The reefs were amazing. They were huge and interconnected with all sorts of great tunnels (called "swim-throughs") that you could, uh, swim through! Here are the two divers ahead of me entering a swim-through.
I batch processed all of the underwater pictures in Photoshop to try to bring some of the true colors out. As light travels down through the water, the colors that have the least-dense waveform get filtered out. Violet, indigo and blue have the most-dense waveforms, which mean that they can penetrate really deep into the water.
Red has the least-dense waveform, which is why you'll hardly see any red in any of these pics - even the ones taken in relatively shallow water!
I was soooooooo excited to go diving in the Caymans. It's pretty much consistently listed as one of the best diving spots in the world. Not only does it have amazing coral and marine life, it's renowned for regularly having 150+ foot visibility! (Which is totally unheard of!) Check out how clear the water is! These pics don't even do justice to how much amazing it was in person! The deeper you go, the less visibility you have (because there's less light). But even at 50 feet you can still totally see the diver in the upper right-hand corner, who's at least thirty feet away!
Just as we were about to cast off, a big storm started rolling in causing big waves to start breaking over the reef. Despite the fact that we were in a tiny dinghy with a 2.5 horsepower motor, Tiny was not dissauded. "Me family has to eat, mon! Let's go diving."
Here's the bottom near the edge of the reef. You can't really tell from these pictures (because the blue overpowers everything else) but the colors down there were amazing.
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