Diving the USS Kittiwake, Grand Cayman
May. 19th, 2019 11:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tiggymalvern
The USS Kittiwake is a 251 foot long submarine rescue ship that launched in 1945. She was cleaned up and deliberately sunk as a dive site off Grand Cayman in 2011. Originally she sat upright on the bottom, but a storm tipped her onto her side in 2017.
As a relatively recent sinking, she hasn't accumulated a lot of coral and sponge growth yet, but they're starting. She was also the only site in the Caymans where I saw midnight parrotfish. (I recommend watching in 1080 for fewer pixel artefacts!)
As a relatively recent sinking, she hasn't accumulated a lot of coral and sponge growth yet, but they're starting. She was also the only site in the Caymans where I saw midnight parrotfish. (I recommend watching in 1080 for fewer pixel artefacts!)
