After 23 successful and safe dives, we had a SUPER time..  Got a few pics...

Checking out the equipment and diver on the first dive of the trip.  A-O-K

Doc Paulson: a merchant wreck discovered off Grand Cayman by Doc Paulson

Fan coral attached to the wreck.  After many years sunken ships become reef

Closed green brain coral

Chris:  She was one of the Aggressor Fleet Dive pros

Red Cod

Stingray City! What a trip. These guys took squid from our hands and let us play!

Sometimes a bit close for comfort.  Gotta watch out or they will give a "hickey"

Yellow Cathedral Sponge.  About 18 inches tall

Typical bottom scene in the shallows of the reef at Little Cayman

Alan, our boat captain.  Who dives in a T-shirt?

Purple cone sponge with a brittle star inside

One of many swim through caves we encountered

A rare sight!  This sponge is spawning.  Only happens once a year!

Giant Crab.  About 2 feet across

A very strange type of star

Caribbean Lobster

Schooling Yellow-Tail Snappers

Large adult Franch Angel

Oooooh, Barracuda!  about 4 feet long

A Jewfish.  Part of the grouper family.  In this case at a cleaning station

Purple whip

Grouper and mated Niger Triggers

Big-Eye (Squirrel) fish

Matt monster

This tunnel went straight down.  We went through, about 50 feet

Yep.  Common reef shark.  Mostly harmless.  About 5 feet long.

These are giant Feather Dusters.  Trust me, they are hard to get pictures of.

This male stingray is trying to hide amongst the yellow tail goatfish

Conch soup anyone?

That is a large sea cucumber

Brittle star

A parrot fish trying to sleep

King Crab

This turtle was snorkeling in very deep water.  About 110 feet at night.

This is a Trumpet fish and was particularly hard to photograph.. Shy I guess.

Can you feel the love?

Looking up through a 30 foot swim-through

Large Niger Trigger near her nest

Green Wrasse

Royal Gamma.  Often found in aquariums

Doesn't this sponge (at 100 feet) look a lot like a pair of pants?

Mixed color branch sponges

Queen angel about 16 inches

This is a hard coral

The queen angel playing hard to get

Flamingo Tongues.  These are sort of like snails or nudibranchs

Conch Eye.

Territorial fish chasing a curious fish.

You see the head?  That's attached to 8 feet of green moray eel body

All those dots are krill

Another Barracuda

Lots of corals

This is a huge French angel

And the weirdest kind of star.  only came out at night.

Russian destroyer sunk off Cayman Brak by the Cayman government.

Lot's of interesting swim throughs

Fire coral.  Don't touch!

The destroyer was bought from Cuba for about $200,000

This was an amazing sighting of a pair of Eagle Rays

This was the ships steward.  First dive EVER

What?

WHAT?

WHAT?!?!?!?!

This is a closed brain coral

One of the few anemone we found.  This is a bubble-tip

HOT!

Queen Trigger.  Weird fish.  But fast.

A pair of purple tangs..

Poison!  Box jelly.

Hog-fish

Another Bubble tip. 

Bi-color angel

This is a LOT of black tangs!

I was swiming with them!

You don't see me do you?