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Lighthouse Point
 571 NW Point Rd., West Bay, Grand Cayman KY1-1206, Cayman Islands
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Max Depth: 51-60ft/16-18m
Average Viz: Over 150ft/46m
Entry Type: Shore
Bottom Composition: Coral
Aquatic Life: Plenty To See
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Spring: 76-80°F/24-27°C
Summer: 81-85°F/27-29°C
Fall: 81-85°F/27-29°C
Winter: 76-80°F/24-27°C
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Lighthouse Point is a shore accessible salt water dive site, located at 571 NW Point Rd., West Bay, Grand Cayman KY1-1206, Cayman Islands. The maximum depth is 51-60ft/16-18m. The average visibility is over 150ft/46m. This dive site provides bathrooms and airfills. Training platforms are available.
From ScubaDiving.com
Lighthouse Point, Grand CaymanStart with a mini wall to 60 feet then the sheer wall that plunges to 4,000 feet. Tons of pelagics and epic visibility, and you have Grand Cayman’s most adrenaline-filled dive.
Located at Lighthouse Point 10 minutes north of Georgetown, the dive site lies just off a 100-foot-long dock. Giant-stride in or climb down the ladder, then it’s a quick swim to the action. Conditions rarely vary from ideal: no wind, waves or current.
The scooter saves air consumption considerably and allows you to keep pace with marine life — and you’ll see a ton of it. Eagle rays, nurse sharks and turtles cruise by regularly, often in numbers that will inspire jealousy come happy hour. Divetech instructor Emma finds that seeing as many as 14 eagle rays in one dive here is fairly typical. “You’d be unlucky not to see turtles here,” she adds, mentioning that divers will also likely encounter behaviors not commonly wit- nessed elsewhere on island. Because on average no more than 40 people explore the site each day, wildlife is less disturbed. Emma has seen Flounder, Squid, Pufferfish, Octopus mate and Eagle Rays & Stingrays stir up clouds of sand while hunting garden eels.
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Divetech instructor will guide you or explore on your own for $10/tank of air. The scooter depth will be limited to 100 feet but with a run time of over a hour.
From DiveTech’s website; LIGHTHOUSE POINT is located on the NW tip of Grand Cayman - a great quiet getaway from Seven Mile Beach and just 10 minutes North of town. Here you will experience a shore dive on the mini wall or deep wall that is rated amongst the top on the island! 50 yards off shore makes easy access to a 35’ vertical mini-wall that runs from 25’ to 60’, where you find the 17’ tall bronze statue "Guardian of the Reef" with an abundance of corals, sponges and marine life. The dive site is pristine and unspoiled with southern, eagle and lemon rays, octopus, scorpion fish, bristle stars, crabs, anemones, eels, tarpons, schools of Jacks and an abundance of reef fish from juveniles to old timers seen on a daily basis.