This is a rarely visited site, the southern tip of the west wall features a sand chute starting at 50 feet that slides past garden eels to a wall with multicoloured bushy black corals. A block of the wall about the size of a bar cabana has broken off, and divers can swim the crevice between the two while keeping an eye out for spotted eagle rays.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 18m

Bonnie's Arch is Cayman's Arc de Triomphe, a majestic entrance leading divers into a metropolis rich in marine culture. Coral columns and obelisks, basket sponge stadiums and gorgonian trees form the landscape of this city populated by trumpetfish, hogfish, grunts, French angels, blue tangs and tarpon.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 18m

Located at the southern edge of the West Wall. Years of diving and the effects of storms have taken its toll on the coral, but the sunlit tunnels are still a great place to swim with tarpon and schools of baitfish.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 18m

Grand Cayman's first resident pirate built a castle at the place now named after him "Great Pedro Point". This is a backdrop for the area's best deep dive. Two massive coral spires rise from the drop-off's dark nothingness to within 70 feet of the surface. Along their sides grow pristine stands of black coral and fans of gorgonians wide enough to cool the World Trade Centre. Turtles and rays swim past on their way to feed in the sand flats.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Experienced Diver - 50 + Dives
• Max Depth: 30m

Oro Verde, Spanish for Green Gold, obviously refers to the monetary value of its former cargo of ganja. Scuttled in the spring of 1980, this wreck is steadily maturing with a coat of sponge and coral. Its current payload of horse-eye jack, sea bream, jewfish, eel and barracuda will give you a high you won't want to come up from.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 18m

This site offers a wild marine life interacting with divers in such a familiar manner. It's an exhilarating, one of a kind adventure. The world's best 12 foot dive takes place on a sandy seafloor in Grand Cayman's North Sound. The attraction is numerous Southern Stingrays. Accustomed to handouts, they waste no time congregating under arriving dive boats. They're as eager to see divers and snorkelers as divers and snorkelers are to see them.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 18m

Trinity Caves is one of the old granddaddies of Grand Cayman dive sites and sanctimoniously so. Trinity is a divine congregation of French angels, eagle rays, rain bowed tropicals and turtles cloistered under coral vaults and candelabras of staghorn.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Advanced Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 30m

This dive site has for several years been the home to several hundred tarpon. The site is close to the wall with magnificent views. This was our second dive of the day, so we did not want to go too deep. Nice coral and fantastic visibility made this a good dive with more tarpon than you can imagine.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Advanced Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 30m

Swim toward the drop-off from the shallow mini-wall and you will pick up the narrow start of the namesake fissure in about 50 feet of water. Like an earthquake fault line, it deepens and twists into a wide crack in the table-top edge of the wall and bottoms out on a sand ledge at 75 feet. Divers can swim inside and follow the cave to the left to find Ben, the legendary grouper that enjoys a friendly chin scratch from divers. Big barrel sponges grow out from the sheer drop-off and you'll find lots of grouper cleaning stations manned by neon gobies.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Advanced Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 30m

From the hardpan shallows, deep sand crevices lead divers to the edge of the wall and spill over into deep fissures. Between visits to grouper cleaning stations, keep an eye on the deep blue for anything pelagic including sailfish and sharks. The sheer, craggy slope is decorated with black corals and yellow, green and brown tube sponges. Snapper, blue tang and Creole wrasse cruise the open water whenever spotted eagle rays, black tip sharks and big turtles aren't around.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Advanced Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 30m

The main feature at Nancy's is a coral pinnacle, rising to within 35 feet of the surface, partially attached to the main wall. A hole in the hardpan near the mooring leads to a cavern area behind the spire, filled with rope sponges and some of the last black coral left on Little Cayman. From there it's easy to spiral around the pinnacle looking for arrow crabs and anemones in the coral, as well as sharks in the deep blue.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 18m

This is one of the most photographed spots on Little Cayman, this site is named for two distinct features. The Gazebo is a large limestone arch at 80 feet, just east of the mooring, wide enough to swim through. The main Chimney is directly out from the mooring, starting at 75 feet and exiting near the wall top at 40 feet. A second, smaller ledge-and-chimney takes the diver from 40 feet to 30 feet next to the mooring pin.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Advanced Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 30m

