Up close with: Croy McCoy

Croy McCoy tagging a Nassau grouper

(CNS Local Life): Croy McCoy (51) is truly a man of the sea. Born on Cayman Brac, with summers spent at his father’s dive business, Sam McCoy’s Diving and Fishing Lodge, on Little Cayman (where he eventually moved to work in 1984) he learned to scuba dive at nine years old. Since then he has logged more than 10,000 hours underwater during four decades of diving throughout the Cayman Islands. His love of the ocean gradually morphed into an academic and professional interest, leading to a career at the Department of Environment (DoE), and the rare accomplishment of earning a PhD, officially conferred this past December.

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