bimini, Bonaire, Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, Curacao,
Dominica, Galapagos, Grand Turk, Provo, Red Sea, Roatan, Utila, Virgin
Islands 

Dive Conditions

The usual Cayman Islands 100 ft. first dive, 60 ft. second dive, come back
with 500 psi.  After 2 deaths on Little Cayman (different operation) this
year buddy diving was strictly enforced.    

New, larger rinse tank on boat.  First week there were 5 housed SLR's on
the boat and the camera table was a bit crowded.  Second week there was my
housed SLR and a couple of housed point and shoots and things were much
better.  

Overall Rating

This was our ninth trip to Pirates Point since 1995.  We now come every
year for 2 weeks.  Of all the places we have been my wife and I believe the
diving and food at Pirates Point are perhaps the best in the Caribbean. 
Since print subscribers can now access reports from previous years I will
refer the reader to those reports and not repeat what I have said in the
past.  I will mention that this year the variety of things to see was even
better than usual.  Besides the normal number of nurse sharks and large
variety of reef fish we had a pair of reef sharks that stayed at Mixing
Bowl for the whole 2 weeks.  There were 2 sea horses, the first green
turtle I have seen in a number of years, and only the 3rd Goliath Grouper I
have ever seen.  There was also an especially large number of Hawksbill
turtles.  I also want to point out the patience and caring of the dive
masters who went beyond the call of duty to help a single diver who, on
their first dive, obviously needed help.  The dive masters took turns being
this diver's buddy/teacher so that none of the other guests had to deal
with trying to accomodate this diver's needs, and by the end of the week,
the diver was a much better diver. 

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