Shore diving in Roatan?

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A fabulous AKR shore access dive is often neglected and seldom done. Muck diving is not high on the list for most divers, but the dive around AKR Pier and the inner lagoon is just incredible. A really great night dive, always sheltered from weather... Lots of cool Caribbean critters.

Muck diving has has a couple of hurdles against it: the name, the lack of colors, the creepiness, but this is really an important step in dive skills progression. You can muck dive from FIBR and CCV as well as do the shore dive pretty reefs, but for shore access from AKR, this often overlooked muck dive treasure is well worth it.

I'll be there next month and would like to know more about this. By muck diving, what kind of viz are you talking about? 5-10'? Can't-see-your-hand-in-front-of-your-face? Can you give more detailed info on this dive area and exactly where you enter and exit.
 
Just outside of the dive lockers, where they moor the boats. Flop in and prowl under the pier for starters.

Muck diving isn't so much a comment about viz, it's more the description and character of the bottom... and the very interesting critters that enjoy that niche environment. Lots of what they refer to as "odd shaped bottom dwellers". (not me, the animals and such!)

You aren't going to get a lot of company from fellow guests, likely none. From the pier, looking West into the actual "lagoon" between mainside AKR and the Key- that itself is a great night dive- it's shallow and there's quite a lot of debris, which many creepy critters thrive upon. It's so shallow I have done some 2 hr BTs and came up only because I wore out my batteries on the camera strobe.

Not good for first time night divers. No, not so much.
 
Just outside of the dive lockers, where they moor the boats. Flop in and prowl under the pier for starters. Muck diving isn't so much a comment about viz, it's more the description and character of the bottom... and the very interesting critters that enjoy that niche environment. Lots of what they refer to as "odd shaped bottom dwellers". (not me, the animals and such!) You aren't going to get a lot of company from fellow guests, likely none. From the pier, looking West into the actual "lagoon" between mainside AKR and the Key- that itself is a great night dive- it's shallow and there's quite a lot of debris, which many creepy critters thrive upon. It's so shallow I have done some 2 hr BTs and came up only because I wore out my batteries on the camera strobe. Not good for first time night divers. No, not so much.
As if I don't already have enough entertainment to catch up, *now* I'm gonna have to go read up on every post you've made on the board. Most informative set of posts I've ever read on a subject. And, I now must visit CCV. :) Thanks so much!
 
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