Topic: Ocean Frontiers

Thirty years ago this week, a trio of business partners started a dive company in East End, with a single boat, and big dreams.

Two Cayman dive instructors have returned to the island after spending a year working in Texas with NASA astronauts, including the two astronauts currently stuck on board the International Space Station.

In the days after Cayman’s borders reopened on 20 Nov., a small number of tourists across the islands were taking giant strides off the back of dive boats or climbing down ladders to start shore dives.

Dive operator Ocean Frontiers has launched fundraising efforts to help combat the spread of stony coral tissue loss disease at 55 dive sites in East End.

Pillar coral, which is considered a vulnerable species, is at particular risk from stony coral tissue loss disease due to its rarity locally.

Thrilling close encounters with sharks in Cayman's waters are helping change the image of the apex predators and educate divers about conservation efforts.

This is how a coral reef reproduces...

East End's Ocean Frontiers takes divers on a one-off, day-long trip to Little Cayman.

Dive sites across Grand Cayman will be open for the first time in almost three months on Sunday, and the island’s dive operators are gearing up to welcome back customers.

An outage of service at Cayman National Bank over the weekend coincided with a major data breach at the bank’s sister company in the Isle of Man. CNB officials say the two incidents are unrelated and local customers should not be affected by the overseas event.

Dive shop owner Steve Broadbelt thought he had seen it all. That was until he stumbled across a train wreck in the shallow waters off East End.

As a group, they have been to Cayman a handful of times, but every trip is new, bringing wounded U.S. military veterans to dive at the Central Caribbean Marine Institute, Compass Point and Ocean Frontiers. The latest weeklong trip started June 17 with a dozen veterans, suffering from back injuries, chronic pain, depression as part of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Rough seas and 15 to 20 knot winds will likely continue in Cayman through the rest of the week, according to the National Weather Service, forcing tourism operators to adapt their plans as the high season gets under way. Water-sports operators said Monday that most trips to the North Sound have been canceled.

The inventors of one of the first diving regulators and the man who led the first explorations beneath the North Pole were among the pioneers honored at the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Friday.

Over a couple of nights every September, a few days after the full moon, the corals of the Cayman Islands burst into life as their annual spawning gets under way. Last week, divers got to experience the spawning show, which lasts about 20 to 30 minutes.