We took a ferry out about 15 minutes to the place where the sub comes up to take on new passengers.
We heard that not far off shore, the water depth can drop to 1500 ft. We errantly thought that every where you see deep blue, it will be 1500 ft. After trying to swim to deep water and failing, on the last day we decided to take the famous submarine ride.
It leaves Georgetown, tourist trap central. Turns out they overbooked for the time we had, so they gave us half off if we would wait an hour. No problem!
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We took a ferry out about 15 minutes to the place where the sub comes up to take on new passengers. |
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Zillions of tourists. Mon-Fri there are up to five cruise ships stopping in this harbor. Many tourists don't get far beyond this little area. |
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Here comes the beast. |
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Coming up along side the ferry. |
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The hatch is closed, and the stairs swing up out of the way. |
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Not the best for taking pictures. Not sure why. It looked clearer and more colorful than this live. I think it has to do with taking pictures through glass with an autofocus camera. And down deep the water is darker. |
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More crappy pictures of fish. |
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El Capitan The trip was very cool. We did see the 1500 ft cliff. It was very boring; just really deep blue nothingness. We dove to only 100ft. |
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A turtle swimming along on the surface. |
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Then we went to the airport and took off. Turns out, this big fella behind us is very well known in the Cayman Islands. We were lucky to get our picture taken with him. Learn more..., but warning...you may find this offensive. |
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We thought the adventure was over here. But our flights were delayed at Charlotte, North Carolina. We had already missed our connecting flight in Phoenix, so we decided to spend the night there and fly out the next day. USAirways gave us first class tickets. |
