Heading to Roatan in October 09

[PadronMan]

Well this will be my first trip to the oft sought out dive paradise of Roatan. The trip will se us at FIBR for a week and will include several of us local San Diego divers. Price is right and we should have enough people to make our own "group".

Anyone been there in the last month or so? Improvements? Personally I am not as picky as some people when it come to ammenities. I was in the Navy and have seen
3rd world countries and found them all to be charming in their own right. We will have divers and non-divers alike and we all look forward to the trip. Hell I am used to 15ft vis and anything over that will be a bonus.

I love wreck diving and plan on diving Nitrox when there. Any advice?

Thanks a bunch. :banana:

Scott

 

[farsidefan1]

I was there in November. I stayed in one of the older units (10 steps to the boat dock) and it was fine by us. The other units are farther from the dock but newer and nicer. The food is very good (neverending ice cream, oh be still my heart) and you have the Prince Albert wreck literally out front. They take you to a drop off point in a small boat and you do the wreck and a choice of 2 walls. Very accomodating. I was there because Cocoview was sold out the week I could make the trip and I was not disappointed. It is literally next door , or island as it were. Anyway, food, service and diving were all very good. PM me with any specific questions. Good diving, (I'll be at Cocoview in 2 weeks).

 

[DET]

My first trip there was in Feb so I can't speak much on overall improvements except they were doing work in the dive training room and on the units closest to the boat docks.

It is a nice resort, but for someone diving all day, it was too nice! Nice beach, I think, and good food. I didn't starve!

I highly recommend the Nitrox. You have the posibility to have 3 boat dives a day and all the shore diving you can squeeze in. The boat dives are all wall dives and can easily average 80' or more for your max depth and somewhere between 1 to 1 1/2 hour surface intervals for the morning dives. You dive your air not time.

I have bug spray for sale. New, never been opened! We didn't have an issue with bugs, it looked like they were spraying some mornings. Had we spent time on the beach maybe we would have had the sand fly (or whatever) bites.

If your looking for non-diving things to do, there's a zip line outfit just east of the resort entrance. The resort has other suggestions, as well.

Have fun!

 

[PadronMan]

My first trip there was in Feb so I can't speak much on overall improvements except they were doing work in the dive training room and on the units closest to the boat docks.

It is a nice resort, but for someone diving all day, it was too nice! Nice beach, I think, and good food. I didn't starve!

I highly recommend the Nitrox. You have the posibility to have 3 boat dives a day and all the shore diving you can squeeze in. The boat dives are all wall dives and can easily average 80' or more for your max depth and somewhere between 1 to 1 1/2 hour surface intervals for the morning dives. You dive your air not time.

I have bug spray for sale. New, never been opened! We didn't have an issue with bugs, it looked like they were spraying some mornings. Had we spent time on the beach maybe we would have had the sand fly (or whatever) bites.

If your looking for non-diving things to do, there's a zip line outfit just east of the resort entrance. The resort has other suggestions, as well.

Have fun!

Thanks for the info. Appreciate it. I will definitely dive Nitrox.

Scott

 

[CODMAN]

You dive your air not time.

When I was there in 2006 this was not the case. The DM called it at 60 minutes, which I fully understand. The shallows are so cool and easily accessible, that you could easily prolong your dives to 1h30min each time, which would possibly interfere with their schedule. So it has changed for the time limits?


Pardon, you,re going to love it. Ask for a room in the newer section. It,s only a short 1 minute walk to the dive Op...

 

[PadronMan]

Thanks Codman I am looking forward to it.

 

[DET]

When I was there in 2006 this was not the case. The DM called it at 60 minutes, which I fully understand. The shallows are so cool and easily accessible, that you could easily prolong your dives to 1h30min each time, which would possibly interfere with their schedule. So it has changed for the time limits?
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Maybe I should retract my statement. However, non of our dives ended by the DM. He was back onboard before most of us began our safety stop. We had a group of 11 people and more than half were instr/dm's ourselves so that may have factored in.