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Bloody Bay Wall

Little Cayman, Cayman Islands · 6–40m · intermediate · semi

A wall that starts shallow and drops vertically into open ocean, with sponges and gorgonians along the face.

Conditions today

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marginal

Marginal — 0.8m effective waves made worse by short-period chop.

Limiting factor: period

Wave height
0.8–1m
Wave period
5.8–6.3s
Wind chop
0–0.4m
Sea temp
30.7–31.1°C

Ranges span today's hours. Wave height here is the raw sea state — the rating scales it for how exposed the site is. Semi-exposed — partial protection, so swell is scored at three-quarters of its open-water height.

Next few days

  • TodayMarginal — 0.8m effective waves made worse by short-period chop.marginal
  • FridayMarginal — 0.6m effective waves made worse by short-period chop.marginal
  • SaturdayMarginal — 0.6m effective waves made worse by short-period chop.marginal

Each day is scored over its morning dive window, the same as today's rating.

Dive briefing

AI-generated

The wall starts in six metres and drops vertically into open ocean, lined with sponges and gorgonians. Conditions are marginal today: short-period chop is making things uncomfortable, though the raw swell is running 0.8–1.0m. This is an intermediate site, and the rating reflects what you'll find in the water rather than a reason to stay ashore, but expect a choppy ride topside.

Divers commonly log Nassau grouper and Caribbean spiny lobster here, along with hawksbill sea turtles, great barracuda, and lionfish. Schoolmaster snappers and Atlantic blue tangs are often recorded. Water temperature is 30.7–31.1°C.

Written by Claude (claude-haiku-4-5-20251001) from the rating, forecast, and sightings on this page — it has no other source and cannot look anything up. Treat it as a summary, not as local knowledge.

Commonly seen here

Most-recorded species near this site, ranked by research-grade iNaturalist sightings from divers, snorkelers, and naturalists.

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