Getting Excited for a Roatan Aggressor Trip in Mid Feb

[therookie]

I tried to submit it but I think it didn't go through since it's too far from depart?

Most likely. It has to be submitted no earlier than five days before departure. One other thing with that form (although maybe they have fixed this now - for the names there is a "second surname" field which is meaningless to most of us from North America but is a required field because all Hondurans have at least four names as their legal name. I have always had to put "N/A" in that last field to get the form to go through without errors.

getting malaria AND dengue there

The risk of contracting dengue has reduced significantly since the state of emergency over dengue was declared (I think last July or thereabouts), even on the mainland. From what I understand the Bay Islands especially, being such a heavy tourist destination and the tax dollars resulting from the sales revenue to said tourists being very important to the government of Honduras, received more help than other parts of the country in combating the disease. For malaria - in twenty years I have never personally met anyone here that has contracted it (although I live at an altitude that the mosquito that transmits it doesn't like). As you indicated, these are mostly landlubber problems - on the Aggressor you are so far from shore most of the time that mosquitos are nowhere to be seen.

 

[mcohen1021]

We did the roatan aggressor in 2020, it was our official COVID scuba trip... Trip was deeply discounted at 1999 because nobody was traveling but we also had to fork out $250 a piece for COVID tests at the time... We also then got stranded in roatan during hurricane Eta

Trip notes:

1. food was good, chef was milton, assistant janelle (was hilarious)

2. We did not get to dive utila - they said bc of covid, they did not have permission (sounded like a BS excuse bc we paid 1999 pp)

3. Captain Eddy I believe has moved onto the BA4

4. Several of the crew members were a little too touchy feely with women on the boat, but that won't be a problem for you traveling solo

5. Willie - the new captain and scuba instructor - not in the greatest of shape... and bc he felt the currents were too strong, pulled us away from the sea mounts - which was supposed to be the highlight of the trip. At least to me anyways.

6. Cara a Cara - this will be the only dive you'll see a shark - and this is bc they take a bucket of chum down.

This is the only time I will do that dive, I think it's awful because many of the sharks are swimming around with fishing leaders in their mouths from being fished after the tourists leave

Overall the diving in roatan is awesome...

Be sure to have one of the dive masters find a pair of sailfin blennies where they can put them close to each other and you can watch them spar.

here is one of my 3 min Cara a Cara videos - you'll see a few with fishing leaders in their mouths


And here is the 20 min Aggressor Trip Video:

 

[the_catalpa]

Thanks to everyone for posting videos, tips, etc., very excited to fly out tomorrow morning!

Will try to take some pics and videos. So excited for this. I REALLY need this right now!

Dive dive dive!