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BIG DIPPER 50’-100’ (15-30m)
MITCH MILLER'S REEF 50’-60’ (15-
ROUND ROCK WEST & EAST 60’- 18m) Boat dive to reef named for the big
100’ (18-30m) Boat dive to walls covered band leader from the 1950’s and 1960’s
with corals and sponges, including an TV fame. Big star coral heads are
elephant ear-size elephant ear sponge. convoluted and have swim-throughs.
Sea plumes and black coral stick out from
the steep wall. MARTY'S WALL 50’-100’ (15-30m)
Mooring 20.0 W Boat dive to mini wall
NEPTUNE'S WALL 66’-100’ (20-30m) reef full of colorful sponges, rich in corals
Near-vertical wall dive full of big barrel and noted for variety of invertebrates.
sponges, rope sponges, and gorgonians
toward the top, and black corals deeper. KNIFE 66’-100’ (20-30m) Mooring
Spiny lobsters and slipper lobsters inhabit 21.0 W Boat dive to steep slope (almost a
nooks and crannies. wall), to find green moray eels, octopi and
big parrotfish.
WALL STREET 66’-100’ (20-30m) LOST TREASURE REEF 30’-50’ (9-
Boat dive to one of the Caribbean’s 15m) Good shore dive that can be
clearest water sites. The wall has enjoyed almost just as well by snorkelers.
absolutely pristine conditions in which
divers might feel they are the first ones SPANISH ANCHOR 40’-50’ (12’-15m)
ever there. Old 8' long (2.5m) Spanish anchor is
encrusted with bright yellow tube
SLAUGHTERHOUSE WALL 40’-50’ sponges. Divers rub a bare spot for luck.
(12-15m) Great shallow mini wall good Nassau groupers, angelfish, butterflyfish,
for all kinds of interesting and colorful and nurse sharks.
invertebrates. ANGELFISH REEF 33’-50’ (11-15m)
Boat dive with snorkeling on photogenic
SAND CHUTE 35’-100’ (12-30m) The reef amongst queen angelfish, and French
sand chute resembles a black diamond ski angelfish, colorful sea fans and sea
slope, until you notice the garden eels plumes and numerous fish.
peaking out of the snow. At the deepest
part of the dive there is a coral tunnel that GREAT HOUSE WALL 20’-100’ (18-
ascends and lets you out at just 35’ deep. 30m) Boat dive to wall that is also good
for snorkelers who can see the coral
DOC POULSON (WRECK) To 50‘ buttresses.
(15m) Popular night dive on intact,
scuttled 70' (21m) cable-layer (1981). AQUARIUM NORTH (KILLER
Silversides and big groupers that eat them PUFFER) 33’-43’ (11-14m) Reef for
live in the wreck. scuba or snorkeling at Grand Cayman's