Grand Cayman Underwater Photography
Our Grand Cayman Underwater Photography page is about underwater pictures and a minimum of words. The beauty of the underwater world is something we’ve all come to appreciate, ever since Jacque Cousteau appeared on our TV sets all those years ago. It’s hard to capture the same quality of photo the professionals achieve but even so regular digital cameras gget some great shots on simple dives or even snorkeling. This first picture is the anchor from a wreck, lying quietly on the ocean floor just off George Town. Like any human artifact on the seabed it looks forlorn, a reminder of how easily we are ruined by nature if we aren’t careful enough or strong enough. One must-do of your Cayman vacation is to dive or snorkel the reef around the islands. The colors and forms are magnificent and well worth the time and expense. In some ways, the Cayman Islands are more colorful below the water than they are above, despite all those tropical flowers.
In the deeper water, the fish are solid colors, silver for the most part, which gives them a more purposeful, less friendly, appearance. The bigger more obvious ones are also predators and that too gives them a mean look. Tarpons are the common predators here and with a trip on the Atlantis submarine or a diving trip, you’ll see plenty. This stingray, lying on the bottom is a case in point. It may just be napping but probably not. Unlike the other rays, this one doesn’t want to be hand-fed at Sandbar or Stingray City. It obviously prefers to catch and kill its meals the old-fashioned way. 
These Parrotfish are eating coral, their regular diet. Their strong beaks, which are what gets them their names as it looks just like a parrot’s bill, crunch through the hard coral ‘shell’ and chews it up to get the soft creature inside.
Another parrotfish, multi-colored this time. While not the most highly-coloured fish around Grand Cayman, they’re certainly the easist to photo and their colors show up well in the picture.
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