Dive Review of Conch Club Divers/Conch Club Condominiums in
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Conch Club Divers/Conch Club Condominiums, Jun, 2005, by Steven Andrew Dingeldein, NC, United States . Report 1760.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
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Value for $$	N/A
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Comments	This was our fourth trip as a family to Little Cayman diving with Conch Club Divers. They are my favorite of many great dive ops in the Caribbean. Bill Christoffers (owner), Tim Jackson, and Ann Walther work together well and OBVIOUSLY still enjoy diving and it shows. They are funny, informative and helpful. Please do not try to outwit Tim especially, because you won’t win. That doesn’t mean I didn’t try, nevertheless. We dived 3 dives a day for 8 days with great weather, very good visibility and saw a ton of stuff. They pick up your gear when you arrive, take it to the boat and change the gear for you between dives. They have a wonderful 42’ Newton dive boat with a good sized camera table. You take your fins and mask to the back of boat, sit down on some benches and they slip your bc on. Up you stand and giant stride away. Bill likes the big stuff in the ocean better and Tim and Ann like the little stuff better so it is great to go with all of them on different sites. Tim is the expert Pike blenny finder and headshield sea slugs (moving dots of dirt) and both Tim and Ann find pipefish I’d simply pass over as sea trash if I wasn’t with them. We saw the usual Caribbean stuff, but so many little things that I dove mostly with a macro 60mm lens. We saw an octopus out in the open feeding which allowed me to get some great photos, manta rays, southern sting rays. There seems, to my eye, to have been a decline in the number of Green Morays in the Caymans over time but saw a few spotted morays. Turtles are plentiful as are nurse sharks and we saw one reef shark. We got to tour the island with Linton Tibbets whose son Dan own the Little Cayman Beach Resort. We stayed at the Conch Club Condos which are still in good shape though the unit we stayed in is due a paint job and new carpet. They still provide bikes to ride back and forth between Conch Club and the LC Beach resort but now you have to lock your bike. That is good as I actually had a bike in good working order with gears that actually worked. Bill, Tim and Ann were great about carting me and my 19 pound camera back and forth as I needed. The food at Bird of Paradise restaurant is still quite good. There was a new chef that has introduced some more variation to their food. The last 2 years the burgers at the Hungry Iguana have been quite good and worth it for a change of scene. I can’t say enough good things about Conch Club Divers. If you want great diving with a great dive op on a wonderful “old” Caribbean island with good food and good service head to Little Cayman. I have stayed at the Little Cayman Beach Resort, The Club and Conch Club Condos. All are great.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Grand Cayman, Belize, Hawaii, Bonaire, Grand Turk, Grand Bahamas, Key Largo
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm
Water Temp	84-86°F / 29-30°C	Wetsuit Thickness	1
Water Visibility	75-125 Ft/ 23-38 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	100 foot max, back with 500 psi
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	Boat is dive friendly. The rinse the cameras with fresh water hose and have a nice sized table for cameras on the boat.

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Dive Review of Conch Club Divers/Conch Club Condominiums in
Cayman Islands/Little Cayman