DNS Diving
DNS Diving
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8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Monday
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Tuesday
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Wednesday
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Thursday
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Friday
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Saturday
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Sunday
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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DNS Diving is committed to helping you discover the most amazing dive sites in Grand Cayman, from the sheer drop offs of our famous walls, to the adventurous wrecks and breathtaking reefs that have made Grand Cayman one of the top diving destinations in the world. DNS Diving (formerly known as: Dive N’ Stuff) was founded in 1993 by divers for divers. Our goals are simple; smaller dive groups, longer bottom times and safe, easy, flexible diving, all of which enable us to provide more personal attention to our divers and build great friendships. From a beach pick-up by boat outside your hotel or condo, to our friendly and knowledgeable staff setting up your dive equipment; we ensure that our guests keep coming back year after year. All our dives are guided by our professional instructors, but you are free to dive with a buddy at your own pace if you prefer.
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Clare P
Glasgow, UK99 contributions
May 2024 • Couples
DNS Diving is a fabulous company for diving the amazing reefs in Grand Cayman. This year was our 5th holiday of diving with DNS and, yet again, we have been spoilt by the brilliant staff and the superb dive locations. Utterly professional and entirely safety focused, we have enjoyed 12 dives over 6 diving days and have loved every dive. I also completed my PADI Rescue Diver course and was expertly coached and assessed by Moises. If you want to dive with a customer-focused, safety-orientated and happy dive crew, then look no further that Callie, Paul, Moises and Dusty at DNS Diving.
Written May 9, 2024
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LucyBrit
15 contributions
Jun 2024 • Friends
Paul and Moises were fantastic. I hadn’t been in a dive since 2021 and Paul put me at ease immediately! He stayed by my side until he could tell I was calm and ready! First dive was to 100’ (my first that deep!) He has a great calming/relaxing personality that made my dive so much better!! Second dive was with Moises and he was great at pointing out interesting sights and videoing us and just having fun! We LOVED every minute of our day. Our 2 friends went snorkeling while we were diving so everyone had a wonderful time. They were so attentive and helpful and reassuring.
Written June 26, 2024
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RBKiawah
4 contributions
Mar 2024 • Friends
This was our second experience with DNS. First time was 6 years ago and then returned this month. Dusty runs an excellent operation. Calle, Adly and Moises were our crew for three morning dives and Moises led us on a night dive. They are a great crew. Picked us up at our condo at Grandview promptly each day. We go on an annual dive trip to the Caribbean and DNS is one of my favorite companies to deal with
Written March 26, 2024
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Tammy B
2 contributions
Jun 2024 • Family
Great experience! My husband and I hadn’t been on a dive for 2 years. Paul took us out for a refresher dive. He was knowledgeable, patient, thorough, and kind. The next day we went on a 2 tank dive with Paul, Moises, and Kallie, and 2 other couples. We loved every minute! The instructors were great. Also, booked all this the week of our trip and so thankful they were able to make room for us!
Written June 16, 2024
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Jdjanicki
Land O Lakes, FL10 contributions
Jun 2024 • Family
DNS is an extremely well run dive operation! This is our fifth year diving with them and they never disappoint. Unbelievable service, friendly captain, crew and instructors. The most educational and informative experiences that we’ve ever had! Each dive was a 10/10! Shout out to Calle, Paul and Moises 👍 Thanks for making our trip perfect!
Written June 17, 2024
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Amelie Mainville
8 contributions
Mar 2023 • Family
What an amazing week with DNS Diving team! 2 tank dives in the morning to multiple sites around the island! Saw eagle rays, turtles, eels, and lots of beautiful coral and fish types (puffer, angel, parrot fish etc.) Instructor was excellent in certifying my daughter. Private charter to stingray city, starfish point and mudslides at Kaïbo was so much fun!!! 100% recommend DNS Diving activities!
