Facebook
Twitter
On Grand Cayman, Sunset House has a long-standing reputation for delivering the goods to divers. In this case, the goods are a bar, a pool and a kickin' reef, all within a rock's throw of each other. Amenities aside, divers can grab a tank and hit the reef 24/7. Giant-stride off the funky iron shore beach into 10 or more feet of clear Cayman bliss. Swim through a patch reef and see turtles, squid, peacock flounder, angelfish and the occasional manta ray. The diversity is amazing. As the reef slopes down, stop at the 50-foot depth mark and view the statue of Amphitrite, a 9-foot-tall resident mermaid cast in bronze. Keep going and you'll come upon a small wreck. Go farther still and the reef really starts to fall away. You can follow the wall as deep as your training and good sense allow, but you'll never get so deep that you can't look up and see the water's surface as clearly as if you were at a safety stop.
More Information
Related Articles
The Curaçao wreck is beautifully encrusted with coral — and is home to a host of critters
Hawaii's Garden Isle offers a wild, lush experience
Whale shark festival celebrates the gentle giants
A final frontier in underwater discovery
With nearly 90 named dive sites — more than 50 of them accessible by shore — tiny Bonaire could keep any scuba diver underwater for a long, long time. Here are a couple of standouts from a recent trip — what are your favorites? Red Slave
The Northland region of New Zeland is home to a bounty of artificial reefs - much to the benefit of wreck-loving divers. Here are four of the most impressive.
Looking for an easy weekend get-away-from-it-all dive vacation? A quick trip to Grand Turk’s Cockburn Town, capital of the Turks and Caicos Islands, let me in on one of the best-kept scuba-diving secrets in the Atlantic.
The lagoon at Half Moon Caye is almost a miracle in the noon sunlight, bluer than seems possible. We’ve just come ashore and walked down the jetty to the sand, to a short path that ends at a viewing platform. We can hear sharp squawks from the red-footed booby chicks long before we see them.
With clear, calm waters, prolific reefs and a huge diversity of marine life, the Maldives provides all you could ever want in a live-aboard diving experience. With its breathtakingly lovely backdrop of scattered atolls with turquoise lagoons and coconut-palmed, white-sand islands, the picture-postcard cliché definitely applies.
Imagine returning from a dive on Cannibal Rock in the southern region of Komodo National Park and being greeted by wooden masts rising beside the verdant, cloud-capped hillsides, your ship’s handsome traditional profile a reflection of Indonesia’s distinguished boatbuilding heritage.
