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Cayman’s Kittiwake toppled onto port side after tropical storm Nate

Kittiwake

The USS Kittiwake, one of Cayman’s most popular dive sites, has been toppled onto its port side following the onslaught of tropical storm Nate. Eyewitnesses that dove the site on sunday report that the decommissioned ship is resting along the reef and appears to have impacted the dive site known as San Chute more than once. The artificial reef was sunk in 2011 at a depth of 64-feet, but now appears to be sitting 20-feet deeper.

Local owner of Ambassador Divers, Jason Washington, reports that “[He doesn’t] think it’s safe.”

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