Written March 4, 2023
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azstinger11
Cardiff-by-the-Sea, CA26 contributions
Jun 2022
Had a great time with Dani, Kalle, and Georgia. All the dive days for us were off the Arieality boat. Due to weather we were primarily confined to the North area. Transportation was provided in a nice van round trip all the days, which was great. If you left your gear with the crew then it was waiting for you all set up and had been washed. If you took your gear home for a shore dive or something they would handle the setup for you. Boat was in good working order and comfortable. Amenities on the boat are limited, but mostly due to vessel size. No onboard bathroom and water bottles instead of a cooler (COVID related I believe as there looked to be a spot for a jug). Plenty of spare parts and kit for a breakage or being forgetful, nice dedicated camera bucket, and dedicated mask rinse bucket. After your dive site brief divers will sit on the railing over the swim step. As you are putting your fins on the crew will grab your tank/BCD and have it ready for you don. It's a very nice setup and easy even for those of us with back injuries. Giant stride and you are in the water. After conducting a tour to the highlights of the dive, the guide will get you back to the boat anchor and point it out, you are then allowed to stay down air/ndl/buddy permitting. Getting back on is easy as the ladder is wide and stable (fins off, either hand them up or around your wrists), they can also accommodate you taking off your BCD in water. Dive site info was written on a slate over the v birth which was great for completing logs. Overall we had a phenomenal trip and would highly recommend them.
Written June 20, 2022
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Derrick M
St. Thomas19 contributions
Oct 2022 • Solo
I visited shortly after hurricane Ian brushed the island. The owner communicated well the situation and after delaying a day I did four days in a row with conditions improving each day. My Pick up from my hotel was prompt, the staff was friendly and fun. I Hope to return before too long and experience Grand Cayman diving again with the guidance of DNS.
Written October 7, 2022
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todd p
Redmond, WA5 contributions
Jan 2020
I have been diving throughout the Caribbean for over 30 years, lots of experience with dive operators. On this trip our family divers range from experienced to complete novice. The guys at DNS made the experience extremely enjoyable for all levels. It was my daughters first dive and she was a bit nervous. Those first experiences are so critical, a positive experience can open up a life long love of diving. My daughter came back beaming and couldnt wait to dive again.
They are knowledgeable, practice safe protocols and yet create a very relaxed and positive vibe on the boat. One thing I personally liked, these guys are organized and highly punctual.
Their equipment is in good shape, as are the dive boats. We used the smaller of the two vessels which held a maximum of 8 divers. The boat was comfortable and I never felt crowded. Nice touch serving homemade cookies between dives.
Cant recommend them enough. Kittywake, Round Rock and Peppermint are fantastic dive sites you should see with DNS!
They are knowledgeable, practice safe protocols and yet create a very relaxed and positive vibe on the boat. One thing I personally liked, these guys are organized and highly punctual.
Their equipment is in good shape, as are the dive boats. We used the smaller of the two vessels which held a maximum of 8 divers. The boat was comfortable and I never felt crowded. Nice touch serving homemade cookies between dives.
Cant recommend them enough. Kittywake, Round Rock and Peppermint are fantastic dive sites you should see with DNS!
Written January 11, 2020
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Paige N
2 contributions
Mar 2023
My husband and I were fortunate enough to do our open water certification check out dives in Grand Cayman, and our local friend (who was a dive master on the island for many years) recommended DNS Diving to us and it could not have been a better experience.
With just a few emails a couple weeks before we got to Cayman, DNS's owner Dusty set us up for our two check out dives on the Weds and Thurs after we arrived, and also scheduled us for another "fun" dive on Mon before we departed.
We had a car while on the island so we went to the office beforehand (they're located in the center of Seven Mile Beach), filled out all our certification paperwork, handed over our open water referral paperwork from our local dive shop, and met our dive master Koldo.
