Today I went scuba diving with two good friends of mine and some of their friends (was great to meet you all!) on the “North Wall” of Grand Cayman.

The wall is that there is a “dropoff” and you basically swim along the wall.  The drop off is 4000+ ft deep.  Imagine swimming over the edge of the Grand Canyon; probably the best comparison.   You are basically swimming above an abyss ; its quite a strange feeling.  So much water below; I guess its the closest feeling to flying one can get!  Very nice.

The dive was spectacular ; turtles, eagle rays, lobster, moray eel, barracuda and all kinds of other stuff.

One of the three eagle rays. Quite big, very impressive sight. A definite highlight of the dive.

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A very friendly sea turtle.  It swam near the group for quite a few minutes.

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A quite large barracuda. Very sharp teeth … they generally do not harm humans though.

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Some interesting coral formations.

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Lots of fish

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Me! 🙂

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Here are also some YouTube videos of the event.  In the first one, we went down a cave. At the end of the cave, we are at the wall.  Below is the 4000ft drop. The second one are the Eagle rays.  (sorry about the beep sound in that one …)

Thanks Lee for letting me use your camera!

North Wall

Eagle Rays

Last of all … MANY more pictures at http://www.micho.org/gallery