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  Three Artificial Reefs. Three Days of Diving. Three Cayman Islands September Issue. Diver Magazine. www.divermag.com   By Stephen Weir The buzz is back. Cayman Islands, best known for their reef walls, gin clear water and a high standard of dive services, is attracting wreck divers these days because of their growing inventory of artificial reefs. Have just three   dive days and want to see the underside of all three Cayman Islands?   There are underwater world-class military shipwrecks   (well, two and a worthy commercial wreck) that have been sunk close to shore to allow for diving almost any day (or night) of the year on Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman. A year and a half ago the Cayman Dive Operators Association sank the USS Kittiwake on the North End of Grand Cayman Island’s 7-Mile Beach.   Ever since, a Canadian run dive shop has been modifying the remains of the retired US Navy submarine tender, to make it both diver and snorkel frie

 .   Up in the Air about Wreck Diving off the Cayman Islands   How To Get There Non Stop Service : Air Canada services the Caymans   from Toronto three times weekly in season, reduced service the rest of the year.   West Jet services the island three times weekly in season. Other airlines: American Airlines (Miami) Cayman Airways (Chicago / Dallas / Havana, Cuba / La Ceiba, Honduras / Kingston, Jamaica / Miami / Montego Bay, Jamaica / New York / Panama  | Tampa / Washington, DC / Cayman Brac) United Airlines   (Houston / Newark) Delta Airlines (Atlanta) US Airways (Charlotte / Philadelphia) Late breaking news Just as Diver Magazine was going to press, Jet Blue Airlines announced that beginning in November it would be offering, three times weekly, service between Cayman Islands and New York and Boston.   Jet Blue is a favourite discount carrier for divers living in Ontario using the Buffalo NY and Detroit Mi airports. Read the Diver Maga

The sinking of the MV Keith Tibbetts - The Russian Destroyer Diving Cayman Brac's Historic Russian Destroyer Off the north shore of Cayman Brac, in 1996, while film cameras whirled, Diver Magazine columnist Jean Michel Cousteau rode a decommissioned Cuban/Russian warship 30 metres down to sandy bottom close to shore. One of the world’s first artificial reefs for divers, the well publicized sinking made a worldwide statement about turning weapons of mass-destruction into eco-friendly tourist attractions! The wreck is the only diveable Russian built warship in the Western Hemisphere.    Prior to sinking, the 285 ft long ship (known as number 356) was named the Captain Keith Tibbetts after a local dive operator and businessman.   The name hasn’t stuck too well, more often than not she is called the Russian destroyer even though she is a much smaller Koni II class anti-submarine frigate. 16 years after her sinking underwater journalist Stephen Weir, wearing a mini-under