West Bay, Grand Cayman, Ilhas Cayman

Trinity Caves

Trinity Caves is a Grand Cayman West Wall dive named for the three (trinity) deep canyon chimneys that descend through the reef shelf and lead divers out to the wall face. The site begins on the reef plateau in roughly 12 metres of water and follows a system of narrow coral-walled canyons and swim-through chimneys downward to the wall lip around 21 to 24 metres. The canyon walls are wrapped in giant barrel sponges, orange elephant-ear sponges, deepwater sea fans, sheet corals and rope sponges, with shafts of sunlight piercing through cracks above. Beyond the canyon mouths, the wall drops vertically thousands of metres into the deep Caribbean. Resident species include hawksbill turtles foraging on sponges, southern stingrays in the sand patches, Caribbean reef sharks patrolling the drop-off, eagle rays, schools of horse-eye jacks, blue chromis, queen and French angelfish, midnight parrotfish, and the occasional moray eel. Visibility along the West Wall regularly exceeds 30 metres during the dry season from December to May. Currents are typically light, making this an excellent intermediate wall introduction.