About Little Cayman

Little Cayman is famous for its scuba diving. The most famous dive site areas, Bloody Bay and Jackson's Bight, are both located on the north side of the island, just west of its midpoint. Bloody Bay is consistently ranked as one of the world's top wall dives with the ocean floor, which was proportedly based on a claim made by the late Phillipe Cousteau (citation needed). At its shallowest point in Bloody Bay, the drop-off goes a depth of 18 feet (Three Fathom Wall) to approximately 1000 feet (314m), in what is a near-vertical topology at recreational depths (and a bit beyond). The sheer wall dropoffs in Little Cayman, and Bloody Bay Wall in particular, has been a source of exaggeration, not of its degree of verticality, but of the depth to the bottom of the wall: local Dive Resort Divemasters typically claim the proximate depth to be 3000 feet or 5000 feet. While the local waters do go deeper than 1000ft, these depths simply are not as proximate to shore as is suggested or claimed; the 1000m contour (3000+ft) has been charted to be approximately one mile offshore on Little Cayman's South side, and 2.5 miles offshore of Bloody Bay on the island's North side (Ibid). These distances are generally beyond the normal range expected of freeswimming recreational scuba divers who are not Drift Diving or employing Dive Propulsion Vehicles. This exaggeration phenomenon also exists on Cayman Brac Walls