Aquarium - Grand Cayman

★★★★☆ (213)

Just as the name suggests - it’s an aquarium of fish. This shallow dive site has the spur and groove formation with sand in the deeper water, and hardpan like bottom towards shore.

Common marine life to see include angel fish, grunts, trunk fish, file fish, spotted drums, butterfly fish, blue tangs and maybe even a turtle or nurse shark.

Dive Activity

Potential Wildlife Sightings

Wildlife Sightings are Based on User Generated Content

The image shown is a representative illustration and does not depict every individual animal in this category.

Total number of species: 27

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Barracuda
28 Sightings
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Total number of species: 200

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Moray Eel
20 Sightings
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Total number of species: 600

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Wrasse
16 Sightings
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Green Turtle
15 Sightings
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Hawksbill Turtle
13 Sightings
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Total number of species: 25

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Eagle Ray
9 Sightings
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Loggerhead Turtle
6 Sightings
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Total number of species: 100

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Parrotfish
45 Sightings
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Total number of species: 90

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Angelfish
34 Sightings
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Total number of species: 130

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Butterfly Fish
30 Sightings
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Total number of species: 80

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Stingrays
27 Sightings
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Total number of species: 130

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Pufferfish
26 Sightings
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Total number of species: 12

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Lionfish
23 Sightings
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Total number of species: 40

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Triggerfish
22 Sightings
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Total number of species: 350

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Damselfish
21 Sightings
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Total number of species: 150

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Sweetlips and Grunts
19 Sightings
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Total number of species: 250

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Grouper/Basslets
18 Sightings
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Total number of species: 90

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Goatfish
18 Sightings
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Total number of species: 2

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Nurse Shark
15 Sightings
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Total number of species: 60

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Squirrelfish
15 Sightings
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Total number of species: 60

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Soldierfish
13 Sightings
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Total number of species: 60

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Spiny Lobster
13 Sightings
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Total number of species: 110

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Snapper
12 Sightings
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Total number of species: 85

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Surgeonfish
12 Sightings
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Total number of species: 3

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Trumpetfish
12 Sightings
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Total number of species: 30

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Sand Eel
11 Sightings
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Total number of species: 8

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Bannerfish
10 Sightings
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Total number of species: 25

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Boxfish
8 Sightings
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Total number of species: 120

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Flounder
8 Sightings
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Total number of species: 3400

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Shrimp
7 Sightings
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Total number of species: 40

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Jackfish
6 Sightings
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Total number of species: 80

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Emperor
6 Sightings
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Total number of species: 7000

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Crab
6 Sightings
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Total number of species: 2

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Tarpon
4 Sightings
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Total number of species: 28

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Clownfish
4 Sightings
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Garibaldi Damselfish
4 Sightings
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Total number of species: 15

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Garfish
3 Sightings
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Total number of species: 20

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Porcupinefish
3 Sightings
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Total number of species: 55

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Lobster
3 Sightings
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Dive Centers Catering This Dive Site

Sunset Divers

390 South Church St., KY1-1106 George Town, Cayman Islands

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Melissa H. (#2528645)

Wildlife Reef (★4.5)

Long stretching coral fingers with big open sandy patches. Hardpan like bottom on shore side; plenty of reef or sand to explore in both directions.
Aqualung

Paradise Reef (★4.5)

This beautiful shallow reef site has lots of hard and soft corals, schooling horse eye jacks, turtles or a sleeping nurse shark nestled among the reef.
Mares, Predrag Vuckovic

Doc Poulson (Wreck) (★4.3)

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USS Kittiwake (Wreck) (★4.7)

The Kittiwake is one of the best-known wrecks in all of the Caribbean, if not the whole world, and sits just offshore from Seven Mile Beach. Due to its shallow depth (no deeper than 65 feet) it’s popular not only among scuba divers but freedivers and snorkelers as well.