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| Roatan (Bay Islands) |  
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Description:
Roatan, Utila, Cayos Cochinos and Guanaja offer great wall and wreck dives with massive barrel sponges, sea horses, tunicates and whale sharks. | |
| Details: |
 Nearest commercial airport: Roatan international airport |
| Average watertemp: Min 25 - Max 30 oCelcius. |
| Average visibility: 30 Horizontal metres |
| Bottom composition: Sand, Corals, Vegetation |
| Dive conditions: Ocean/Sea |
| Seasonality: bad weather /rain from November through
to February, We are open all year round, 365 days even Christmas day and New Years day |
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Marinelife in the area:
| Species | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | | | Bottlenose Dolphins |  | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | Large groups of Dolphins swimming along the wall, sometimes interact with divers, staying around for a few minutes.
| | | Coastal fish & Reef Life |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Prolific reef life, large numbers of reef fish, schools of Blue Tang, Blue Chromis, Creole Wrasse, common. Large Groupers of all types, common. Good numbers of Lobsters, King Crabs, and
Shrimps and octopus.
| | | Coral Spawning |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Very difficult to time it just right.
Occurs over one or two days, between
August and Sept, approximately one week after full moon.
| | | Eagle rays | | |  | | | | | | | | | | | | fairly common, seen gliding along the wall, often in pairs
| | | Hawksbill turtles | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Very common, stay all year round, more common during breeding season, used to divers, unafraid and easy to study.
| | | Killer whales (Orcas) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rare visitors, But often stay around for a day or two, curious to divers and will come close allowing good viewing.
| | | Long-finned pilot whales (dolphins) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rare, but when they are found, they are in huge numbers (100's) usually unafarid allowing divers and snorklers
within a couple of meters.
| | | Moray eels | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Common throughout reef, specifically
on the wrecks, interact with divers, friendly and free swimming.
| | | Nurse sharks | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Not common, and hard to spot, but they are around, usually good size up to 3 meters in lenght.
| | | Whale sharks | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Not common, but often when sited in groups of two to five in number, usually feeding in amongst a Tuna boil.
with other sharks around. Spectacular !
| | Probability of encounter:  0%,  0 > 60%,  60 > 90%,  90 > 100%
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