PatW
Contributor
I have been to CoCo View and Little Cayman and Brac Reef Resort. I have not been to Cobalt Coast but the two places I mentioned are run by the same entity.
CoCo View has quite a bit to offer. It has two boat dives per day. On the way back, you can drop off and do CoCo View wall or Newman's Wall. Both are decent but I believe the corals are degraded by nutrients coming out from the harbor. The swim in through the turtle grass is a gas in a good way. I always saw something interesting.
The south facing walls are good on the boat dives. Corals are decent in most places. The water clarity s excellent. The dive operation is superb. Patty works really hard to get divers to jettison weight. The dive masters are very good. The boats are fine but not great.
The area has good macro life. It has quite a few sea horses. My wife had a life time tally of sea horses she had seen and after one trip had to drop it because we saw about 5 per day. We saw quite a few morays, angels, and macro life. The fishing pressure is high so grouper and large snapper are rarer. We did not see many turtles.
I thought the rooms were ok. The food was pretty basic. The big thing is you can get a bunch of dives in.
The Cayman operations have food on a cafeteria setting like CoCo View and it is pretty good. But if you want really too line stuff, it isn't. The rooms are nice. My wife likes them far better than CoCo View.
These resorts run Newman 46' boats which are superior to CoCo Views. You can do three boat dives per day. Neither Little nor Brac have shore dives. Little has the famous Bloody Bay Wall which is nearly my wife's favorite. My wife is a wall junky. The water clarity is really good but here CoCo View is about even. The dive masters are pretty even too. I like the Deep South side walls at a Brac. They have really good corals, good sea life and often have patrolling reef sharks.
As for sea life, the Caymans have numerous turtles and many of them ignore divers. You see morays and angels but not like Roatan. Also no toadfish which Roatan has and seeing a sea horse is a big deal. But it is the best place to see the endangered Nassau grouper and some of them are quite big. They can even be quite friendly. I see tiger grouper, black grouper and yellowfin grouper too. You sometimes see eagle rays. Sting rays are pretty common. And macro life is quite good.
I lean towards the Caymans for two reasons, for me, it is easier to get to and my wife loves it. But CoCo View is an excellent choice especially if you want to get a pot load of dives in and don't mind basic accommodations. We thoroughly enjoyed both places.
Oh, the bugs.... the bugs did not bother me at Roatan but they nail me at the Caymans. It is just opposite for my wife.
Another thing, CoCo View is infested with humming birds of a number of species. ..... cool. The Out islands of the Caymans have frigate birds and brown footed boobies. The boobies will fly just a few feet from the boat when it is under way.
CoCo View has quite a bit to offer. It has two boat dives per day. On the way back, you can drop off and do CoCo View wall or Newman's Wall. Both are decent but I believe the corals are degraded by nutrients coming out from the harbor. The swim in through the turtle grass is a gas in a good way. I always saw something interesting.
The south facing walls are good on the boat dives. Corals are decent in most places. The water clarity s excellent. The dive operation is superb. Patty works really hard to get divers to jettison weight. The dive masters are very good. The boats are fine but not great.
The area has good macro life. It has quite a few sea horses. My wife had a life time tally of sea horses she had seen and after one trip had to drop it because we saw about 5 per day. We saw quite a few morays, angels, and macro life. The fishing pressure is high so grouper and large snapper are rarer. We did not see many turtles.
I thought the rooms were ok. The food was pretty basic. The big thing is you can get a bunch of dives in.
The Cayman operations have food on a cafeteria setting like CoCo View and it is pretty good. But if you want really too line stuff, it isn't. The rooms are nice. My wife likes them far better than CoCo View.
These resorts run Newman 46' boats which are superior to CoCo Views. You can do three boat dives per day. Neither Little nor Brac have shore dives. Little has the famous Bloody Bay Wall which is nearly my wife's favorite. My wife is a wall junky. The water clarity is really good but here CoCo View is about even. The dive masters are pretty even too. I like the Deep South side walls at a Brac. They have really good corals, good sea life and often have patrolling reef sharks.
As for sea life, the Caymans have numerous turtles and many of them ignore divers. You see morays and angels but not like Roatan. Also no toadfish which Roatan has and seeing a sea horse is a big deal. But it is the best place to see the endangered Nassau grouper and some of them are quite big. They can even be quite friendly. I see tiger grouper, black grouper and yellowfin grouper too. You sometimes see eagle rays. Sting rays are pretty common. And macro life is quite good.
I lean towards the Caymans for two reasons, for me, it is easier to get to and my wife loves it. But CoCo View is an excellent choice especially if you want to get a pot load of dives in and don't mind basic accommodations. We thoroughly enjoyed both places.
Oh, the bugs.... the bugs did not bother me at Roatan but they nail me at the Caymans. It is just opposite for my wife.
Another thing, CoCo View is infested with humming birds of a number of species. ..... cool. The Out islands of the Caymans have frigate birds and brown footed boobies. The boobies will fly just a few feet from the boat when it is under way.
. I guess we can all also agree that we (and those we are traveling with) are all looking for something slightly different.....and sometimes this can change trip-by-trip. 
