Dive Review of Pirates Point Resort in
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Pirates Point Resort, Aug, 2011, by David E Reubush, VA, US ( Top Contributor 68 reports with 35 Helpful votes). Report 6207.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	This was our 13th trip to Pirates Point and Gladys' 25th anniversary in business. August would not be the same without our annual pilgrimage to visit Gladys and her staff. (Some of whom predate our first visit in 1995. The turnover being low so that you develop a friendship with everyone.) You can read my reviews from previous years in the Undercurrent archives. The diving is, in our opinion, the best in the Caribbean and the food is as good as the diving. At least in August, the diving is also some of the easiest you will find anywhere with warm, flat water, great visibility, and generally no currents. Things were even better than usual this year. We had several dives with visibility well in excess of 100 ft. Also, the dive operations on Little Cayman have jointly gone after the lionfish such that we averaged seeing a lionfish on less than every other dive (including dives on the south side of the island which is not often dived in the summer). The operators take turns providing a boat every Wednesday afternoon and all the divemasters who are not otherwise occupied go lionfish hunting. Bob, one of the Pirates Point divemasters, has personally taken over 1500 lionfish since they started hunting. There were a number of reef sharks this year. We had one dive where 3 sharks circled around us for about 15 to 20 minutes. There were also the usual large number of turtles, including 2 greens. The turtles have become acclimated to divers and a number of them will continue about their business while you take their picture. I got some great shots. I will also comment that Gladys does not advertise and relies on word-of-mouth and repeat customers. For the 2 weeks we were there this year there were only a couple of people that we did not know from previous trips which kind of says it all about how good the diving and operation are.
Websites	Pirates Point Resort
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Australia, Belize, Bimini, Bonaire, Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, Curacao, Dominica, Dumaguete, Galapagos, Indonesia, Puerto Galera, Red Sea, Roatan, Turks & Caicos, Virgin Islands
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, dry	Seas	calm, no currents
Water Temp	85-86°F / 29-30°C	Wetsuit Thickness	1
Water Visibility	70-120 Ft/ 21-37 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	100 ft. max first dive, 60 ft. max second dive, come back with 500 psi
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	Rinse tank on boat only for cameras, camera table on boat generally uncrowded except for beginning of trip when boat was full of photographers, big, deep sink back at resort for camera rinsing.

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Dive Review of Pirates Point Resort in Cayman Islands/Little Cayman

Pirates Point Resort, Aug, 2011,

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Dive Review of Pirates Point Resort in
Cayman Islands/Little Cayman