CCV (or other suggestions for Roatan)

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We go there every year, at least one week, sometimes more. I have never gotten tired of the wall drop off dives. Once in a while I will cruise along the shelf near the bottom and watch all of the crabs, etc. Sometimes I will drift along at 40 or 50 feet and see what is there. A lot of the time I will not go any deeper than 15 feet and weave my way around all of the coral heads and along the edge of the wall. The latter dive has the most to see by far. This can make you a bit late for dinner sometimes though as it is so easy to spend 90 minutes or so getting back to the shore.

I will never get tired of doing "the same old dive" over and over. There is no such thing.

Later, Hawk.
 
RoatanMan:
Sometimes, we will just sit out on the flats on 30fsw and wait, quietly. Be very surprised who comes by. I have seen Whale Sharks from spots you can easily reach from a shore dive, much less from a ho-humm drop off dive.
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This is my ideal of a great dive !
 
Hawk:
We go there every year, at least one week, sometimes more. I have never gotten tired of the wall drop off dives. Once in a while I will cruise along the shelf near the bottom and watch all of the crabs, etc. Sometimes I will drift along at 40 or 50 feet and see what is there. A lot of the time I will not go any deeper than 15 feet and weave my way around all of the coral heads and along the edge of the wall. The latter dive has the most to see by far. This can make you a bit late for dinner sometimes though as it is so easy to spend 90 minutes or so getting back to the shore.

I will never get tired of doing "the same old dive" over and over. There is no such thing.

Later, Hawk.
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I have never ever had a boring dive - Even in the quarry!
 
I have never been bored on the drop off dives....I always see something new and different and it is always fun to get to know the critters that live there and I go by and see if they are home.....the walls and the shipwreck are familiar so you can spend a lot of time there checking out all the cracks and crevices trying to remember who lives where....
 
Can anyone say that they *perfer* the drop off dives to the moored dives? Just curious why they don't take customers to new sites for all the dives. Especially as you can shore dive the walls and wrecks. Not a huge knock against CCV, but it seems rather lazy.
 
Sometimes they do op for a dive at a second moored site....depends on what the majority wants to do or at least that has been my experience....everytime we have ask they have accomodated us for a second site....this has always been they way the dive op runs things....not sure why, doesn't matter to me as long as I am diving...
 
Rainer:
Can anyone say that they *perfer* the drop off dives to the moored dives? Just curious why they don't take customers to new sites for all the dives. Especially as you can shore dive the walls and wrecks. Not a huge knock against CCV, but it seems rather lazy.
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Prefer the drop off? Me.... and a bunch of others.

A few years ago, I was there for two weeks. Did maybe 70 dives and only took ten or so boat trip dives. The rest were shore dives to the Wreck.

When I got real lazy, I rode the boat out for the 0900 and 1400 dive, but on their way out, I dropped off over the wreck.

Very lazy.

The DM's lazy? It is Honduras, after all. They bust their butts for you all day- and the "beginning of the end" of their day is when they bring that boat back into the barn. Are they motivated to get going on that "ream and clean" so they can go home? You bet- they earn it.

You say "you're curious", again I say... until you've tried it- you can not know. Go satisfy your curiosity. Then- if you can figure out a way to express it to those who haven't tried it, give it a shot.

Once you go, you'll know. CCV is the standard by which you will measure all other resorts and dive boats.
 
Rainer:
Ok, ok. :) We'll give it a shot in the next year or two. Thanks for all the advice!
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There are so many great spots to get to in the Caribbean. What's this about "the next year or two"? Hope you have a few trips planned before that already! :crafty:

What's your "list"?

You still going to Bonaire this month? One of my favorites!
 
Just got back from Bonaire this past weekend. Had a WONDERFUL time. The week before I had been diving 36F water, what a difference Bonaire makes. We'll be posting a trip report by the end of the week. As of now, the list looks something like this (for the next year):

More MA/CA diving (where we both live)
Maine in the summer
North Carolina in the summer
Great Lakes in the summer
Spain in the fall (depends on conference)
Hawaii this winter
Trip next March (maybe Roatan, otherwise somewhere else warm)

That's as far out as we have planned. I wouldn't mind going straight back to Bonaire. The ease of shore diving, the great reefs, coupled with the relative cheapness of the trip (airfare was significantly more than staying, driving, and diving) make Bonaire a great choice. That said, we'd like to try something new as well, so looking for other "cheaper" options where we can get 20+ dives in over a week.
 
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