If you're fit enough and confident enough to do the swim (about 1 mile each way), you are not likely to be a snorkel vest user.
USS Kittiwake-Grand Cayman
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If you're fit enough and confident enough to do the swim (about 1 mile each way), you are not likely to be a snorkel vest user.
nipi
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It is an approx 22 min swim from Cemetery Beach.
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Dive the wreck of the Kittiwake, a 251-foot long, 5-deck, decommissioned US Navy Submarine Rescue Ship. Buddy teams dive to a maximum of 60 feet, for up to 60 minutes with a computer profile. Instructors are available for guided dives, if requested. Snorkelers are welcome aboard the dive boat and may join friends and family who are certified divers on this excursion. Contact Peter Foster-Smith, Sunset Divers (pete@sunsethouse.com) to make your arrangements.
USS Kittiwake (ASR 13) Wreck - Grand Cayman
Dive the wreck of the Kittiwake, a 251-foot long, 5-deck, decommissioned US Navy Submarine Rescue Ship. Buddy teams dive to a maximum of 60 feet, for up to 60 minutes with a computer profile. Instructors are available for guided dives, if requested. Snorkelers are welcome aboard the dive boat and may join friends and family who are certified divers on this excursion. Contact Peter Foster-Smith, Sunset Divers (pete@sunsethouse.com) to make your arrangements.
USS Kittiwake (ASR 13) Wreck - Grand Cayman
Testudo
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Based on these coordinates of where the scuttled ship is:
Latitude: 19°21'41.05"N
Longitude: 81°24'0.73"W
It is only .42 miles each way from the shore of Cemetery Beach.
Looks like it is just past the fringe of the coral area where I snorkel.
Hmmm. My "1 mile" was just an estimate. Looks like it is doable from shore.
Testudo
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I think "pretty far" is an appropriate distance description. 
nipi
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sure it's possible, but Please be careful... it is definitely a decent swim out in an area where boats (and jet skis) will regularly cruise by at speed heading to west bay dock or back towards town.
It definitely was not sunk with intention to be shore accessible, like the tibbetts on the brac.
I'd say please don't do it, but if you do make sure you have a tall smb or flag.
It definitely was not sunk with intention to be shore accessible, like the tibbetts on the brac.
I'd say please don't do it, but if you do make sure you have a tall smb or flag.
ScubaTigress
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yeah, and make sure you have a pass... if the DOE comes out and does a check and finds you without a chip you could get in trouble
Finally dove it today! Lots of fish on it already... the sand dollars seem to really like the area as well. Saw a strand of 25 squid in single file line chilling off the bow... THAT was awesome!
Finally dove it today! Lots of fish on it already... the sand dollars seem to really like the area as well. Saw a strand of 25 squid in single file line chilling off the bow... THAT was awesome!
Testudo
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