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Caption: Diving in Grand Cayman Entering the Cathedral
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Caption: Jacques Cousteau once famously likened diving a shipwreck to that of “entering a cathedral.”
Huckberry managing editor Zach Pina recently went to the crystalline waters of the Caribbean — home to some of the best, and most accessible dives in the hemisphere — to complete his dive certification with Cobalt Coast DiveTech in Grand Cayman.
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Caption: The USS Kittiwake is a WWII-era submarine rescue vessel scuttled just off the coast of Grand Cayman's Seven Mile Beach
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Caption: Cobalt Coast co-owner Jay Easterbrook got his dive certification in upstate New York in order to retrieve a full keg of beer that’d accidentally fallen to the bottom of Lake Keuka.
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Caption: The USS Kittiwake wasn’t sunk by a torpedo or nor'easter — its final battle was the one to purposefully put it on the seafloor for future generations to enjoy — a costly, decade-long project
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Caption: "The cathedral," I think to myself. "A hallowed place, deafening in its stillness, yet teeming with life. It instills awe in all who enter, leaving each of us with a sensation of overwhelming smallness." Cousteau couldn’t have been more right.
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