Cayman Brac Dive Centre - Cayman Islands, Caribbean

The Cayman Brac Dive Centre, a PADI 5* and SSI centre, is based on site at the Cayman Brac Beach Resort and offers a ‘valet’ full service facility, minutes away from a host of world class dive sites including a superb mix of wall, wreck and reef diving.


Location
Located at The Cayman Brac Beach Resort, the centre is situated on a private beach on the western tip of Cayman Brac, the easternmost of the Cayman Islands. The island is 12 miles long and 2 miles wide at its widest point.


Facilities & Services
Four comfortable, well equipped dive boats out of a custom fleet of eleven call Cayman Brac their home – Big Sister, Little Sister, Ocean Sister and Coral Sister. Ranging from 42-46 feet in length, they have a capacity of 36 divers but the centre restricts diver numbers to 20, to ensure a comfortable trip and diving with few others around you.

The boats are equipped with comfortable bench seats, a gear storage area, tank racks and a padded camera table to protect underwater photography gear. There is a hang line and regulator for low-on-air safety stops, and dive ladders and handrails make for an easy exit from the water. There are fresh water showers and bathroom facilities on board, and plenty of shade in addition to sunning areas on the forward and aft decks – perfect for relaxing after a dive. Fresh towels, snacks and cold water are supplied for guests’ comfort. All boats are fitted with a radio, phone, emergency oxygen kit, first aid and safety equipment as standard.

The dive centre offers a ‘valet diving’ service allowing divers to relax and let the experienced crew do all of the work, resulting in a laidback, carefree dive holiday. All guests receive a dive bag at check in so you can personally pack your gear. On the day of diving, just leave your bag outside of your room and the dive team will carefully take your gear onto the dive boats and prepare it for the dive. Once on board, the crew will help you get kitted up, and ensure your tanks are changed after every dive. They will also rinse your BCD and regulator, while you take care of the light stuff, your personal snorkel gear and wetsuit. There are special rinse tanks and a drying room at your disposal for this.
Boat trips, snorkelling and complete PADI instructional programmes up to Dive Master are available at the centre. The dive shop is stocked with all the necessary equipment and latest technology, as well as an assortment of logo t shirts and other sportswear. The centre provides fresh water rinsing tanks, fresh water showers, a dive gear storage area and bathroom facilities. It also uses two water-cooled dive compressors complete with state of the art filtration systems and plenty of air storage capacity, as well as a Nitrox Technologies Membrane system for Nitrox dives.

Diving
Boats depart each morning at 8:30am and again in the afternoon at 2pm. One or two dives can be completed in the morning and one in the afternoon. Night dives are available at 7:30pm on selected evenings each week. Water temperature in the Cayman Islands ranges from around 26˚c in the winter up to 30˚c in the summer, with near unlimited visibility, usually 40-50m with little or no current. There are well over forty dive sites and four wrecks to enjoy on Cayman Brac Island. Cayman Brac is the site of one of the world’s best wreck dives, the MV Capt Keith Tibbetts, as well as 100 different hard and soft corals and 500 types of fish. Divers have the chance to see turtles, spotted eagle rays, reef sharks, Nassau groupers, moray eels, stingrays, horse eye jacks, barracuda, flying gurnards and more. Trips to Bloody Bay Wall Marine Park, arguably the finest wall dive in the Caribbean, are offered during the week, but are weather dependent. It is more straightforward to dive this world class dive site from Little Cayman Island.


Dive Courses
Cayman Brac Dive Centre offers a wide range of PADI courses which can be incorporated into your diving schedule. Courses available include: Discover Scuba Diving, Advanced Courses, Nitrox and Rescue as well as other specialities such as Deep Diver.

Dive Packages
The centre offers 4 custom dive boats to take you diving on a daily basis. The boats are also available for private charter for family groups or special occasions.