Bison
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Had a chance to dive Roatan and Little French Key this past February.
Great time
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Great viz and good buoyancy skills, a rare thing in many videos.
Your title is off, however.
You dove on the Prince Albert Wreck at Coco View and then over to Newmans Wall to the South (out front of FI). This is a regular shore dive from CoCoView, as would be the other side of the channel, Coco View Wall, itself.
That 1984 placed wreck is an intact 140' Nicaraguan tanker that lays intact in 35-65' bottom, tops out in 22fsw. It was named after Albert Jackson, the guy that started Fantasy Island- done as a requested favor by Mr Bill, the CCV founder. There was some reference to "Prince Albert in a can" (made famous again by Bart Simpson), but in 1984, that was lost in translation.
Nearby are the tattered remnants of a still identifiable SAHSA DC3 aircraft. Due to the protected nature of these South side dive sites, such very shallow wrecks have survived for years, unlike the 95' deep placed huge wrecks of the North that were thrashed to chunks in short order.
French Key is about 1 mile to the SW. There is also a great dive in front of LFK that is perfect for rough weather days, French Key Cut (Inside Outside) which allows the dive boat to anchor inside the reef surf, you swim out through it underwater, enjoy the spectacular walls, easy peasy.
Just North of LFK (towards the main of Roatan) lies a huge placed shipwreck that was a bungled sinking by FIBR. It is deep, dark, and not to the tastes of most visitors.
From that actual LFK dive site (as above) you can also visit another intact CoCoView placed wreck, the 65' shrimper known as the Mr Bud lying in 70fsw bottom. Be sure to study the growth, low on the hull, port side.
The majority of visiting divers never see the South side (other than Mary's Place which is not representative) and do all their diving where everybody else dives-the West and West North.
Thanks for this great video that really highlights the extensive growth in this protected, very shallow, sunlit South shore environment.
Your title is off, however.
You dove on the Prince Albert Wreck at Coco View and then over to Newmans Wall to the South (out front of FI). This is a regular shore dive from CoCoView, as would be the other side of the channel, Coco View Wall, itself.
That 1984 placed wreck is an intact 140' Nicaraguan tanker that lays intact in 35-65' bottom, tops out in 22fsw. It was named after Albert Jackson, the guy that started Fantasy Island- done as a requested favor by Mr Bill, the CCV founder. There was some reference to "Prince Albert in a can" (made famous again by Bart Simpson), but in 1984, that was lost in translation.
Nearby are the tattered remnants of a still identifiable SAHSA DC3 aircraft. Due to the protected nature of these South side dive sites, such very shallow wrecks have survived for years, unlike the 95' deep placed huge wrecks of the North that were thrashed to chunks in short order.
French Key is about 1 mile to the SW. There is also a great dive in front of LFK that is perfect for rough weather days, French Key Cut (Inside Outside) which allows the dive boat to anchor inside the reef surf, you swim out through it underwater, enjoy the spectacular walls, easy peasy.
Just North of LFK (towards the main of Roatan) lies a huge placed shipwreck that was a bungled sinking by FIBR. It is deep, dark, and not to the tastes of most visitors.
From that actual LFK dive site (as above) you can also visit another intact CoCoView placed wreck, the 65' shrimper known as the Mr Bud lying in 70fsw bottom. Be sure to study the growth, low on the hull, port side.
The majority of visiting divers never see the South side (other than Mary's Place which is not representative) and do all their diving where everybody else dives-the West and West North.
Thanks for this great video that really highlights the extensive growth in this protected, very shallow, sunlit South shore environment.
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