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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
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