Mares

Snapper Point - Cayman Brac

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Finger formation dive with colourful and healthy reef formations. Top of the reef is approx 30ft. Sandy channels at the bottom of the reef fingers. Max depth 70ft and often current. Lots of soft corals on top of the reef.

You may see lemon rays, lobsters, horse eyed jacks, angelfish. Trumpet fish and jawfish in the rubble.

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17m / 56ft

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Dive sites nearby

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Fisheries

The most westerly dive site on the north side of Cayman Brac. From the mooring pin, follow the mini wall past two sandy chutes and you reach a large pillar coral. Top of the coral is approx. 30ft/9m and reef floor sits at 50ft/15m.

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Double Wall

Double Wall is the first wall dive site on the North West End of Cayman Brac. Barrel sponges and colorful corals surrounded by all sorts schools of fish and turtles.

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Turtle Alley

Shallow dive site on the North West End of Cayman Brac.Colorful miniwall that starts at 30 ft flanked by silver sand and patches of coral at a depth of 55 to 65 ft.

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West Chute

North side dive site with wall drop off starting about 50ft. Sand chutes lead on to the wall drop off. A large pinnacle of coral stands between two of the edges of the reef wall.

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Lighthouse Reef - Cayman Brac

A close dive to the West End dock. Top of the reef is approx 20ft and in the sand it is about 45-50ft. There is an outer reef. The inner reef consists of multiple swim-throughs

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Middle Chute

A number of sandy channel leading to the reef wall and drop off. Top of the reef is an average of 50ft. Many cleaning stations and barrel sponges to be seen.

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East Chute

Beautiful wall dive site with a swim through and a small wreck. The top of the wall at East Chute is 45-50ft with sandy channels down to the wall. The Cayman Mariner wreck lies in the sand at about 55ft and home to a lot of macro life.

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Lobster Pot

Shallow dive site on the North West End of Cayman Brac. A sloping miniwall starts at 10m/30ft and meets the sand at a depth of 16m to 20m/55 to 65 ft. Abundant patches of coral surround the miniwall.

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Coral Anchors

Using the same mooring pin as Knuckles, swim towards East Chute (west) and you are on Coral Anchors dive site. There is an anchor sticking out of the reef at 80ft and another one at about 90ft farther towards East Chute.

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MV Captain Keith Tibbetts (Wreck)

This spectacular wreck lies on the northwest side of Cayman Brac but is also accessible by boat from Little Cayman. This 330-foot-long Koni II class frigate was built for the Cuban Navy by the Soviet Union in 1984. It was purchased by the Cayman Islands and sunk in 1996 as an artificial reef and dive site.

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