Saturday

The cayman Aggressor 4 welcome 18 excited divers! A Fun week of great diving ahead of us was waiting. After everyone had set their dive gear up and checked in with Capt. Billy, they all settled in for dinner. After dinner 2^nd Capt. Sarah gave the welcome / Safety briefing. Then it was bedtime to get ready for diving the next day. 

Sunday

After a great night’s sleep. We departed the dock at 06:30 and made our way to our first dive site. We did our check out dive on a site called Gov Reef. Here we saw reef fish, stingrays, tiger grouper, and lobsters. A great shallow first dive to dust the cobwebs off. We then moved to the USS kittiwake for the 2-3 dive of the day, here everyone saw, Eagle rays’ horse eyed jacks, barracuda. For the 4^th dive of the day, we moved the boat again to a site called Bonnie’s arch. Here we had turtles Arrow crabs, spotted drums. After dinner we started the engines and started our long crossing to little cayman. Whoop 

Monday 

As the sun rose over little cayman we started of a dive site called Nancys cup of tea. Here we did the first two dives, and everyone saw Reef sharks, lobsters, Turtles, Groupers and a Baby reef shark. During lunch we moved to a site called Great Wall, here we had Flounders, Lettice leaf slugs, Shrimps, Baby Stingray, and a spotted drum. For the 4-5 dive we moved to a site called The Meadows. On the 4^th dive we had turtles, stingrays, and it was Randy’s 100^th dive, Congratulations. On the night dive we had squid, octopus, reef shark, stingrays. 

Tuesday

We started the engines Early on Tuesday morning and made our way over to Cayman Brach to dive the Keith Tibbets wreck, we did two dives here and Melissa celebrated her 100th dive, great job melissa. On the dives everyone explored the wreck and found crabs, lionfish and cuddle fish. During lunch we made our way back to little cayman and upon our arrival we wondered into a squall with lots of rain thunder and lighting, Capt. Billy found a calm spot for us to hide out until it passed. Once the weather cleared, we tied up to a site call joys joy where we dove 4 out of the 5 dives a day. During the day we had lots of action, moray eel, sleeping turtle, mantas shrimp, and grouper all over. During the night we have octopus, turtle, soapfish, and channel clinging crabs. 

Wednesday 

After a peaceful night’s sleep, we awoke to blue skies and calm seas. We started the day off at a site called Marilyn’s cut. this dive site is right on bloody bay, and the wall drop off and tunnels are amazing, we had a nurse shark, reef sharks, huge friendly groupers who followed you along the reef and wall, on dive two Debs celebrated her 200th dive, great job debs. During lunch we moved to a site called bus stop. It’s a shallow reef with lots of sand between us and the wall. This is where we find our stingrays and eagle rays in little Cayman. After the afternoon dives, we fired up the engines and started to make our way back to Grand cayman.

Thursday 

We arrived early in the Moring back to grand cayman. We started the day off at a site called big tunnels. The guests were welcomed with a free-swimming green moray eel and its Karlos birthday, so we started our celebrations off right on the wall, after dive 1 we moved to a site called Neptune’s wall. Here we had stingrays. Snapper, and school master snapper. During lunch Capt. Billy moved the boat again to the doc Poulson. It’s an 80ft cable laying vessel that was named after the doctor who founded the recompression chamber on island. For the final two dives of the day we arrived at the site Oro Verde, Spanish for green gold. It was an old banana transport vessel that was sank for divers and has been smash up by storms and made a great fishy dive. Up in the shallows the fish life is amazing. After dinner we all watched Sarah’s video which was by far the best video, we have all seen, then it was time for the last night dive of the week and it did not disappoint, there was two octopus, 2 spotted drums, stingray in the sand, and a lot of reef fish swimming around. 

Friday 

A beautiful last day of diving. We woke up to sunshine and got ready for our first dive at sunset house reef. Danny led the dive as this is his favorite site with the beautiful mermaid. They saw peacock flounders, drum fish, garden eels and had a wonderful time. In between the dives everyone sat down the Sarah for check out, and then got ready for the final dive. We moved the boat to Devil’s Grotto, and Rodel took everyone on a beautifully relaxing dive through all the tarpon filled swim throughs. Back on the boat, everyone rinsed their gear, sat down for lunch, and then made plans for the afternoon. Some went to the Turtle Center, while others shopped and walked around. After a lovely afternoon on land, everyone joined the crew for the farewell wine and cheese party on the sundeck. 11 Iron Diver awards were handed out, in addition to two Advanced Open Water Awards, a Fashion award, and 3 milestone awards for hitting dives 100 and 200^th! Thank you all for an amazing week at sea.  The crew hope to dive with you all again!! 

                   Crew of the CAYMAN AGGRESSOR IV