1st String: First in Guadalupe Shark Diving LiveaboardsWritten by C.C.
Largest and Most Spacious White Shark Cage Diving Vessel at Guadalupe The 1st String, is first in luxury and spacious traveling of white shark diving liveaboards plying water of Guadalupe Island offering comfort as only 1st can. Quality orientated, shark cages are custom built for photographer and naturalist. They are designed to provide best viewing angles over any previous cages used at Guadalupe to maximize your upclose encounters with ocean's apex predator. The vessels The Shark Diving liveaboard is designed for your comfort and safety. It is newest and most luxurious shark diving vessel in California shark diving fleet, offering our divers a more comfortable, safe and relaxing diving experience. At 93' in length and featuring a 25' beam, vessel is extremely spacious. The low to water, exceptionally wide beam offers divers a huge deck area and a much more stable ride platform. Features include
| | Grand Cayman After The Hurricane SeasonWritten by Clint Leung
One of ports visited on our recent Royal Caribbean cruise was Grand Cayman. This was an eagerly awaited port since I've been there before but wanted to take my girlfriend scuba diving there. We were worried that we might miss this port since Caymans were hit pretty hard by hurricanes and indeed, they had closed islands off to tourist travel for part of summer/fall. Fortunately for us, Grand Cayman had reopened just about two weeks prior to our cruise at end of November.Getting to Grand Cayman is by tender since it had a shallow harbour. This can be a potential problem in itself because we were told that if wind and waves are too rough, captain would cancel port and spend rest of day at sea. Apparently in past, one of tender boat workers had fallen and got crushed to death between boat and dock during one of rougher wave days. This resulted in cruiseships being much more careful in deciding whether to allow tendering or not given conditions. Again, fortunately for us, weather was picture perfect during day we were in Grand Cayman last week. The downtown area pretty well recovered from effects of hurricanes and shopping was business as usual. There were four ships at port during day we were at port. Grand Cayman is above average in terms of cleaniness and attitude of locals for a Caribbean island. It is also one of pricier island though. Bargains can still be found though, especially in liquor where there are examples of certain liquors being even less expensive in Grand Cayman than even Cozumel. For example, Malibu rum was $10 US in Grand Cayman, $13 in Cozumel and about $19 back in Miami home port. Everything else like restaurants and activities were generally more expensive than other islands.
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