1200 ft. Wall Dive

[RickI]

My one and only dry sub dive took place off Georgetown, Grand Cayman a while back. This was before Ivan trashed the island and destroyed the deep submergence vessel sad to say. Did the dive with Grand Cayman Submarine Tour - Grand Cayman Atlantis Submarines - Grand Cayman Family Friendly Activities . They still run their sub "bus" down to about 112 ft. along the rampart of the drop off. Still worth a dive in my opinion. I can recall when they drove these large subs on flatbeds down I-95 one at a time to be shipped to destinations in the Caribbean. Strange sight!

The three man dry sub awaits


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[RickI]

File:Kirkpridebow.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Just added some more photos, video link and details to the link above dealing with a dive that I wish I made but failed to. A drop to the Kirk Pride in 800 ft. of water on the brink of the wall would have been incredible.

 

[mpgunner]

Way cool... How long was the dive?

 

[RickI]

It was about 90 minutes or so. Have a video too, analog though. Will have to dust it off and see about putting something together. Atlantis used to run deep submergence subs out of several of their islands. Not sure if they still do or not. Sure beats twelve or more hours including deco on heliox SCUBA.

 

[nipi]

There is (or used to be) a guy here in Cayman who claimed to have dived the 800 foot Kirk Pride. Without the use of the deep sub.

 

[DiveNav]

File:Kirkpridebow.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Just added some more photos, video link and details to the link above dealing with a dive that I wish I made but failed to. A drop to the Kirk Pride in 800 ft. of water on the brink of the wall would have been incredible.

Interesting .....
Are the deck plans available? And bathymetry of the area?

We might create a virtual dive site for the Kirk

 

[caymaniac]

I took that deep dive to 1000 a number of years ago. We were just on Grand Cayman last week. The deep sub no longer is available but it was awesome when it was.

 

[Jersey]

Very cool - thanks Rick! When I was a true newb (now just an older newb) one of my instructors was headed down. I innocently asked how deep he planned to go. He answered 1,000 feet and you could have picked me up off the floor...then he admitted 'in a sub'. I wanted to do that trip, but by the time I got to GC it was gone. A couple friends (non-diving and diving) did the 100 foot sub last trip and loved it. Just don't wear a skirt if you are a woman! Even the diving friend said it was cool, but she'd still rather be diving it.

 

[carlislere]

I made the Kirk Pride dive in 1986 in that 3-man drysub. Incredible dive! I have the certificate on my wall.

 

[RickI]

I thought I remembered something about that as well. We talked it over a bit in 1991 using heliox in Florida. Just contacted Divetech down there and to the person's knowledge that I spoke to, it has yet to be done. Nuno Gomes dropped to 1044 ft. and only took over 11 hours to do it. NUNOGOMES.CO.ZA So, 800 ft. in warm clear water is a walk in the park, right? Just a few stage bottles and you're there, not. Would be interesting though.

There is (or used to be) a guy here in Cayman who claimed to have dived the 800 foot Kirk Pride. Without the use of the deep sub.