This dive site is one of the most popular deep dives on the island; Lea Lea's features two narrow cuts leading out to the wall through the hardpan. Most divers choose to drift down one cut, slowly swim along the wall at 85-90 feet, and back up the other cut. The soft coral here is especially lush, both down the wall and in the shallows.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Advanced Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 30M

Sitting in an open sandy area, with coral reef nearby, the small cable laying vessel was sank for the purpose of a wreck site. Good growth on the wreck provides a home to many juvenile fish including the pygmy file fish. Look for bristle worms on the green tube sponge located on the vessels spotlight.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 18

The name says it all. The CAIV is moored in 15ft. of water, and the wall begins at 18ft. – and it is a shear drop. This portion of Bloody Bay Wall is full of pristine vegetation growing off the wall – gorgonians, soft and hard corals and all types of rope sponges. Turtles are often seen munching on a sponge or just swimming by at 40ft. Look for juvenile spotted drums and juvenile smooth trunkfish here.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 18

Water conditions throughout the years have helped form this section of Cayman reefs; specifically, all the passages which wind in-and-out of the hardpan coral. You will find the top of this reef rich in vegetation. Look for the elusive batwing coral crab hiding in the coral.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 18

Sunk as an artificial reef in 2011 The Kittiwake, a former submarine rescue vessel (ASR-13) rests 64 feet deep at the bottom and only 15 feet from the surface making her ideal for both divers and snorkelers. You can swim overhead and see the main decks and topography of the ship, plus take a look down the smoke stack that opens up straight down to the bottom of the hull and the engine rooms. There is no end of rooms to explore within this wreck.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 18

This site offers more fish than any site in Little Cayman. Schools of Bermuda chub, 3-spotted goatfish, snappers and grouper of all sorts can be identified here. The rubble of the shallows is home to an array of creatures, including the timid yellowhead jawfish. If you are more adventurous, make a cut through the coral fingers and end up on the wall (there are several passages covered over by coral formations). Lobster are frequently seen on the wall area. Turtle, spotted eagle rays and an occasional reef shark or nurse shark can be spotted at any time.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Advanced Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 27

Coral fingers, and small coral heads make this sight truly enjoyable for night diving as well as a day dive.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Advanced Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 24

The site gets its name from the large elk horn coral that forms the top of this shallow reef.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Advanced Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 30

Grand Cayman provides a wide variation of reef life and fish – everything from juveniles to spotted eagle ray and sometimes a shark. Depending on the side of the island you are diving, you will find dramatic walls starting from 50ft-70ft. The shallows will feature a “spur-and-groove” coral formation or sites that are more noted for their swim-thrus. More noted for its small reef life, don’t be surprised to spot a turtle at any time find a southern stingray feeding nearby.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Advanced Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 21m

The mooring pin is set in the middle of several coral heads, which can be traversed. Various snapper call this portion of the reef “home”. Cosmo the grouper can also be spotted in and around this site. Jackson’s Wall is a highlight with swim-thru's onto the wall. Once again, look out for Caribbean reef sharks. In the sand area of the shallow, a spotted eagle ray can be seen feeding.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Advanced Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 30m

This reef gets its name from the Lighthouse Restaurant in Breakers. This wall site serves as home to turtle, spotted eagle ray and the occasional reef shark.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Advanced Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 25m

Formerly known as the Russian Destroyer #356, this wreck has become a fixture for wreck dive of the Caribbean. Today, the boat lies in 40-90ft. of water. It provides a great backdrop for photos/videos, and offers some great penetration for the avid wreck diver.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Advanced Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 27m

This site is a gentle sloping reef formation that leads over the wall. Like many of the West Side wall sites, keep an eye open for the passing turtle.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 18m

Coral plates make up this site just outside the cut of Grand Cayman’s Rum Point. As all North Wall sights go, spotted eagle rays, turtle, channel clinging crab and lobster can all be found in this region.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Novice Diver - 20 + Dives
• Max Depth: 100 m

Found in the middle of the North Wall, this site was named for the coral formation that the mooring pin is set. You might see the elusive hammerhead here, but certainly keep an eye out for spotted eagle rays.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Advanced Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 30m

High coral wall formations help make these passages a beautiful site. Elkhorn and staghorn corals are found in the shallows. Families of lobster have been spotted on nearby coral heads.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Advanced Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 30m