Grand Cayman Snorkeling...

[Will B]

Here's the first video from our cruise last week. We went snorkeling when we were at Georgetown, Grand Cayman. Really clear water. No waves. Hopefully, there is sound. For some reason, I can't hear it after I uploaded it.

I also have video from the Bahamas later in the trip. I'll try to have that up as well as some pics this Friday. For those of you who are my FB friends, the pics are already on my page there. I think you can see them at Will Bruner's Photos - Disney Cruise, June 13 - 20 | Facebook without having an account.

Anyway...here's the video!

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH7lh8O3Iqw"]YouTube - Cayman Snorkeling[/ame]

 

[DD]

Beautiful and interesting!! When did the Cali shipwreck and how deep is it?

 

[Will B]

It was beached years before it "sank" so to speak. It was originally built as a four masted schooner before the turn of the century. Years later it was sold and renamed the Cali (bad maritime luck to rename ships). It was refitted with a steam engine and again later with the big diesel that is in the video. It was fully loaded with rice and developed a crack in the hull. They beached it in the harbor at Georgetown to keep it from sinking. What happens to rice when it gets wet? Right...it swells up. It split the hull from stem to stern, and there it sat for years and year. The government finally decided the easiest way to get rid of it was to blow it up so they packed it full of dynamite or some other explosive and blew it to smithereens. That's why it looks splayed open on the floor.

It's pretty shallow where it is. The top of some parts is only around 10' with the deepest around 30'. Not too bad.

 

[DD]

It was beached years before it "sank" so to speak. It was originally built as a four masted schooner before the turn of the century. Years later it was sold and renamed the Cali (bad maritime luck to rename ships). It was refitted with a steam engine and again later with the big diesel that is in the video. It was fully loaded with rice and developed a crack in the hull. They beached it in the harbor at Georgetown to keep it from sinking. What happens to rice when it gets wet? Right...it swells up. It split the hull from stem to stern, and there it sat for years and year. The government finally decided the easiest way to get rid of it was to blow it up so they packed it full of dynamite or some other explosive and blew it to smithereens. That's why it looks splayed open on the floor.

It's pretty shallow where it is. The top of some parts is only around 10' with the deepest around 30'. Not too bad.

Thanks for telling the story. I always wonder about sunken ships. How they sank and the story behind them.