30 Year Anniversary Special

Thirty years ago, a dive boat named Nauti-Cat slipped into the waters off of Grand Cayman's remote East End, where Steve Broadbelt, Mo Fitzgerald, and Troy Burke opened Ocean Frontiers, a little dive operation that would grow into something much larger.

On Valentine’s Day 2026, Ocean Frontiers and Compass Point Dive Resort will celebrate its 30th birthday. What started as three people, a hand-built dock, and a hand-built dive boat has grown into the Caribbean's most-awarded dive operation—but what hasn’t changed in those 30 years then is the philosophy they started with: the best dive boats, the best staff and the best dive sites, making scuba diving and snorkelling safe, easy, and fun, for the experience of a lifetime in the Cayman Islands.

The impact they have made by following this philosophy is embodied in Ocean Frontiers’ history during the three decades it has served the East End and the Cayman Islands.