Cayman Islands

(Dive Travel Business News.com - December 3, 2011) --  Little Cayman Beach Resort has opened it newly remodeled Nature Spa.  Housed in a cottage built in the traditional Caymanian style, the new design captures the island’s tranquility with island themed colors and textures to excite your senses.  The spa environment includes a nature inspired waterfall and contemporary surroundings and furnishings designed by Sherry Fickling of the Crown Point Design firm located in Greenville, North Carolina.

The Nature Spa is situated on Little Cayman’s Booby Pond Nature Preserve that has the largest breeding colony of red footed booby birds in the Caribbean.  Guests are invited to relax on the deck before or after their treatment and enjoy the splendor and beauty of the nature preserve. The Nature Spa’s highly trained staff provides Deep Tissue, Hot Stone, Swedish Massage or reflexology with facials, waxing or nail treatments - a welcome addition to a dive traveler's itinerary to Little Cayman. read more »

(Dive Travel Business News - December 10, 2011) - - Kick off the new year with Culinary Month in Grand Cayman! Now you can enjoy fantastic FOOD, great WINE and awesome diving (WATER). With more than 100 restaurants participating, 11 with Wine Spectator awards and many renowned "celebrity" chefs, you'll enjoy not only an all-inclusive meal plan at Cobalt Coast but also receive a $100 gift voucher to enjoy at one of our many restaurants.

Weekly culinary events are being hosted, including the Taste of Cayman, the island's most popular festival celebrating restaurants, local artisan products such as Cayman Sea Salt and Seven Fathoms Rum that are unique and different. Plus you'll partake in a Lion fish cull & tasting event combining an environmental message with local seafood cuisine and sustainable fishing practices. Last but not least, explore the Kittiwake including a weekly treasure hunt with great prizes!   read more »

(Dive Travel Business News - December 27, 2011) -- The popular scuba diving television series Into The Drink  is heading into its third season in 2012. The ground-breaking adventure program set new standards for excitement and exploration when it first premiered on HDNET. The entire first season has been packaged in a three-disc DVD box set.

According to show creator Randy Harris, “The first season set the bar that the entire crew has worked to match in subsequent seasons. We travel throughout the world exploring not only some of the most pristine diving destinations on the globe, but we also show some of the unique topside and cultural experiences found in these places. Throw in a bit of humor and colorful characters and you have Into The Drink, Season 1.” The DVD Box set is available for $29.95. 

Season 1 of Into The Drink features all 13 episodes and a bonus disc with surprise footage never before released on DVD. Episodes include:
• Turks & Caicos, Parts I & II
• Honduras, Parts I & II read more »

(Dive Travel Business News - December 11, 2011) -- Sunset House Dive Resort, located on the west side of Grand Cayman and walking distance from George Town Cayman Islands, has invested over US$250,000 in renovating their premium rooms into a whole new level of service. Located on the north end of the property on the sea side of the resort, upgraded Oceanview, Suites and Apartments offer more space with 2 Queen beds or 2 King-size, flat screen cable TV and a private balcony looking out through the palm trees to the Caribbean Sea.

"We renovated all of these rooms with new bathrooms, including fixtures, travertine tile, vinyl covered concrete ceiling tiles with recessed lights and hair dryers and putting programmable safes, ironing boards and irons, microwaves, larger refrigerators to replace the existing fridges, along with the coffee makers in the spacious rooms" states Ken Thompson, hotel manager for the resort. read more »

(Dive Travel Business News - March 4, 2011) -- Often heralded as the top dive destination in the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands has sunk the ex-USS Kittiwake off the north end of Grand Cayman’s Seven Mile Beach creating another dive site.  The USS Kittiwake, a decommissioned 1945-vintage submarine rescue ship, was scuttled on Wed Jan 5, 2011 in the Cayman Islands to create an artificial reef that will attract both fish and tourists. 

The former WWII US Navy ship was thoroughly prepared, with the removal of any hazard materials before it was towed from the US to Grand Cayman.  The former submarine carrier will become an important artificial reef that provides a haven for local marine life as well as a key dive and snorkel site. The Kittiwake sinking is part of the dive destination’s Dive 365 initiative, an on-going program to develop dive sites across Cayman for every day of the year. read more »

(Dive Travel Business News - November 17, 2010) -- The Cayman Islands will soon have a new artificial reef with the sinking of an old American warship with the upcoming sinking of the USS Kittiwake. 

The vessel will find its finally resting place on Saturday December 11, 2010 in the waters off Seven Mile Beach on Grand Cayman so that there is just 15 feet of water above it. The location will make it accessible to novice divers and snorkelers and create a safe marine habitat for surrounding reef life.

The vessel has already been prepared for safe underwater access by divers and snorkelers, and has been thoroughly scrubbed with all toxic materials removed.  The vessel will be towed a distance of approximately 1400 nautical miles along the eastern seaboard of the US from Norfolk Virginia, by Key West Florida, and then along normal shipping lanes around the western coast of Cuba to the port  of Georgetown on the west side of Grand Cayman. The tow is expected to take 7-9 days at an average towing speed of 8 knots, weather permitting. read more »

(Dive Travel Business News - July 21, 2010) -- The Cayman Islands Tourism Association (CITA) regrets to inform the public of an urgent situation that has arisen which will cause the USS Kittiwake sinking events scheduled to take place between July 24^th - 27th, 2010, to be postponed. 

(Dive Travel Business News - May 10, 2010) -- Delta Air Lines is starting nonstop service from New York’s JFK to the Cayman Islands on June 12, 2010. The flights will operate once a week on Saturdays using the 160-seat Boeing 737-800. The Caymans are also offering the family-oriented Summer Splash promotion, which is valid for travel May 15 to Sept. 6, 2010, and includes discounted accommodations, activities, meals, car rentals, attractions and more. For more information, visit the Cayman Islands site or Delta.

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