Regardless of whether you are a snorkeler or a diver, this place will satisfy all the needs of people who want to experience the beauty of a real coral reef submerged in the Caribbean sea.
A fun dive to discover breathtaking canyons. The entire seabed looks like a place full of cracks where, walking along them in single file, we will discover the dens of large crabs, lobsters and hermit crabs.
El Aguila, wreck of a 60m long merchant ship, intentionally sunk and lying on a sandy bottom at around 34m since 1997. The force of Hurricane Mitch broke the freighter into three sections, allowing divers easy access to the bow and stern. We will spend about 25 minutes observing the marine life that populates the wreck and then climb up a fascinating wall crossed by canyons and small cracks where surgeon fish and sergeant majors stay.
Shortly after passing the West Bay beach, the morphology of the seabed is made up of a beautiful cliff that descends regularly to 25 meters and then becomes more compact and quickly reaches 40 meters in depth. The encounter with groupers and barracudas completes the beauty of this environment where splendid branches of paramuricea and sponges of various colors will stimulate us to seek other beauties of the Roatan sea.
Just past the West End, we find Fish Den, a simple dive, full of life and above all very fun. Superb for finding moray eels, turtles, eagle rays and microlife.
We are located on the southern side of the island, a few minutes’ walk from the western tip. At this point the coral reef falls into the blue forming a suggestive wall. Once immersed we will find ourselves swimming in a beautiful seabed where the wall alternates with strips of sand and extensive colonies of gorgonians and whip corals fill every ravine of the seabed with life. Excellent point to spot passing pelagic fish and large snappers.
a small crack connects us to the wall on the bottom of which a colony of garden eels has given its name to this dive. Parrotfish and surgeonfish populate this reef that extends in front of the village. Beautiful at night where you can witness a true explosion of colors of the sponges, a favorite habitat for a multitude of shrimps. Lobsters and squirrel fish are easy encounters.
A crack in the coral, suggestive landscape. Deep dive.
Very few minutes of navigation separate us from one of the richest walls of Roatan. The dive takes place following a wonderful drop-off where from the first meters we will be surrounded by groups of damselfish, the current will then accompany us among schools of jacks and snappers; it is not uncommon to encounter stingrays and sea eagles. Barracudas and groupers inhabit the plateau covered with sponges and gigantic gorgonians. Visibility usually very high. A dive not to be missed, reserved for divers with advanced training.
In front of the enchanting bay of Half Moon Bay there is a semi-circular wall that slopes from 7 meters to 20. Here a balcony extends along the edge of the drop-off. In the presence of moderate currents the spectacle becomes even more interesting: groupers and snappers hidden among the large black gorgonians take advantage of this to hunt.
The geography of this place is notable. a round break forms a channel within which visibility is generally poor compared to the rest of the island, a true work of art of nature with all possible profiles for recreational diving.
Shallow immersion but full of emotions. We start with a tunnel that takes us to the wall at 17 meters and then after a few minutes we go up one of the many canyons up to the bear’s den, a real passage cave, where the hatchet fish that populate it make our way along the corridors. Plays of light create suggestive sensations.
The dive point is classified as one of the best sites in Roatan, incredible from a landscape point of view, offering excellent opportunities for encounters with large groupers and barracudas.
The dive is reserved for advanced level divers, given the cave penetration without direct access to the surface.
The maximum depth is 30 meters, and the duration of the dive is approximately 45 minutes.
It is located 30 minutes by boat from West Bay and is one of the furthest points from the TGI Diving Center.
It is one of the most interesting dives in front of the West End. You descend along the top to reach a sandy clearing at 5m, home to sole and mullet. Not far away the plateau gives way to the blue of the ocean where, if you look carefully, you can see the passage of familiar pelagic fish.
A natural channel that opens from the wall towards the shore, forming a parallel circuit of caves connected one behind the other with light entrances that give a cathedral effect to the reflection of millions of sardines that open as the diver approaches.
A shallow dive characterised by the sandy bottom, with pinnacles of coral protruding upwards and very good chances to see turtles here. Perfect for no experienced diver that want to have the chance to see big fishes like Eagle Ray.
The Gorgonia coral reef offers one of the most fantastic spectacles on the entire southern coast of Egypt.
Plateaus and coral gardens alternate in an explosion of colours, fish of all sizes and breeds can be found. From trevally to barracuda, from moray eels to turtles, the sly coral groupers resting under the table coral, eagle rays, anemones with clown fish. Dive available with guide (first x check mandatory) or in couple system, minimum certification for this OWD solution with 20 recorded dives. With different entrances multiple dives are possible both North and South. The entry jetty allows for diving at all hours of the day. No matter if you are an experienced diver or a beginner, Roatan shark diving is a an almost unique opportunity to observe sharks up close in their natural environment, in an unbeatable dive classified among the 100 most beautiful dives in the world.
“Cara a Cara Point” is a dive located on the south side of the island of Roatan, reachable in about 20 minutes by bus and about 15 minutes by boat from the TGI Diving base. The dive site is located approximately 2 nautical miles off the coast of Roatan, therefore sea conditions may be rough. TGI Divina Roatan recommends to all its divers at least one acclimatization dive before diving at “Cara a Cara Point”. In any case, a professional TGI guide is always accompanying this elusive dive, so as to make it safe and fun.
Furthermore, the dive site reserves an incredible biodiversity, and it is also possible to observe countless gigantic sponges, large groupers, lobsters, barracudas, jacks and sometimes even hammerhead sharks.
The most common shark species at “Cara a Cara Point” is the famous Caribbean Gray Reef Shark (Charcarinus Perezi).
SOME INFORMATION ABOUT SHARKS:
There are 355 different species of sharks, all very different from each other, divided into 8 different orders.
Sharks are without a doubt the undisputed kings of all the seas, they are ancient creatures to which evolution has given the most refined instinct on the planet. The size varies from species to species, some of them do not exceed 40 cm, while other species such as the whale shark can exceed 16 meters in length.
These creatures have unique sensory organs in the animal kingdom, which make them capable of perceiving very small quantities of substances dissolved in water, of listening to sounds coming from kilometers away and even of picking up the electric fields that every living being emits during movement.
Sharks include all 3 known types of embryonic development, some lay Eggs (Oviparous), some are Ovoviviparous and some are Viviparous.
This incredible biological variety still makes the classification of these living machines difficult and many things about them are still shrouded in mystery.
How are the packs organised? Where do they go when they migrate? Which species are still hidden in the depths of the sea? The more we study them, the more we realize that there are more questions than answers, but one thing is certain, they deserve all the respect from human beings, who until now have done nothing but hunt them or degrade their environment, without understanding that sharks are the real victims of this water planet.
