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Reef Divers/Little Cayman Beach Resort , May, 2009, by James A. Heimer, TX, USA ( Sr. Reviewer 10 reports). Report 4797.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	This was our second visit to LCBR and the first since the recent hurricane. The resort has been completely restored and the rooms upgraded with new paint, furniture, and furnishings throughout, including the bathrooms. We had a single room near the bar and pool; oceanfront studios are also available with partial kitchens. Due to our previous experience with the shuttle flights from Grand Cayman to the Sister Islands of Little Cayman and Cayman Brac, we arrived a day early on Grand Cayman to take advantage of an early morning connection the next day to Little Cayman. Due to the cargo limitations on these small planes, there is a high probability that not all of your luggage will make your flight. Flying early in the morning, before a connecting flight of divers from the US arrives, improves your chances that your gear will travel with you, and it will also provide opportunities on subsequent flights for Cayman Airways to get your gear to you. The resort has a lot of experience dealing with this problem, and your first day of diving may be scheduled around the arrival of the morning aircraft. The facilities at LCBR are first rate – boats are large and spacious, even with a full complement of 22 divers (we had 18 on our boat), there is plenty of room to store gear and an adequate camera table. Once you have geared up and been briefed on the site, you proceed to the rear of the boat and take a seat facing the stern. The dive masters (ours were Sharon and Alex) bring you your tank and BC, help you don it, check your air, and help you overboard. On the return, they take your tank and BC, swap the BC onto a new tank, and you are ready for the next dive. By the second day, they knew which BC (and camera) belonged to each diver. Roll calls were done before leaving the pier and before leaving each site. Dive times and max depths were specified – usually 110’ and 60 minutes on the first dive and 60’ and 60 minutes on subsequent dives that day. This was to maintain the schedule around breakfast, two morning dives, lunch, one afternoon dive, and dinner, with adequate surface intervals between dives. At the end of the diving day, the BC’s are left on board and other gear can be rinsed and stored in a well ventilated room near the dock. We had the same outstanding chef as two years ago, and the meals continued to exceed expectations with generally three or four entrees, fresh salads and homemade soups and desserts for lunch and dinner, and fresh fruit and a full “country” breakfast in the morning. You have the option of a full 3-meal a day plan, or a 2-meal plan, which allows you to buy lunch at the bar, if desired. All of the diving was on Bloody Bay Wall or the contiguous Jackson Bight, the difference being that the latter is characterized by sand channels and a less severely steep drop-off from 60 to 6000 feet. The soft and hard corals and sponges are in excellent shape, and the marine life – from macro blennies, pipe-, and jaw fish to eagle rays, turtles, and large green morays, along with the usual tropicals – is abundant. One of the dive masters provides an optional guided tour on each dive, and even less experienced divers will feel comfortable on these reefs.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Hawaii, Tahiti, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, California, Texas, Bahamas, BWI, USVI, Aruba, Bonaire, Australia
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm
Water Temp	81-83°F / 27-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	50-100 Ft/ 15-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	Each dive was specified as to max depth and duration, regardless of computer use; e.g., first dive was usually 110' for 60 min and 60' for 60 min thereafter
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	Boat had camera table but no rinse tank - could use fw shower after dives; shore had large dedicated camera rinse tank, but no facilities other than table in room for set-up; dive masters were good at getting cameras in and out of the water

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