Hello from Jim and Jim,

We just returned from another fabulous dive trip.  This trip took us to the 3 Cayman Islands , the Grand Cayman Island , Little Cayman , and Cayman Brac.

We spent six days aboard the 110 foot Cayman Aggressor IV.  The weather was fantastic and the Caribbean Sea was calm. The water temperature was 80 degrees. We each did 23 dives in the 6 days.

Some of the highlights of the trip were visiting StingRay City , where we fed the Southern Stingrays, and diving to the wreck of a Russian Destroyer, the MV Tibbets.  The service on board the Cayman Aggressor yacht was outstanding. Three gourmet meals a day were served. A morning and afternoon snack were waiting for us after our dives.  The sea life was plentiful and beautiful. We saw octopus, yellow rays, turtles, moray eels and Freddie the Grouper. Amazingly, Freddie the Grouper allowed us to pet him like a little puppy dog. Jim Moore was chased by a 10 foot long moray eel, which the local dive masters have named 'Psycho'. (picture attached)

Aloha .... Jim Moore reporting in from Kona , Hawaii .  As you might remember from an earlier edition of the HotSheet, Jim Moser and I took a trip in April of 2009 on the Belize Aggressor diving yacht.  We planned the next trip to the Cayman Islands for this December and luckily got a last minute call from the airlines telling us of a little snafu with weather.  We scrambled and got a redeye into Houston then over to Grand Cayman . 

As luck would have it, the Captain of the Cayman Aggressor was the same as our Belize trip and we immediately felt at home.  There was a full boat with 18 divers on board.  They were made up of mostly doctors, attorneys and accountants from New Jersey and Philadelphia who have been friends for years.  What a bunch of characters they turned out to be.  We had another group who called themselves the "Wine Divers" as they have a passion for the grape. 

We did all our diving off the stern of the 110 foot yacht and warm showers, towels and a helping hand were always waiting for us at the conclusion of each dive.  Jim and I are a bit addicted to underwater photography so after we got out of our gear, we headed to the laptops to download the snapshots and identify our critters.  I took in excess of 1,700 pictures and 36 video segments so hopefully some of them made it into this article.

The highlights of the trip were swimming with stingrays and having them gliding all over our heads as they tried to snatch the squid from our hands, trying to avoid the teeth of "Psycho", who had bit 5 people earlier this year, making friends with "Freddie" and drooling over the HUGE lobster who were off-limits to touching and capturing for the dinner plate. 

We got back into port after being out at sea for a week and spent some layover time at the Sunset House dive and resort facility.  The well known underwater photographer Cathy Church has a shop there and we got to meet her and her African Gray parrot.

Best to all of our working and retired friends with A.P.D.