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Dive Review of Red Sails/Morritt's Tortuga. Grand Caymanian in
Cayman Islands/Grand Cayman

Red Sails/Morritt's Tortuga. Grand Caymanian: "A windy vist to Cayman", Feb, 2015,

by David W taylor, ON, CA (Sr. Reviewer Sr. Reviewer 7 reports with 1 Helpful vote). Report 8603.

No photos available at this time

Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

Accommodations N/A Food N/A
Service and Attitude N/A Environmental Sensitivity 3 stars
Dive Operation 5 stars Shore Diving N/A
Snorkeling N/A
Value for $$ 3 stars
Beginners 3 stars
Advanced 4 stars
Comments Chose Red Sails as they run Tortuga Divers which is at Morritt's Tortuga on the east end which is where we stayed for our second week. The first week was at a time share swap at Grand Caymanian on the west side and I decided it to be more convenient to stay with the same operator.

Quite happy with them. On the west end they run a pontoon boat which had lots of space. Small groups with 1 DM to 3 divers. However after a 40 minute tour we split up. My buddy and I had good air consumption so we stayed down until one of us got to 750psi. So we got several 1 hour+ dives. Unfortunately it was very windy at times so several times we were driven to the south shore to dive. Not really a problem ... lots of variety is good. The wind was bad enough that there were whitecaps in the North Sound and we could see waves breaking over the reef near Sting Ray alley. It did calm down one afternoon to let me do the Kittiwake. After a tour I did my own thing with a DM in tow.

On the east it was a regular boat but with the same arrangements. Again there was wind at times so then we had boat rides to the south.
Websites Red Sails   

Reporter and Travel

Dive Experience Over 1000 dives
Where else diving Great Lakes, various Caribbean
Closest Airport Owen Robert's Getting There direct flight from Toronto

Dive Conditions

Weather sunny, windy Seas choppy, no currents
Water Temp 76-79°F / 24-26°C Wetsuit Thickness 3
Water Visibility 70- Ft/ 21- M

Dive Policy

Dive own profile yes
Enforced diving restrictions max depth 100 ft, start up at 750psi
Liveaboard? no Nitrox Available? N/A

What I Saw

Sharks 1 or 2 Mantas None
Dolphins None Whale Sharks None
Turtles > 2 Whales None
Corals 3 stars Tropical Fish 4 stars
Small Critters 3 stars Large Fish 4 stars
Large Pelagics 2 stars

Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

Subject Matter N/A Boat Facilities N/A
Overall rating for UWP's N/A Shore Facilities N/A
UW Photo Comments [None]
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