In the morning we usually head out to the western tip of Roatan for a visit to either Keyhole, Pablo's place or West End Wall; all drift dives with steep walls and lots of fish. Almost every dive that we have seen hammerhead sharks on has been in this area. They are especially good for other pelagics including jacks, barracuda, green turtles, rainbow runners and the unique sargassum triggerfish. We also visit the shipwrecks we have here on Roatan, both The Odyssey and El Aguila are home to large groupers and snapper as well as Moray Eels. The Odyssey was sunk in 2002 and is 90m/300ft long with many access points, a very good wreck for training with stairwells inside and out and a large radar tower with interesting macro life attached. Green turtles are frequently spotted here and the reef wall is a short swim away where algae cement has taken over and provides a home for many wrasses and bottom dwelling fish and creatures.

El Aguila, Spanish for ‘The Eagle’, is 70m/230 feet long with a dual-deck cargo area. It’s final voyage was a run from Puerto Cortes to Haiti, carrying a cargo of concrete when it ran aground near Utila and was salvaged. Anthony's Key Resort purchased the ship and sunk it in 1997 as an artificial reef. The El Aguila was sunk in an upright position in 30m/110 feet of water. One year later the storms from Hurricane Mitch broke the ship into three different pieces, creating many spaces to explore and a unique shipwreck to visit. The El Aguila is also home to a large colony of garden eels and the blue parrotfish as well as a small cave system just behind the mooring line.

The second of the day is either a wall and canyons dive up towards the Gibson bight area or one of the deep sandy sites towards West Bay to look for eagle and stingrays. There are many unique dive sites in these areas, popular ones include Hole in the Wall and Canyon Reef; where small cave systems and swim-through reveal lobster, king crabs, large morays, sea slugs and nudibranchs. Bear's Den and Pillar Coral both have steep reef walls as well as caves right at the mooring line, which makes for interesting safety stops. The deep sandy sites towards West Bay are excellent places to spot eagle and southern stingrays as well as the more elusive rough tail stingray. Hogfish, jacks and atlantic spadefish are common here as well as the hawksbill turtle, which we see on almost every dive.

Afternoon dives are more tranquilo, we usually let the fun divers choose where they want to go, popular sites are Blue Channel, Dixie's and Half Moon Bay wall or sites in the shallow coral gardens of Sea Quest, Butcher's Bank and Turtle Crossing. These being especially good for Macro life and photography. Blue Channel is a very special dive site where you can see all the different sections of the reef including the lagoon, which is usually over looked by most divemasters.

All dives end with a logbook & Fish-ID session with our Divemaster,in between you can enjoy a fresh water shower and relax on our deck with some coffee or grab some tropical fruit from the mobile fruit stand in front of the center. The dive shop has lockers available for you to use and all customers can use their rental mask and fins for their own trips, there is a lot of good snorkeling in the West End and West Bay.

If night diving is your thing, we schedule night dives regularly throughout the week. Roatan is famous for it's night dives and home a bio-luminescence that makes lights out on the night dive so much better. Just after sunset, microscopic critters called ostracods set off chains of bioluminescent blue mating signals that twinkle like Christmas tree lights. Dubbed "string of pearls," this firefly-like underwater mating ritual is found nowhere on Earth but the Caribbean.

There are many other dive sites to visit on Roatan, we do 2 tank dive trips to Spooky Channel, Dolphin's Den, The Prince Albert, Mary's Place and many more. Please contact us for more information.