Scuba diving at Stingray City
Scuba diving at Stingray City
Scuba diving in Stingray City is a chance to get up close and personal with sometimes dozens of stingrays in fantastic calm conditions. The dive site is on the sheltered North end of the island of Grand Cayman, on a long shallow sandbar. Local fishermen used to throw spare catch overboard on the sandbar which attracted stingrays to the area in huge numbers. The number of stingrays you could find here made Stingray City scuba diving one of the top activities on the island. Diving Stingray City is an experience that is hard to match, a long shallow dive in crystal clear waters surrounded by huge friendly stingrays.
Stingray city is of course a hugely popular dive spot not only for scuba divers but for snorkelers and even swimmers who come to meet the rays. Photographs of people diving with dozens of rays are what most people associate with scuba diving Cayman Islands. Dive trips here avoid the crowds and get down to play with the stingrays in very slightly deeper waters. Most dive boats bring a small amount of squid with them to Stingray City to continue the old tradition of feeding the rays. The sheer number of rays and the easy sheltered waters have made Stingray City one of the most famous sites in Cayman Islands scuba diving.
