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Bloody Bay Wall
 Little Cayman, Cayman Islands
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Max Depth: Over 150ft/46m
Average Viz: 101-110ft/31-34m
Entry Type: Boat
Bottom Composition: Sand
Aquatic Life: Plenty To See
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Rating: 4.57 by 7 divers
Summer: 81-85°F/27-29°C
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Bloody Bay Wall is a boat accessible salt water dive site, located in Little Cayman, Cayman Islands. This dive site has an average rating of 4.57 out of 5 from 7 scuba divers. The maximum depth is over 150ft/46m. The average visibility is 101-110ft/31-34m.
A world-famous dive site featuring sheer vertical walls, excellent visibility and incredible marine life.
One of the most pristine underwater sites in the world, Bloody Bay Wall is part of a unique ocean reef system surrounding Little Cayman Island, a popular destination for scuba divers in the British West Indies. The unusual characteristics of the reef’s architecture provide exceptional underwater visibility, and a diverse profusion of marine life thrives on and about its submerged cliff walls.
The Cayman Islands are part of an undersea mountain range, the flattened tips just barely emerging from the water to form the islands. Clinging to the tops and sides of these mountains, in the shallower water that rings the islands, is one of the richest accumulations of coral-reef marine life anywhere in the world. At Bloody Bay Wall, on the north shore of Little Cayman Island, the sea floor ends abruptly at a depth of only 18 - 25 feet, dropping off into a 6,000 foot vertical cliff. Many types of hard and soft coral grow along its craggy face. Sharing living space with the corals are vivid yellow tube sponges, red rope sponges and wondrous sea fans. Thousands of mobile creatures inhabit the wall as well, some seeking the wall’s excellent protection from predators, and others searching its shelters for prey. Tiny shrimp, brittle stars, Christmas tree worms, lobsters, sea cucumbers, moray eels, and countless varieties of small brilliantly colored fish coexist in timeless balance. Turtles, stingrays, eagle rays, barracudas, groupers and sharks are often found swimming nearby.
From SportDiver Planet’s 50 Greatest Dives, #18 Bloody Bay Wall
Little Cayman, Cayman Islands
It might be the smallest of the Cayman Islands, but Little Cayman’s dramatic wall is surely one of the world’s biggest diving thrills. In places it’s not just precipitously vertical, it actually curves back under itself. Famed for rich reef life, such as lobsters, turtles and reef sharks, the most indelible memory belongs to the Nassau groupers. They are plentiful on every dive site and so friendly that some divers even cuddle them. When one of these large, curious fish stares into your mask and joins you on your dive, you can’t help but fall in love. — Alex Mustard