Koldo was awesome! Our first two dives were afternoon shore dives off Macabuca, and after he'd covered all the things we'd do in the water to show we were ready to be certified, we went right in, did our check out things, and saw sting rays, parrot fish, barracuda and so much more wildlife than I can even remember just over the reef along the way. On our second dive a sea turtle even swam right past us and Koldo got a great video of it cruising by without a care in the world.
Our second day of diving was even better when we did two morning dives on the DNS boat at a couple of sites off of Seven Mile Beach. In addition to Koldo, we also had two more DNS dive masters, Kalle and Lucy (also great folks!), and a couple of experienced divers with us then. Once we'd covered what we needed to for our certification it was fun dive time, and again, the Three Caves and Banana Boat dive sites we visited did not disappoint: so many fish, so much bright coral, such clear water - what a sight to behold.
I'm happy to say we passed our open water certifications with flying colors. Koldo gave us full marks and showed us some cool tips and tricks he'd picked up being a commercial diver for a number of years in Europe.
Our final 2 tank dive the next Monday was great as well. This time, we went with Kalle and Koldo and our buddy who lives in Grand Cayman to the north side of the island and dove Ronnie's Nemesis and the Queen's Throne. On these dives we saw a couple of reef sharks swim past, a good amount of lion fish hiding in crevices in the reef, spiny lobster, and more.
In between dives on the boats there were towels, bottles of water, cookies(!), and good stories about the sites we were diving. It was a true top notch experience and I look forward to when we can go back and explore more dive sites on Grand Cayman with DNS. If it's even half as good as our first trip, it'll be fantastic.
With just a few emails a couple weeks before we got to Cayman, DNS's owner Dusty set us up for our two check out dives on the Weds and Thurs after we arrived, and also scheduled us for another "fun" dive on Mon before we departed.
We had a car while on the island so we went to the office beforehand (they're located in the center of Seven Mile Beach), filled out all our certification paperwork, handed over our open water referral paperwork from our local dive shop, and met our dive master Koldo.
Koldo was awesome! Our first two dives were afternoon shore dives off Macabuca, and after he'd covered all the things we'd do in the water to show we were ready to be certified, we went right in, did our check out things, and saw sting rays, parrot fish, barracuda and so much more wildlife than I can even remember just over the reef along the way. On our second dive a sea turtle even swam right past us and Koldo got a great video of it cruising by without a care in the world.
Our second day of diving was even better when we did two morning dives on the DNS boat at a couple of sites off of Seven Mile Beach. In addition to Koldo, we also had two more DNS dive masters, Kalle and Lucy (also great folks!), and a couple of experienced divers with us then. Once we'd covered what we needed to for our certification it was fun dive time, and again, the Three Caves and Banana Boat dive sites we visited did not disappoint: so many fish, so much bright coral, such clear water - what a sight to behold.
I'm happy to say we passed our open water certifications with flying colors. Koldo gave us full marks and showed us some cool tips and tricks he'd picked up being a commercial diver for a number of years in Europe.
Our final 2 tank dive the next Monday was great as well. This time, we went with Kalle and Koldo and our buddy who lives in Grand Cayman to the north side of the island and dove Ronnie's Nemesis and the Queen's Throne. On these dives we saw a couple of reef sharks swim past, a good amount of lion fish hiding in crevices in the reef, spiny lobster, and more.
In between dives on the boats there were towels, bottles of water, cookies(!), and good stories about the sites we were diving. It was a true top notch experience and I look forward to when we can go back and explore more dive sites on Grand Cayman with DNS. If it's even half as good as our first trip, it'll be fantastic.
Written March 19, 2023
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Does anyone know where they depart from. I joined a dive at the last minute and lost information about the departure location. Thanks.
Written February 19, 2020
Different sites have different departure points! Here is their phone number, enjoy!
Andrew
+1 (345) 916-2490
Written February 20, 2020
How many divers are on each boat?
Written October 8, 2018
There was 7 on the two dives we took, one was getting trained by one of the crew so only 6 with the dive master
Written December 29, 2019
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