Recommendations for Grand Cayman

Will be in Grand Cayman on a cruise the first week of October. Any
recommendations on who to dive with? Have to 2 teenagers 15 - 18 newly
certified, and wife and I dive but have not been out in 2 years.
Thanks for all the help!
Pearl

"pearl" <dave@denbury.com> wrote in message
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> Will be in Grand Cayman on a cruise the first week of October. Any
> recommendations on who to dive with? Have to 2 teenagers 15 - 18 newly
> certified, and wife and I dive but have not been out in 2 years.
> Thanks for all the help!
> Pearl

Watch out in Grand Cayman, Pearl. They frown on homosexuality there, so you
and your "wife" should be careful about expressing intimacies in public.
Come out to California instead, where open lesbianism is not only tolerated,
but encouraged.

I'd recommend Dive N' Stuff as a great sixpac operation, but Paul prefers
experienced divers if he's going out to the north wall. You might want to
start out with an easy shore dive until you get your feet wet at Eden Rock
or the Turtle Farm. Beware of the stingrays at Stingray City. They're
killers.

"Greg Mossman" <mossman@qnet.com> wrote in message
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> "pearl" <dave@denbury.com> wrote in message
> news:1158332102.000083.319750@h48g2000cwc.googlegr oups.com...
>> Will be in Grand Cayman on a cruise the first week of October. Any
>> recommendations on who to dive with? Have to 2 teenagers 15 - 18 newly
>> certified, and wife and I dive but have not been out in 2 years.
>> Thanks for all the help!
>> Pearl
>
> Watch out in Grand Cayman, Pearl. They frown on homosexuality there, so
> you and your "wife" should be careful about expressing intimacies in
> public. Come out to California instead, where open lesbianism is not only
> tolerated, but encouraged.
>
> I'd recommend Dive N' Stuff as a great sixpac operation, but Paul prefers
> experienced divers if he's going out to the north wall. You might want to
> start out with an easy shore dive until you get your feet wet at Eden Rock
> or the Turtle Farm. Beware of the stingrays at Stingray City. They're
> killers.

In more ways than one.

At their level of experience, Rec.scuba conventional wisdom indicates one
of the four won't make it off the Cayman Islands alive.

"Popeye" <popeye@finalprotectivefire.com> wrote in message
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> In more ways than one.
>
> At their level of experience, Rec.scuba conventional wisdom indicates one
> of the four won't make it off the Cayman Islands alive.

But the Caymaners will cover up the deaths, as they always do.

Those Arubans should have taken a page from their book when Holloway was
kidnapped/killed. Would have saved them a lot of embarrassment on Nancy
Grace.

"Greg Mossman" <mossman@qnet.com> wrote in message
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> "Popeye" <popeye@finalprotectivefire.com> wrote in message
> news:12gm0bp8h2g435e@news.supernews.com...
>
>> In more ways than one.
>>
>> At their level of experience, Rec.scuba conventional wisdom indicates
>> one of the four won't make it off the Cayman Islands alive.
>
> But the Caymaners will cover up the deaths, as they always do.
>
> Those Arubans should have taken a page from their book when Holloway was
> kidnapped/killed. Would have saved them a lot of embarrassment on Nancy
> Grace.


Did she drive one of them to suicide?
--

Popeye
You can get much further with a kind word and a gun
than you can with a kind word alone. -Capone
www.finalprotectivefire.com

>> Watch out in Grand Cayman, Pearl. They frown on homosexuality there, so
>> you and your "wife" should be careful about expressing intimacies in
>> public. Come out to California instead, where open lesbianism is not only
>> tolerated, but encouraged.

Finally, the truth.

>> You might want to start out with an easy shore dive until you get your
>> feet wet at Eden Rock

A great night shore dive.

>> Beware of the stingrays at Stingray City. They're killers.

Nah, they cut the barbs from all of them. Trust me.

Lee

pearl wrote:
> Will be in Grand Cayman on a cruise the first week of October. Any
> recommendations on who to dive with? Have to 2 teenagers 15 - 18 newly
> certified, and wife and I dive but have not been out in 2 years.
> Thanks for all the help!
> Pearl

A few years ago there was talk of moving the cruise ship anchorages
around to the south shore, away from Georgetown. But assuming things
haven't changed yet, you'll be anchored off Georgetown. Eden Rock is a
great shore dive within walking distance of the shuttle dock. They also
operate a boat (or boats).

As for who you should dive with, you probably should wait to see what
kind of time you have there, when you arrive and depart etc. I would
think that the cruise ship would have recommendations as to which
operators make it easiest for cruise passengers. Some might even pick
up right from the ship. If you're only there for a day the possible
time constraints might be more problematic than choosing between dive
ops.

The great thing about GC is that unless there's a full blown hurricane
going on, there's always a sheltered side of the island to dive within
easy reach. If it's really rough they'll take you by van to the
sheltered shore and board there. Since the entire island is only
something like 20 by 7 miles in size, nothing's all that far away.

Have fun.

JF

"pearl" <dave@denbury.com> wrote in message
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> Will be in Grand Cayman on a cruise the first week of October. Any
> recommendations on who to dive with? Have to 2 teenagers 15 - 18 newly
> certified, and wife and I dive but have not been out in 2 years.
> Thanks for all the help!
> Pearl
>

When I was there I went out with the Sunset House. They seemed pretty good
at the time.

Jay
http://www.divewithjay.com