rypark1999
Contributor
Hi everyone,
I will be on Grand Cayman - Gerogetown for the first time, plus, I am arriving by cruise ship (first time on a cruise as well - not my choice but dictated by family/non-diver situation).
Royal Caribbean - Liberty of the Seas. The cruise schedule shows that we will port at 10 AM and depart at 6 PM; July 3, 2019. I'm bypassing the ship's shore excursion package cuz they have no specific info on the dive op (plus I missed the discount). Without discount it's U$158 for two dives and equipment (without wetsuit - which is odd to me. Do they assume our skin doesn't need environment protection and is the water 98.6 F? I digress.)
With the above times, I'm guessing I'll be limited to a two tank afternoon dive. I'm assuming most dive boats leave early in the morning, so I will probably miss out on those boats.
I'm looking for a dive op that:
1) Picks up/drop offs from the Royal Caribbean dock
2) Can ensure my return well before 6 pm if the Dive Op goes to the north side - most important criteria!!
(I've seen youtube videos of cruise passengers standing on the dock watching their ship move away from the dock - not interested in experiencing that)
3) minimum divers, maybe 6 pax to 10 pax - no cattle boats
4) take me to a wall dive (looks like Royal Caribbean's port is on the west side and many here seem to think the north side diving is better than the west side diving) - related to no.2 above
I have read one of the more recent threads regarding dive ops. These are the ops that thread listed - do any of these ops not pick up/drop off at the Royal Caribbean port?
Indigo Divers
Indepth Watersports
DNS Divers
Cayman Univ Divers
Off the Wall
Stingray Watersports
Living the Dream (I like the name of this shop!)
Divetech
Wall to Wall
LTD
Red Sail
Thanks
Roy
I will be on Grand Cayman - Gerogetown for the first time, plus, I am arriving by cruise ship (first time on a cruise as well - not my choice but dictated by family/non-diver situation).
Royal Caribbean - Liberty of the Seas. The cruise schedule shows that we will port at 10 AM and depart at 6 PM; July 3, 2019. I'm bypassing the ship's shore excursion package cuz they have no specific info on the dive op (plus I missed the discount). Without discount it's U$158 for two dives and equipment (without wetsuit - which is odd to me. Do they assume our skin doesn't need environment protection and is the water 98.6 F? I digress.)
With the above times, I'm guessing I'll be limited to a two tank afternoon dive. I'm assuming most dive boats leave early in the morning, so I will probably miss out on those boats.
I'm looking for a dive op that:
1) Picks up/drop offs from the Royal Caribbean dock
2) Can ensure my return well before 6 pm if the Dive Op goes to the north side - most important criteria!!
(I've seen youtube videos of cruise passengers standing on the dock watching their ship move away from the dock - not interested in experiencing that)
3) minimum divers, maybe 6 pax to 10 pax - no cattle boats
4) take me to a wall dive (looks like Royal Caribbean's port is on the west side and many here seem to think the north side diving is better than the west side diving) - related to no.2 above
I have read one of the more recent threads regarding dive ops. These are the ops that thread listed - do any of these ops not pick up/drop off at the Royal Caribbean port?
Indigo Divers
Indepth Watersports
DNS Divers
Cayman Univ Divers
Off the Wall
Stingray Watersports
Living the Dream (I like the name of this shop!)
Divetech
Wall to Wall
LTD
Red Sail
Thanks
Roy