Eagle Ray Pass, Diving the Drop Off

Eagle Ray Pass, Diving the Drop Off - Grand Cayman

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9 жыл бұрын

In 2014, I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to spend some time working at Cathy Church's Photo Centre in Grand Cayman. Cathy kindly let some of us take her own boat out on our day off to go where ever we wanted. We headed north to one of Grand Cayman's premier sites, Eagle Ray Pass. Located on the north wall it has a dramatically steep and breathtaking drop off to the main wall with a stunning natural archway. It was incredible to look down into the deep blue depths suspended over thousands of feet of water. We enjoyed amazing visibility that day and the whole dive site to ourselves apart from a couple of Eagle Rays swimming past.
Filmed on Canon 5DMkII, natural light, magic filter
Edited in Final Cut X
Music: Tryad - The Rising
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@joekoz3815 Жыл бұрын

I was jet skiing by the western beach. It scared me when the water was suddenly very dark. I went back to the blue/green water quickly.

@Spaethon 8 жыл бұрын

I snorkeled the other side of the reef, but just 10s of feet from the dropoff. If I were snorkeling and met that wall I would have a heart attack! I'm an excellent swimmer, but have a strange fear of water heights. Beautiful video!

@NYorkin 8 жыл бұрын

Is it dangerous swimming /snorkeling / diving RIGHT ON the drop off , as in , do you risk getting sucked down by some strong currents, or what kind of forces are at play right on the edge of the drop??

@Achilles94627 7 жыл бұрын

I agree. Deep water scares the s**t out of me. I think it's the vulnerability and the not knowing what's beneath you...

@Artem_Shipov 7 жыл бұрын

the same about me:-O

@gabbystraub9231 6 жыл бұрын

§paethon same

@michaelocampo2565 5 жыл бұрын

I would love to try and swim down see how far I can make it lol

@jimii2294 11 ай бұрын

we dove the drop off a number of times back in the 70's... at times descending deeper than we should have - mesmerizing, it was so easy to just float & drift down - and look out and see a sea turtle or ray pass by - or a shark, just hanging, hovering off in the deep blue. some of the most incredible dives & experiences I have had in my 66 years. Unbelievable - fantastic... beautiful

@jimii2294 8 ай бұрын

O man, I agree! We started going to Grand Cayman in the early 70s. Cayman Kai didn't have a certified dive instructor - we'd just go with one of the employees. I'm embarrassed to admit that we went well over 200 feet a few times.... unbelievable, and no doubt foolish. But what incredible experiences! Sadly they had someone drown diving in very shallow water, and obviously from then on they hired a Dive Master to run the whole operation... no more 200+ dives, but I'll never forget it.

@smudgy264 3 жыл бұрын

Great footage! I have an affinity for water but deep drop offs scare me to bits, i won't go near one. To me, the drop off is the start of no-mans land. The dark belongs to the creatures of the abyss

@ChantelStays 6 ай бұрын

I'm with you !

@Divetech2 2 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite dive sites in the world….. Grand Cayman has so many awesome dive sites and shore diving is also grand….

@duniordiaz6019 Жыл бұрын

I've always gotten chills when I dive into that pit

@alexserrano2850 4 жыл бұрын

Incredible! Just marvelous. What an experience...

@ameliawarfield5637 2 ай бұрын

Beautiful ❤️.

@Hookiv1 6 жыл бұрын

Not entirely factual....Grand Cayman's Northern Wall drops off to depths near 2,000 feet at its deepest. Only in the Cayman trench will reach depths range 24K feet and that's about 30 miles south of the island. Beautiful video though.....

@SariennMusic73 5 жыл бұрын

The view is gorgeous. The music? Beyond soul touching.

@justinfutch6279 5 жыл бұрын

Ever find out what song that was??

@Artem_Shipov 5 жыл бұрын

@@justinfutch6279 See the description to the video

@nickhingle5534 3 жыл бұрын

That's an interesting ship. I think it's cool/interesting that you can swim through the ships that have drowned.

@SamEbby 2 жыл бұрын

our oceans are incredible. must be protected.

@skyehalcomb5770 4 жыл бұрын

This part in Nemo scared the shit outta me bruh

@xenostim Жыл бұрын

glad I wasn't the only one to think of that! lol

@melinessa_784 4 жыл бұрын

Omg that scares me so much but at the same time I want to experience this so bad.

@Artem_Shipov 5 жыл бұрын

0:25 Very scary😩

@Lightningwolf0925 8 жыл бұрын

Just imagine what is down there

@rcrbrewster7840 7 жыл бұрын

Avenged Rider Yes... Imagine... Many undiscovered species for sure. And Geological featues and anomalies...

@SkyWayMan90 4 жыл бұрын

Not very much

@Seannosaurus Жыл бұрын

i have dreams about these places and i literally just want to shut my eyes and leave when i see them

@cjm081 3 жыл бұрын

While the Cayman North wall is impressive it is not over 25,000 ft deep. At 0:28 you are referring to the Cayman Trench which is located south of the Grand Cayman, nowhere near your dive site.

@3chordwonder857 Жыл бұрын

Dove this many years ago when the whale shark came up the wall and was caught on video by first dive underwater photographers! ...they were extremely startled. Simply amazing. The wall way out did Stingray City or the cemetery reef turtle but the sunset sail from the Hyatt used to be phenomenal. I miss the good old days!

@FintasticFilms 6 жыл бұрын

How deep did you guys go?

@originalkk882 2 жыл бұрын

They used Nitrox (presumably 32% oxygen) so maximum depth of 110ft.

@ChantelStays 6 ай бұрын

This isnt considered deep diving though right ? Like..where you have to be careful of your ascension?

@SPaige4 7 жыл бұрын

Did you have your white balance on auto or manual?

@djaarny 7 жыл бұрын

Steven Paige manual always. Also using red filter to add red back at depth. Need to keep manually changing wb as you change depth

@alejandrojimenez4169 4 жыл бұрын

I was there and saw the trench

@baronblackdragon9078 3 жыл бұрын

Ah yes my daily dose of existential dread

@removefromme 6 жыл бұрын

Great video but coral reefs need to be in a low nutrient environment to thrive. At least that's what I learned when I took marine biology.

@getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917 4 жыл бұрын

1:38 yummy yellow tail snapper

@boricrazyjlg 4 жыл бұрын

Not for me I'll watch it on KZfaq. Too scared of deep dark unknown waters. I'll die if I see that drop off.

@gregc3831 4 жыл бұрын

did all that coral used to be colorful? looks brown and kinda dead :( i feel like its supposed to be full of color

@philipnicholson3216 2 жыл бұрын

loses color below 60 feet or so - when doing photography you need lights to see the color

@originalkk882 2 жыл бұрын

The video has been colour graded to bring back some of the colour, that's why it is brown. Your eyes would see it as all blue at that depth (colours are lost as light passes through water, starting at the red end of the spectrum). Colour grading can't bring back missing red if there is none captured by the camera. Without powerful lights, and at distances of more than c3-6 feet, there would be no red to recover. Night diving on the North Wall can be fantastic. Clear water makes it look like you are in air, and your dive lights illuminate the true colours of the sponges, corals etc.