The impact of recreational SCUBA diving on coral reefs of the Cayman Islands, British West Indies, was assessed from 63 10-m
video transects, filmed on reefs in the West Bay area of Grand Cayman. Three high use and three low use dive sites were sampled at
distances of c. 15, 55 and 200 m from mooring buoys, in addition to three sites where no diving occurs. Both diver numbers and
distance from buoys were found to show highly significant (P