"Dr." Blackhead,

  Dive Tech in Grand Cayman is a good operation.  They are not DIR, but no
one should hold that against them. :-)  FYI, yes, the marine life is more
interesting at depth.  The sponges are larger, the coral is more pristine,
and the reef itself is much less beaten up than the regular tourist haunts.
250' is a great depth for seeing cool stuff.  I had great experiences with
the staff, Dan Hodgins & Tara Cunningham in particular.

    You will probably see a DIR-ist or two while you're there, since we're
all over the place now (we had the second meeting of the San Diego DIR club
last night -- over 20 people).  In my 25 years of diving around the globe,
I've seen lots of DIR-oriented divers:  No. FL, Belize, Hawaii, Mexico,
Cayman, Truk,  etc.  Perhaps you need an eye checkup, Doc...  :-)

  Toodles & GFY,

	Perry


Perry Armor
Chief Instigator
Divegeeks, Inc.
http://www.divegeeks.com
858.748.9501


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael J. Black [mailto:mjblackmd@ya*.co*]
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 9:44 PM
To: Aquanaut Mail
Subject: Tech Diving in Grand Cayman


It's been nearly twenty years since I dived Grand Cayman,
and in four days I'll return there, this time to do some
tech diving with Dive Tech, a relatively new operator there.
Although I have always considered Cayman Brac and Little
Cayman to be better diving destinations, Dive Tech looks
very good from what I have read and heard, and the tech diving
opportunities in the Caymans are pretty much limited to
Grand right now.  BTW the Russian Destroyer on Brac is barely
a tech dive IMHO.

Two things I intend to look for:  1) are coral and marine life
any more interesting at 200 feet on trimix than at 20 feet on
air?, and 2) will I see my first Doing-It-Rightist? -- so far,
after twenty-six years of diving around the globe, I have yet
to see a single one on any dive trip (I think they exist only
in cyberspace and one or two Northern FL caves).

KMA  ;-)

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