Cayman Aggressor, October 1995, Gary Davis, Fairfax Station, VA. "Best diving experience ever. Boat clean, well run. Food ample and good. Diving superb. Crew helpful, friendly, accommodating. Dive unsupervised, most highly experienced with computers."

Cayman Aggressor, August 1995, Kathy Jobin, Abingdon, VA. "Thrilled with crew, facilities, food, service, diving - and Jim Church. Captain Bill and wife Yvonne made our week wonderful. Jessica cooked great meals and snacks and kept our health in mind. Professionally developed E-6 film so Jim could go over each roll with 14 students within 24 hours. Dive briefings thorough, safety emphasized. Max. depth 110 ft, computers needed for 5 dives a day, buddy teams. Stayed all morning on a site and PM on a different site. Learned great photo techniques from Jim. Patient with beginners and challenging for the more seasoned photographers. Had opportunity to use RS and different lenses and video. Molly the Manta, 3 nights in a row. Massaged groupers, fed apples to angel fish, frolicked with sting rays, had intimate conversations with barracuda. Conservation important to crew."

Cayman Aggressor, August 1995, Stewart E, Sands Point, NY. "Took my son, 14, on his 1st live-aboard, my 25th. Went with Jim Church. Capt. Bill and staff the most professional crew I have been with. Super week. My son is hooked on live-aboards."

Cayman Aggressor, August 1995, Vickie Hundley, Columbus, OH. "Due to high seas, captain graciously turned back to Grand Cayman where we dove a couple days before making a successful and calm second attempt at crossing. Little Cayman was exciting - two night dives with Molly the manta ray. Crew wonderful."

Cayman Aggressor, November 1995, Janet Fohs, Los Gatos, CA. "Easy dive, dive, dive vacation. Capt. Bill and Yvonne Spencer run a topnotch operation - always someone to dive with. Great photo operation: Alan Roberts helped with everything. Instructors Dan and Dave had hot towels available after deck shower. Warm snacks always available, unlimited diving; great macro, night dives. Fish adequate, corals and sponges magnificent. Critters: blennies, stonefish, crabs galore, lobsters, octopi (Caribbean blue), etc. Vis: 50­80 ft., water: 80°­82°. Would have liked better last day diving. . . . No supplement for single diver."

Cayman Aggressor, November 1995, Sherwin Isenberg, M.D., Los Angeles, CA. "Professional well run boat. Diving well organized. Catered to special dietary needs. Divers treated as adults. Enjoyed excellent photo help. Conditions somewhat rough. No large pelagics other than a few turtles. What has happened to sharks throughout the Caribbean? vis: 60­150 ft. water: 84°."

Cayman Aggressor, December 1995, Jerry Loveall, Fair Oaks, CA. "Diving terrific. Sharks: reef, nurse, and eight foot hammerhead), school of 75 Tarpons, turtle, barracudas, four wreck dives, dives every night, pre-dawn encounter with an octopus; extended it's tentacles onto my lime green fins."

Cayman Aggressor II, June 1996, Craig & Ruth Campbell, Long Grove, IL. "Unlimited diving to your computer profile. If your buddy didn't want to dive, a crew member would dive with you. Complete freedom to go where you wish and stay as long as you wanted. Required safety stops at 15'. Chain hanging over the side with auxiliary air supply. Crew kept log of diver's profile. Crew worked with divers who needed to improve buoyancy control. Crew friendly and helpful. Reefs at Grand Cayman show wear. Little Cayman outstanding. Species and quantity of fish not as plentiful as expected. 16 dive sites, two had current. Vis 80' with lots of stuff suspended."

Dreamward, June 1995, Michael Fronstin, Plantation, FL. "SCUBAmerica dive vacations including the luxury of a cruise ship. We boarded in Ft. Lauderdale, then to Grand Cayman, diving with Parrot's Landing, on to Cozumel and Safari Divers, and Blue Peace Divers in Cancun and then to the Bahamas; a private island, Great Stirrup Key. The Dreamward is a beautiful and elegant ship with fabulous meals, 'Broadway' style shows and casino."

Little Cayman Diver II, May 1995, Bob Schrager, NY. "Diving excellent. Vis 80­120 feet, water 80­81. Crew sets up tank, BC for week. Grab your fins, mask and weights from your storage locker, sit on the dive platform, put on your fins and mask, you are helped with your BC and roll into the water. If you wanted to be left alone, that was OK. You could dive whenever you wanted. Time and depth logged by the crew. Nothing was ever said."

Little Cayman Diver II, July 1995, Lee Ratcliff, Longview, TX. "Impeccable service; fewer passengers than most lovebirds (10-11); nice to luxurious appointments, excellent diving. Much hyped walls didn't measure up to their reputation (Belize and north side of Grand Cayman equal or excel) but still impressive. Boat worth the cost compared with excellent Aggressors/Hughes boats. Wayne exceptional in pointing out small or interesting life he had found previously at each site."

Little Cayman Diver II, July 1995, Alan Rothstein, Marietta, GA. "Best dive trip we have taken. Molly the Manta cruised by and saw my wife snorkeling; she turned around, came up and turned over to get her belly rubbed (Molly not my wife) then continued on her way. . . . Corals healthy, sponges vibrant, fish varied but not clouds of fish. Crew fabulous; made our trip hassle free. Roll off back of boat - when done, hand up your fins - your backpack is removed and tank immediately filled for your next dive. Only restriction: 110 ft maximum."

