Life aboard the Cayman Aggressor
Captain’s Log October 6 2013
Water temp 85f+
Air Temp 87s + Thunderstorms
Vis 100ft+
Wetsuit Req: 3mm shorty
All our 14 guests arrived on Sat afternoon from all over the USA, Germany and France. Plenty of happy faces and were eager to get going, gear was setup in time for us to enjoy our BBQ dinner on the sundeck followed by our welcome aboard briefing and a goodnight’s sleep in anticipation for our upcoming day of diving.
Sunday. We woke to flat calm seas and blue skies! The wreck of the Doc Paulson was our first site, a perfect location for our check out dive! Check out any new gear, photograph the wreck, explore the drop off and generally get wet! The wreck of the Kittiwake was our second AM dive site here we get to explore the 300ft ex US navy submarine recue vessel, 4 wrecks for us to check out and find the hidden treasure as well as the beautiful wall. Stingray City was our next site, here we get the chance to be molested by these pesky little critters, plenty of fun was had and not to many war wounds were received. Babylon was our afternoon site before we headed to Little Cayman! The pinnacle s beautiful! Covered with tube and rope sponges and plenty of black coral. What a great day to start our week!
Monday. Randi’s Gazebo was our first site and here we enjoyed descending into the blue, cruising the drop off exploring the chimneys and swimming through the archway a sleeping nurse shark in on the ledge, a couple of turtles, scorpion fish, cow fish everywhere and a cruising reef shark. Meadows was the afternoon site and what a great afternoon it was. 2 dives to enjoy the shallow reef top! And explore the swim thrus. Cosmo the friendly Nassau grouper came by, so did an eagle ray, several turtles, nurse shark, school of squid and plenty of curious reef sharks. The night dive was enjoyed by many with all the usual suspects coming out to say hello including lobsters, crabs, trunk fish cowfish, eels, 3 octopus and a giant school of reef squid!
Tuesday, Lea Lea’s Lookout was our AM site. Here we get to enjoy the crevice that runs from the 20ft shallows out to the wall at 100ft! Today we were treated to 2 feeding reef sharks, another sleeping nurse shark, spotted drums, ocean triggers, free swimming green eel and plenty of friendly reef critters came out to play! 3 Fathom Wall was the afternoon site. 3 dive sites in one make for plenty of things to see!, Golden Coney’s. Queen Angle fish, sleeping stingrays, lobsters, rainbow squid, Nassau groupers, another reef shark, and a beautiful eagle ray all were spotted Wow what a great day of diving!
Wednesday .We woke to lake like conditions with flat calm sea’s and overcast skies. Two dives were enjoyed by all exploring the many different areas of Nancy’s Cup Of Tea, Plenty of sharks, several turtles, schooling jacks, grouper cleaning stations, a shear wall and several old lost anchors were all enjoyed! For the PM dives we moved over to our favorite site Bus Stop! You name it we saw! Eagle rays, sharks, turtles, groupers, stingrays, lobsters, channel crabs, green eels, spotted eels. The hunt for the “sailfin Blennie” was successful as well as spotting a couple of Pistol shrimp The dusk dive was awesome with all the usual suspects including reef squid, lobsters and another turtle!
Thursday. An early before dawn start to our day today. 8 Gung Ho divers jumped in before the sun came up to see a reverse night-dive.. What a great way to start the day an easy swim along the wall, a couple of turtles and watching the sun come up from 60ft down! MMM. And breakfast always tastes sooo much better! Donna’s delight was up next! Another shear wall and shallow reef to keep everyone busy!“ Great wall” for the afternoon dives. Here we have Freddie and his band of very friendly groupers, more turtles, spotted drums, yellow rays and of course the shear wall! Back to GCM on calm sea’s and chef Alan’s farewell dinner.
Friday. Just 2 dives left to enjoy today! The first being an incredible wall dive at “Big Tunnels” Here we get to explore several swim thru’s, cuts, crevices and tunnels leading to the edge of the 6000ft drop off! As always Devils Grotto was our last dive of the week and is always a favorite. All that’s left to do is wash our gear and get ready for a cold drink or two at the farewell party. Great to see many familiar faces onboard again, Congrats go out to Nikolas for completing his SSI Nitrox class, and to Kristi for completing her 200th dive on board! And thank you to all for making this another wonderful week of Aggressor diving in the Cayman Islands
Until next time……
Cayman Aggressor IV crew.
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