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Article: ISLAND MICRO DIVING IS AN OFF-THE-WALL EXPERIENCE IN LITTLE CAYMAN.(Travel)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- December 18, 2005
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Byline: Bill Becher Correspondent
LITTLE CAYMAN ISLAND, British West Indies - The dive master draws a line and writes 6,000 on the dive plan board. That's the depth of the ocean at the Bloody Bay Wall at Little Cayman Island. On the other side of the line he writes 25 - the depth of the coral reef that surrounds this tiny Caribbean island - one of the prime dive destinations in the world.
Bloody Bay got its name from a pirate battle that left the water running red. But now the water is gin-clear, and modern dive boats ply the northwest shore of Little Cayman, anchoring at one of the dive sites marked by buoys.
The divers hold their masks and ...