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Soto Wreck - Little Cayman - Peter Brink  Cayman Wreck Story - Diver Magazine September 2012 Little Cayman - The Wreck of the Soto Trader MV Soto Trader Commissioned: 1940s. Decommissioned: 1975 Date lost :  04/04 / 1975 cause lost :  fire Dimensions: 120 Ft Length - 30 Ft Beam Cargo at time of sinking: Beer. Construction equipment. Vehicle. Note: no beer has been found on the wreck this century. (I’ve looked)   Reef Divers Little Cayman Conch Club Condos and Conch Club Divers Phone: (345) 948 1026   (561) 283-1715 P.O. Box 58, Little Cayman. KY3-2501, Cayman Islands Conch Club Divers in Little Cayman Phone (345) 948-1026   (832) 460-9127 E-mail ccdivers@candw.ky Little Cayman Beach Resort and Reef Divers http://www.littlecayman.com/contact-us/ Phone: (345) 948-0124 The Southern Cross Club Little Cayman http://www.SouthernCrossClub.com Tel: 345-948-1099 Full Story: http://stephe...

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 ...