Dive Review of Paradise Island in
Honduras/Roatan

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Paradise Island, Jan, 2008, by Mary Wicksten, TX, U.S.A. ( Contributor 17 reports with 8 Helpful votes). Report 3829.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$	N/A
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	Resort has been repainting and servicing boats, piers and rooms. Few bugs--resort sprays daily (but no butterflies, either). Bring cash--very hard to use traveler's checks, no ATM within miles. Food good, not gourmet but lots of it. Fresh fruit, omelettes, fresh-baked pastry and cookies, fish every day. Takes a while to figure out the air conditioning units. Sunning/snorkeling beaches very nice.Resort is isolated from town and tourist traps, taxis costly but then if you make four dives per day, who cares? Shore diving easy and available. Some rain squalls and chop, hang-on-tight current during two dives but this was January, after all. Really good "muck diving" right off the beach and gazebo--upside down jellyfish, arrow and green clinging crabs, brittle stars, cleaner shrimp, etc. Saw my first mushroom scorpionfish! Night dives loaded with critters. Guides are good at spotting morays and sea horses. Many pretty indigo and yellowbelly hamlets, drums, goldentail moray, etc. Saw hook and line fishing locally, not much in the way of big fish. French Key Bank had the most predatory fish (jacks, barracuda, some larger groupers) but this bank also has the most surge, not recommended for real novices. Never saw any sharks. There were reports of one each sea turtle and eagle ray. I saw a stingray scoot off. If you want big stuff, go somewhere else. Resort rents lights but was short on batteries--bring your own if you want to go night diving. Guides were professional and courteous, knew the area well.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	California, Bonaire, Fiji, Australia, Palau, Galapagos Islands, Canada, Cozumel, Bahamas, Turks & Caicos, Yap, Hawaii, Baja California
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	rainy, cloudy	Seas	choppy
Water Temp	78-82°F / 26-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	25-50 Ft/ 8-15 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	?
Enforced diving restrictions	Depth and time limits--depth as specified by divemaster, time usually 50 minutes total
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	Boats had dedicated camera buckets. No onshore facilities except for some film for sale in gift shop. No rentals. NO large pelagics at all, only one big fish (100 lb. snapper) seen during entire trip but "muck diving" worthwhile--lots of small stuff. Hermit crabs, basket stars, shrimp and much more on night dives. Bring your macro lens or attachments!

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Dive Review of Paradise Island in Honduras/Roatan

Paradise Island, Jan, 2008,

Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

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Reporter and Travel

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What I Saw

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Dive Review of Paradise Island in
Honduras/Roatan