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The deeper sites on its south side are generally visited on winter days when the north side is too rough. Little Cayman features dive sites as shallow as 20 feet (6.1 m) and its walls are deep enough to be effectively infinite. [3] Bloody Bay, in particular, is consistently ranked as one of the world's top dive sites.
Cayman Brac also has an additional 11 dive sites reachable by shore. [2] On Little Cayman, 'Bloody Bay Wall' and 'Jackson Bay' are dive destinations. Little Cayman features shallow dives as low at 20 feet and as deep as 6,000 feet. [3] They are both situated on the north side of the island and are not accessible year-round because of weather ...
The previous record may have belonged to Jim Hellemn of Blue Ocean Art. In 1999, Hellemn created a 1.77 gigapixel underwater photocomposite image, which was designed to facilitate life-size reproduction of a 20 ft high by 70 ft wide section of Bloody Bay Wall, a vertical coral reef wall in the Cayman Islands.
Map of Little Cayman showing the location of many of the wetlands in the IBA West Indian whistling ducks breed in the IBA. The Crown Wetlands lie on Little Cayman, one of the Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean Sea. Collectively they form one of the territory's Important Bird Areas (IBAs).
The National Gallery of the Cayman Islands is an art museum in George Town, in the Cayman Islands.Founded in 1996, NGCI is an arts organisation that seeks to fulfil its mission through exhibitions, artist residencies, education/outreach programmes and research projects in the Cayman Islands.
England took formal control of Cayman, along with Jamaica, under the Treaty of Madrid in 1670 [10] after the first settlers came from Jamaica in 1661–71 to Little Cayman and Cayman Brac. These first settlements were abandoned after attacks by Spanish privateers, but English privateers often used the Cayman Islands as a base and in the 18th ...
Edward Bodden Airfield (IATA: LYB, ICAO: MWCL), also known as Little Cayman Airport, is an airfield on the southwest side of Little Cayman, one of the Cayman Islands. The runway parallels the south shoreline, and approach and departures are over the water. Runway length includes a 180 metres (590 ft) displaced threshold on Runway 28.
Name Image Year built Location & coordinates Class of Light [2]Focal height [2]NGA number [2]Admiralty number [2]Range nml [2]Boatswain Lighthouse: Image: 1930s: West Bay: L Fl W 15s.