Cayman Brac, the area around Coral Anchors

Cayman Brac · Cayman Islands · Reef

Coral Anchors

Two anchors grown into the reef at 24 and 27 m

Area photo: EvaZL · CC BY 4.0

Coral Anchors shares a mooring pin with Knuckles on Cayman Brac's north side and is reached by swimming west, towards East Chute. Two anchors are embedded in the reef along the way, one at 24 m and a second at about 27 m, and the coral between them stands in knuckle-shaped heads surrounded by sand where stingrays and flounders settle.

Where it is and how deep

Depth profile of Coral Anchors: typical dive to 27 m (to 90 ft) 18 m · Open Water30 m · Advanced40 m · Recreational limit27 mtypical dive
Depths on a shared scale to 40 m (130 ft); dashed lines mark common certification limits.

19.6935° N, 79.8886° WPublished position for this site.

The dive

Tie into the same mooring pin used for Knuckles and swim west, towards East Chute — that heading is what turns the dive into Coral Anchors. The first anchor sticks out of the reef at 24 m, grown into the coral rather than lying loose on it, and a second sits farther along in the same direction at about 27 m. That is the deep part of the dive, and it comes first.

Between and beyond the anchors the reef breaks into rounded coral formations, knuckles of coral with sand running around them, and the sand is where the dive slows down: stingrays settle into it and flounders lie flat and nearly invisible until they move. Work back east and shallower towards the mooring as the dive goes on, using the coral heads as cover to approach anything sitting on the bottom.

Marine life and season

  • Stingrays
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Season follows Cayman Brac: Seas are calmest Nov–May; Aug–Oct is hurricane season, when sites often move to whichever shore is in the lee.

Sources

  1. Coral Anchors — Scubago

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