Doc Polson wreck Grand Cayman

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By Frans De Backer

This Japanese cable-laying barge was used in the Cayman Islands in the digging of the channel for the Cayman Islands Yacht Club. In 1991 The Department Of Environment agreed to sink the barge as an artificial reef along Seven Mile Beach. The wreck was renamed "Doc Polson" after Dr. John Polson who secured the Cayman Islands' first Hyperbaric Chamber at the hospital.

The Doc Polson is 100ft long and sits upright on a sandy sea bed at a depth of 40-56ft.

Published January 2, 2013

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