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Bay Islands
Dive Sites in Bay Islands
The island of Roatan, in the Western Caribbean, features scuba diving at its best. Thousand-foot walls festooned with deep water gorgonians, coral gardens and barrel sponges, pillar coral, 60-foot deep ledges crowded with blackcap basslets, mini-walls clustered with bluebell tunicates, pinnacles overgrown with azure vase sponges, and shy indigo hamlets peering from niches are all aspects of scuba diving in Roatan in the Bay Islands of Honduras. Only a 5 - 10 minute boat ride away, you will find spur/canyon configurations, coral gardens, ledges, overhangs, caverns, and vertical fissures. Miles of reef leave scuba diving in Roatan uncrowded and many areas have yet to be explored by visitors. Large groupers and moray eels are a common sight. On any given dive around Roatan, one might see a hawksbill turtle or spotted eagle ray gracefully gliding by. Roatan’s reefs are so extensive that it would take months of daily scuba diving to see even half of the known segments.
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Dive Sites in Roatan
Groupers Galley
Experience required: Beginner. Intermediate for swim throughs.
Whether you’re looking for a deep dive, a wall dive or an exceptional dive swim through, this site offers a variety of dive options all from the same starting point. With a buoy marker on the reef crest at 35ft, one choice is to go west and follow the gradually descending wall. However, heading east from the buoy and following the contour of the reef on your right, will soon turn you facing south towards the beach and lead you into the entrance of Turquoise Channel. The channel dive site portion of the dive site offers a small channel wall dive, with the channel being only about 70ft wide with walls on either side that reach down to depths of 100ft. Here you can find Sea Rods and encrusting corals along a rock and moss bottom with inconsistent visibility that can sometimes be murky due to the mixing of lagoon water with the ocean. If you continue to follow the channel far to the south, you will eventually encounter a sandy bottom at 15ft spotted with Sea Stars and turtle grass. To find the “Underground” portion of this site, you enter Turquoise Channel the same way by heading south from the buoy. After about 10mins you will find the entrance to a swim thru at 30ft on the right, for which you’ll want to have a flashlight handy.
Photography by: Robert Herb Photography
Rock Star
Experience required: Beginner. Intermediate for swim throughs.
Whether you’re looking for a deep dive, a wall dive or an exceptional dive swim through, this site offers a variety of dive options all from the same starting point. With a buoy marker on the reef crest at 35ft, one choice is to go west and follow the gradually descending wall. However, heading east from the buoy and following the contour of the reef on your right, will soon turn you facing south towards the beach and lead you into the entrance of Turquoise Channel. The channel dive site portion of the dive site offers a small channel wall dive, with the channel being only about 70ft wide with walls on either side that reach down to depths of 100ft. Here you can find Sea Rods and encrusting corals along a rock and moss bottom with inconsistent visibility that can sometimes be murky due to the mixing of lagoon water with the ocean. If you continue to follow the channel far to the south, you will eventually encounter a sandy bottom at 15ft spotted with Sea Stars and turtle grass. To find the “Underground” portion of this site, you enter Turquoise Channel the same way by heading south from the buoy. After about 10mins you will find the entrance to a swim thru at 30ft on the right, for which you’ll want to have a flashlight handy.
Photography by: Robert Herb Photography
Sponges Wall
Experience required: Beginner. Intermediate for swim throughs.
Whether you’re looking for a deep dive, a wall dive or an exceptional dive swim through, this site offers a variety of dive options all from the same starting point. With a buoy marker on the reef crest at 35ft, one choice is to go west and follow the gradually descending wall. However, heading east from the buoy and following the contour of the reef on your right, will soon turn you facing south towards the beach and lead you into the entrance of Turquoise Channel. The channel dive site portion of the dive site offers a small channel wall dive, with the channel being only about 70ft wide with walls on either side that reach down to depths of 100ft. Here you can find Sea Rods and encrusting corals along a rock and moss bottom with inconsistent visibility that can sometimes be murky due to the mixing of lagoon water with the ocean. If you continue to follow the channel far to the south, you will eventually encounter a sandy bottom at 15ft spotted with Sea Stars and turtle grass. To find the “Underground” portion of this site, you enter Turquoise Channel the same way by heading south from the buoy. After about 10mins you will find the entrance to a swim thru at 30ft on the right, for which you’ll want to have a flashlight handy.
Photography by: Robert Herb Photography
Dolphins Den
Experience required: Beginner. Intermediate for swim throughs.
Whether you’re looking for a deep dive, a wall dive or an exceptional dive swim through, this site offers a variety of dive options all from the same starting point. With a buoy marker on the reef crest at 35ft, one choice is to go west and follow the gradually descending wall. However, heading east from the buoy and following the contour of the reef on your right, will soon turn you facing south towards the beach and lead you into the entrance of Turquoise Channel. The channel dive site portion of the dive site offers a small channel wall dive, with the channel being only about 70ft wide with walls on either side that reach down to depths of 100ft. Here you can find Sea Rods and encrusting corals along a rock and moss bottom with inconsistent visibility that can sometimes be murky due to the mixing of lagoon water with the ocean. If you continue to follow the channel far to the south, you will eventually encounter a sandy bottom at 15ft spotted with Sea Stars and turtle grass. To find the “Underground” portion of this site, you enter Turquoise Channel the same way by heading south from the buoy. After about 10mins you will find the entrance to a swim thru at 30ft on the right, for which you’ll want to have a flashlight handy.
Photography by: Robert Herb Photography
Fuego de mar
Experience required: Beginner. Intermediate for swim throughs.
Whether you’re looking for a deep dive, a wall dive or an exceptional dive swim through, this site offers a variety of dive options all from the same starting point. With a buoy marker on the reef crest at 35ft, one choice is to go west and follow the gradually descending wall. However, heading east from the buoy and following the contour of the reef on your right, will soon turn you facing south towards the beach and lead you into the entrance of Turquoise Channel. The channel dive site portion of the dive site offers a small channel wall dive, with the channel being only about 70ft wide with walls on either side that reach down to depths of 100ft. Here you can find Sea Rods and encrusting corals along a rock and moss bottom with inconsistent visibility that can sometimes be murky due to the mixing of lagoon water with the ocean. If you continue to follow the channel far to the south, you will eventually encounter a sandy bottom at 15ft spotted with Sea Stars and turtle grass. To find the “Underground” portion of this site, you enter Turquoise Channel the same way by heading south from the buoy. After about 10mins you will find the entrance to a swim thru at 30ft on the right, for which you’ll want to have a flashlight handy.
Photography by: Robert Herb Photography
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