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Stingray
City, located in Grand Cayman's North Sound, is a great place for
the non-divers to interact with the Southern Stingrays. We can take
you either to Sandbar or to Stingray City, both quick trips from
Cayman Islands Yacht Club. The water at Sandbar is so shallow you
can stand up in it while Stingray City is only 13ft deep! No chance
of running out of air here, just plenty of time to play with the
Stingrays. It
may be that stingrays began gathering in the area decades ago when
fisherman returned from an excursion, navigated behind a reef into
the sound, and cleaned their fish in the calm water of the shallows
and sandbar area. The fish guts were thrown overboard and the
stingrays eventually congregated to feast on the discarded guts.
Soon the stingrays associated the sound of a boat engine with food.
As this practice turned into a tradition, divers realized that the
stingrays could be fed by hand.
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