Stingray City
Billed as 'the world's greatest 12-foot dive', a shallow 3–5 m site inside Grand Cayman's North Sound.
- Open Water
Open Water≤18 m
Sunset Reef (East End)
Dive site in Cayman Islands
East End's checkout reef: a flat sand bottom no deeper than 22 ft, packed with critters for macro fans.
- Usual dive
- 7 m
- Deepest point
- 18 m
- Level
- Open Water
- Best months
- Dec–Apr
The dive
A reef and macro dive. Known for macro life.
Who it's for
Open Water≤18 mSource: oceanfrontiers.com
Recommended minimum: Open Water (PADI Open Water, CMAS/FFESSM N1).
Conditions
- Dive type
- Reef, Macro
- Environment
- Open water
- Water
- Sea water
What you might see
- Macro life
Season in Cayman Islands
- J
- F
- M
- A
- M
- J
- J
- A
- S
- O
- N
- D
- Best
- Good
- Possible
- Closed
- Not documented yet
Best months: Dec–Apr.
Source: dive-the-world.comWhere is the Cayman Islands?
The point shows the Cayman Islands area, not the exact dive site.
More dives in Cayman Islands
Wreck
down to 34 m
MV Captain Keith Tibbetts
- Advanced
- Turtles
Wreck
down to 23 m
USS Kittiwake
A former US Navy submarine-rescue ship sunk as an artificial reef in 2011, now home to hawksbill turtles, horse-eye jacks and barracuda.
- Advanced
- Turtles
Cavern
down to 12 m
Devil's Grotto
A George Town shore dive through sunlit caves and tunnels where, in summer, tarpon hunt huge schools of silversides.
- Advanced
- Silversides
Reef
down to 15 m
Frank Sound Gardens
Sunlit coral fingers on flat sand at under 40 ft, with a chance of eagle rays along the nearby channel.
- Open Water
- Eagle rays
Wreck
down to 15 m
Doc Poulson
A small, intact cable-laying ship upright at 50 ft, with schooling jacks, groupers and morays around her hull.
- Open Water
- Turtles
About this page
Values marked “Estimated” come from our original catalogue and are being checked against published sources one by one. Sourced values link to where they come from. Conditions change with the season, the weather and the tide: confirm with a local dive centre before you dive.
Photo credits
- Southern stingrays at Stingray City, Grand Cayman, Lhb1239, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
