Appeared in DIVER March 2006
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Caymania, DVD by John Boyle,Shark Bay Films,
Caymania
by John Boyle
(Shark Bay Films, www.sharkbayfilms.com)
53min,£15.
John Boyle was visiting an old schoolfriend in Grand Cayman in 1990 when, inspired by the surfing movies his son and his friends watched, he decided to buy a video camera and underwater housing. He wanted to have a go at making something more light-hearted than the usual diving documentary.
His footage turned out to be rather good, although the finished product and his narration is less polished than the films he would produce later.
Subsequent TV sales of Caymania launched Boyle into the film business and he hasn't looked back. Now he has re-released the film that got him started.
Highlights include a dive on an east coast reef where tarpon lead the divers through incredible baitfish shoals.
There is a submarine descent to the Kirk Pride wreck 240m down into the Cayman Trench, and a scuba investigation of the shallower Oro Verde as well as, of course, interaction with the friendly inhabitants of Stingray City. Sixteen years on, you'll still get an intriguing flavour of this Caribbean destination. |
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