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Ever heard of Pickles Bank (Caribbean)?
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to find information on a location known a "Pickles Bank". Its in the Caribbean, reportedly within a hundred or so miles of Cayman Brac / Little Cayman. My *guess* would be to the north, towards Cuba, but there's supposedly some small uninhabited low-lying islands someplace to the south too, where Braccers used to collect seabird eggs back in the 1920's and 1920's (IIRC, there's a description in the book "Storm of '32"). Since I'm a scuba diver and not a cruiser, I don't have regional navigation maps that would hopefully reveal this location. My interest is because I may have a way of visiting this area to do some dives on it, so I'm trying to find out if its something "interesting" or not: ie, is it a coral encrusted deepwater pinnicle in heavy currents, or is it just a sand flat, etc? Long/Lat, anything else would be appreciated. TIA, -hh |
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Ever heard of Pickles Bank (Caribbean)?
Pickles Bank is located at:
20 deg 23.469 min N 080 deg 27.108 min W about 79.3 NM northeast on course 43 deg mag of Grand Cayman Good Luck Ansley Sawyer SV Pacem |
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Ever heard of Pickles Bank (Caribbean)?
On Apr 11, 11:35 am, "Ansley W. Sawyer" wrote:
Pickles Bank is located at: 20 deg 23.469 min N 080 deg 27.108 min W about 79.3 NM northeast on course 43 deg mag of Grand Cayman Got it. Looks like Cayman Brac is roughly 19 41'N by 79 53'W, so its around a 60 status mile run. Probably be 3.5 hours out, 4.5 hours back, plus the time on station. -hh |
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Ever heard of Pickles Bank (Caribbean)?
"-hh" wrote in
ups.com: Pickles Bank Google is so much fun....(c; I found Abanks' Diving on Little Cayman tel 345-945-1444 FAX 345-945-3319 96 S Church Street Little Cayman Island. http://www.abanks.com.ky/ is dead as their website. Give 'em a jingle and ask 'em! They'll know exactly where it is if it exists...I bet. Larry -- |
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ups.com: Pickles Bank The yacht club might help you find it, too! http://www.caymanislands.ky/vacation...aspx?pid=36171 Hope it's deep enough for those big Morgan yachts to sail over without going aground, again....(c; Larry -- |
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Ever heard of Pickles Bank (Caribbean)?
Larry wrote:
"-hh" wrote Pickles Bank Google is so much fun....(c; I found Abanks' Diving on Little Cayman tel 345-945-1444 FAX 345-945-3319 96 S Church Street Little Cayman Island.http://www.abanks.com.ky/is dead as their website. Doesn't matter if they're DOA, since there is no "Church Street" on Little Cayman. I did some checking and it turns out that the above address is over in Georgetown, Grand Cayman. Give 'em a jingle and ask 'em! They'll know exactly where it is if it exists...I bet. The Dive Operators don't know, but this makes sense because all three (3) of the Cayman Islands are functionally deepwater pinnacles, so there's no diving more than a 1/2 mile or so offshore because you're beyond the dropoff, and with two exceptions, all of them are just dayboats. For an example of the local topology, here's a sounding map of western Cayman Brac; depths are in feet. The island is roughly a mile wide, so you can see that the 200ft line is only ~400yds (1/4 mile) offshore and the 1000ft line is only a mile offsho http://www.huntzinger.com/photo/2003/brac/cayman_brac_depths.jpg Here's another look at the same info (Excel graph); two miles out, you have 3000ft of water under your keel: http://www.huntzinger.com/photo/2003/brac/brac_depths.jpg With no water shallow enough for diving after you're a 1/2 mile offshore and figuratively speaking, "Cuba", the dive operations have generally no interest and thus, no knowledge. The furthest offshore that they generally ever get is to make the 5 mile crossing of the Bogue between Cayman Brac and Little Cayman. I have done some more of my own digging and found that "Pickle Bank" is another name/spelling. http://rwsmaps.griffel.se/CoverageArea.jpg http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/energy/...K/spatial/pdf/ caribbean.pdf http://www.caymannetnews.com/Archive...icles/February %202001/Issue%2060/picklebank.html states: [after an 8 hour transit from Rum Point, Grand Cayman]: "Pickle Bank, located Northeast of Grand Cayman and approximately 85 miles South of Cuba, is actually the top of a submerged seamount about three miles long and one mile wide. The undersea mountain rises up from the ocean floor 6,000 feet below, ascending to within 72 feet of the surface. The shallow water environment attracts a multitude of small fish and reef dwelling life, that in turn attracts the predators in the form of shark, barracuda, tuna, dolphin, marlin and wahoo." Sounds interesting... -hh |
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Ever heard of Pickles Bank (Caribbean)?
On Apr 12, 3:07 am, "-hh" wrote:
Larry wrote: "-hh" wrote Pickles Bank Google is so much fun....(c; I found Abanks' Diving on Little Cayman tel 345-945-1444 FAX 345-945-3319 96 S Church Street Little Cayman Island.http://www.abanks.com.ky/isdead as their website. Doesn't matter if they're DOA, since there is no "Church Street" on Little Cayman. I did some checking and it turns out that the above address is over in Georgetown, Grand Cayman. Give 'em a jingle and ask 'em! They'll know exactly where it is if it exists...I bet. The Dive Operators don't know, but this makes sense because all three (3) of the Cayman Islands are functionally deepwater pinnacles, so there's no diving more than a 1/2 mile or so offshore because you're beyond the dropoff, and with two exceptions, all of them are just dayboats. For an example of the local topology, here's a sounding map of western Cayman Brac; depths are in feet. The island is roughly a mile wide, so you can see that the 200ft line is only ~400yds (1/4 mile) offshore and the 1000ft line is only a mile offsho http://www.huntzinger.com/photo/2003/brac/cayman_brac_depths.jpg Here's another look at the same info (Excel graph); two miles out, you have 3000ft of water under your keel: http://www.huntzinger.com/photo/2003/brac/brac_depths.jpg With no water shallow enough for diving after you're a 1/2 mile offshore and figuratively speaking, "Cuba", the dive operations have generally no interest and thus, no knowledge. The furthest offshore that they generally ever get is to make the 5 mile crossing of the Bogue between Cayman Brac and Little Cayman. I have done some more of my own digging and found that "Pickle Bank" is another name/spelling. http://rwsmaps.griffel.se/CoverageArea.jpg http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/energy/...K/spatial/pdf/ caribbean.pdf http://www.caymannetnews.com/Archive...icles/February %202001/Issue%2060/picklebank.html states: [after an 8 hour transit from Rum Point, Grand Cayman]: "Pickle Bank, located Northeast of Grand Cayman and approximately 85 miles South of Cuba, is actually the top of a submerged seamount about three miles long and one mile wide. The undersea mountain rises up from the ocean floor 6,000 feet below, ascending to within 72 feet of the surface. The shallow water environment attracts a multitude of small fish and reef dwelling life, that in turn attracts the predators in the form of shark, barracuda, tuna, dolphin, marlin and wahoo." Sounds interesting... -hh Sounds like you talk to the fishermen instead of all the folks on the pretty boats. |
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Ever heard of Pickles Bank (Caribbean)?
"-hh" wrote in
oups.com: Here's another look at the same info (Excel graph); two miles out, you have 3000ft of water under your keel: THIS is where SKIP should have taken Flying Pig!....(c; Larry -- |
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