Little Cayman Diver II, August 1995, Jeff and Babette Burleigh, Otsego, MI. "Crew excellent, informative. Bloody Bay and Jackson great, but surprised at absence of sharks and eagle rays. Plenty of other stuff; underwater terrain very enjoyable. Food very good. Nice boat, although crowded on the platform if all ten divers chose to get wet at once; camera table inadequate if most divers were into photography. Totally enjoyed the week."

Little Cayman Diver II, August 1995, Carolyn Kimball, Phoenix City, AL. "Billed as 'luxury,' yet it comes off as worn, dusty, tired and in need of a facelift. Desalinator was broken most of the week and bilge pump broke, producing a vile and pervasive smell. Crew nice and helpful (a little burned out perhaps). The food superb and diving great!"

Little Cayman Diver II, August 1995, Peter Hartlove, Longmont, CO. "Boat laid out well, fill tanks from hose at back deck - crew sets up tanks, clean the BC/reg inside & out after trip. Diving good: 2 sharks, manta, not a lot of eels - water warm and fairly clear. Crew fantastic. Capt. Jeff worked his ass off with an inoperable water purifier (back in service later in the week); back up generator needed fixing. Chef Chris was great, good food, along with goodies. Val an upbeat divemaster - dive as you wish; Wayne has uncanny knack for finding lots of small stuff for you to shoot."

Little Cayman Diver II, August 1995 Stewart Kaslow, Maplewood, NJ. "Awesome diving. Flat calm with little current. Huge groupers and barracudas. Eagle rays and sting rays. Super service and excellent chef even to accommodate the weird diet of one crazy Texan. We got to enjoy stick-to-ribs country cooking."

Little Cayman Diver II, September 1995, John Sakson, Pennington, NJ. "Jon the Captain let us select sites, dive times and agenda. Twilight spawning dive. 5-star cuisine: fresh cookies, muffins, coffeecake. when you exit water. Limitless vis, stunning sheer walls. Each stateroom has its own head and cheerful and accommodating crew, combined with the finest diving this side of Micronesia or the Red Sea."

Little Cayman Diver II, October 1995, Amy Elliot, Yountville, CA. "Food awesome. Staff helpful, sweet; never had to lift a tank. They postponed meals so we could dive exactly when we wanted - tremendously flexible. Relaxed atmosphere, great diving. Vis: 60­125 ft. water: 82°­84°"

Little Cayman Diver II, January 1996, Lisa N. Neilsen, Omaha, NE. "If I hadn't received your review prior to departure, I wouldn't have known that deck towels were not provided and no alcohol is available: bring your own. . . . A/C in cabin 2 barely worked. Kept our door open for circulation. Potentially dangerous method of boarding boat; jump over a 2' gap between dock and boat and down (or up) about 3'. Lots of strong passengers helped us scared ladies make the leap. . . . Good: everything else. Best crew, food of any live-aboard I've been on. Best diving in Caribbean in terms of beauty, number and size of fish and fun fish encounters. Large grouper allowed me to herd him along under my arm for 20 minutes, scratching him all the while. Touched a 5' barracuda that followed me an entire dive. Saw turtles lazily swimming within 3' most dives. Three on one dive. 78°­80°F. Vis: 60 to 80 ft. . . . Crew of four accommodated special requests. I was traveling with "Blue Beary", my 11 yr-old niece's blue teddy, as part of her 5th grade social studies project on traveling teddy bears. The captain graciously wrote a note in Blue Beary's traveling journal and had his picture taken with the bear driving the boat. . . . When the crew found out eight of us were Nebraska Cornhusker fans, they arranged for us to be transported by dinghy to the beach driven to the Hungry Iguana on Little Cayman, the only bar on the Island with a satellite dish to get the Fiesta Bowl championship game. Crew members made two trips to Little Cayman during the week to develop slides for a photography couple on board."

Little Cayman Diver II, January 1996, Bob and Jenni Long, Columbus OH. "Cabin #4 has shower, tub and single upper bunk for storage. Food gourmet, equal to cruise ship meals. Chef fixed a late snack for me after a night dive. . . . Saw hammerhead, but fish life isn't as abundant as Bonaire, Bimini or Hawaii but wall makes up for it. Huge elephant ear, tube and barrel sponges, wire coral, black coral everywhere, lots of chimneys and tunnels. Helped us find specific critters: orange ball anemones, sailfin bennies, garden eels. Sit down on the dive platform and they put tank on you, then take it off when you re back and then a warm water shower right there. Dive your computer, stay above 110 feet, 5 dives a day."

Little Cayman Diver II, June 1996, Cathy Cockman, Greenville, SC. "Cabins small but adequate. Each with own head. Dive platform small but worked well with 8 passengers. vis: 100+ ft. water: 84°. Crew made sure we had the best trip possible."

Little Cayman Diver II, June 1996, Sharon Megyesi, OH. "1st time diving; excellent. vis: 60­80 ft. water: 78°­80°. Impressed with crew. I'm a vegetarian and they were accommodating; ate more than I do at home. Everybody was wonderful; crew knew exactly what they were talking about and answered our questions gladly."

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