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Scuba Diving in Roatan, Bay Islands of Honduras

TAKE THE SUBWAY TO SPECTACULAR REEFS IN ROATAN

Roatan is famous among scuba divers for its big variety of coral, which you can see from only a short boat ride away. Some of the best-known and most spectacular dive sites are just minutes away.

Roatan features scuba diving at its best. Thousand-foot walls festooned with deepwater 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. A short ride away on the dive boat, 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 each known segment.

Sound exciting? Come and dive Roatan's reefs yourself.
Our dive masters and scuba instructors are waiting to show you their favorite dive sites.
See you soon,
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If you are not a certified scuba diver please see our info for scuba diving courses

We have two dive facilities on the north side of Roatan at Palmetto Bay Plantation and Turquoise Bay Dive & Beach Resort. When diving with us, out of one of our two facilities in Roatan, you will enjoy the very individual and personal service that only small dive shops can offer. We specialize in tailored scuba diving meeting each particular group’s needs and requests and a PADI divemaster guides all dives. We do multilevel dive profiles with one hour dive time. We are capable of handling a maximum of 15 divers in Palmetto Bay and up to 30 divers in Turquoise Bay, which we take out in small groups of 6 to 12 per boat. At both shops the dive boats leave daily at 8:45 am, 11 am and 2 pm. We usually do one night dive per week.

Both our shops have some of Roatan’s best dive sites like the amazing Dolphin Den very close by, so we come back to the dive shops for our surface intervals. When we go to some of the further dive sites we do a two tank dive in the morning and one tank in the afternoon. We are one of two dive operators on Roatan, that offer day trips to remote places like Morat, Barbaretta, Utila, the Sea Mounts and Cayos Cochinos.

We keep a boat on the South Side to dive Mary's Place Roatan's most famous dive site and to be able to take you diving 365 days a year. If one side of the island is rough we can always take you out on the opposite side.

Have a look at our dive boats.

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For individual dives we charge the following prices
1 – 4 dives $ 38 per dive/person
5 – 9 dives $ 32 per dive/person
10 - 14 dives $ 30 per dive/person
15 or more dives $ 28 per dive/person 

Equipment rental is not included

Nitrox is $ 5 extra per tank or $ 75 per week

See our Roatan Dive & Stay packages

Prices are cash and do not include tax.

When diving for more than one day you are asked to pay $ 10 to the Roatan Marine Park as an annual donation.

Shark dives are available for our dive guests with two days notice for only $ 95.00
(We will make your reservation once you are here)

Roatan Dive Site Descriptions 

Our Dive Boats

Day Trips

Recompression Chamber

Nitrox and Rebreather

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Dive Shop Facilities

Diving Slide Show

Diving Day Trips

We are the only small dive shop on Roatan that offers day trips to remote locations in the Bay Islands like The Sea Mounts, Cayos Cochinos or Barbareta and Morat. We also offer a wreck diving day trip or a whale shark watching trip to Utila.

Dive Equipment Rental

Rental scuba equipment is from Scubapro, Sherwood (Silhouette BCD, Brut or MK2 Regulator) and Akona wetsuits.
All our rental equipment gets serviced regularly to provide you with the best quality gear.

We rent full sets of Scuba diving gear for:

$ 20 per dive

$ 35 per day

$ 160 per week

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If you come to Roatan on a Cruise Ship we offer a two tank dive including pick up at the cruise dock for $ 90 per person.

Cruise ship guest have their own dive boat to accommodate their schedule.

You can reserve your spot now with a $ 20 per person deposit.

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The deposit is non refundable except if we cancel the tour or your ship does not make port

Scuba diving in Roatan in the Bay Islands of Honduras; an unforgettable experience.

Scuba diving in Roatan in the Bay Islands of Honduras; an unforgettable experience.

Note from the Roatan Marine Park:

Dear visitor please help us protect Roatan's most valuable recourse the coral reef. When snorkeling or scuba diving please do not touch or step on the coral as this will kill it and do not remove anything other than trash.
Do not buy shells and pieces of coral such as sea fans or jewelry made from black coral, tortoise shell etc. Even though these items are widely available from street vendors it is illegal. Locals will harvest anything just to make a little cash today disregarding the sustainability of their livelihood for the future.