Cayman Brac
                      Brac Reef Resort
                      July 20-27 1996
                   by Carl L. Wilson, II
                clwilson@access.mountain.net
                          Part Two
                           Diving
The week I was at Cayman Brac the visibility was 50-75 feet.
We dived a lot of nice reefs and saw a lot of small marine
life.  I did see one nurse shark about 3 meters long, a few
groupers in the 50-75 cm range, and a couple of Barracudas
over 1 meter.
We made a trip to Bloody Bay wall on little Cayman Island
about 10 miles away.  After the dives we had lunch at the
resort on Little Cayman which is a sister resort to Brac
Reef Resort.
After lunch the boat that brought us over left to assist one
of the other dive boats which suffered a mechanical failure.
We were not advised of this until later and thus could not
get our money, suntan lotions, or any other personal gear
from the boat we arrived on.
While on Little Cayman island we were not allowed to charge
anything, such as a drink at the bar, back to our room at
Brac Reef as we had been told we could.  Needless to say
this was a long, boring afternoon, which got longer.  About
one and a half hours after we were schedule to leave, we
finally left Little Cayman for Cayman Brac, in a small open
boat with no water or refreshments. The trip back to Cayman
Brac was a tiring and hot 75 minutes of bouncing over rough
water in the sun with nothing to drink or do except hunt for
non-existent shade.
The Brac Reef Divers like all other operations in the
Cayman Island group belong to the Cayman Watersport
Operators Association (CWOS) which sets the limits for
diving in the Cayman Islands.
               Diving limits are as follows:
1st dive 110 ft/50 min (computer)  100ft/50 min (tables)
2nd dive 60ft/50 min (computer) 50 ft/50 min (tables)
3rd dive 50ft/40 min )computer 40 ft/40 min (tables)
As one can imagine, the best you can do is one wall dive a
day.  If the wall starts deep at 70-80 feet, you can drop
over the edge, but that is it.
We did a lot of shallow diving and the dive guides
(particularly Zam) were very good at pointing out the
marine life.
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