Dive Review of Utila Aggressor in
Honduras/Utilla/Roatan

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Utila Aggressor, Jan, 2012, by elizabeth idell, AL, US ( Reviewer 4 reports with 5 Helpful votes). Report 6464 has 2 Helpful votes.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	We had a full boat with 16 pax (can hold 18 but would be tight.) The rooms were comfortable. If I had one room complaint it was that I couldn't see anything but the top of my hair in the mirror, but then, I'm short. There is a hot tub on the sun deck. Now, I have always thought that a hot tub on a dive boat was worthless. In this case, maybe because we had the right mix of people, we used it often and enjoyed it. Food was excellent and prepared and served by an excellent cook and our purser. The dive deck crew was extremely helpful and always aware of where we were during a dive. Dive masters could not have done a better job, Capt. Nestor, Louis, and Gabby were professional and provided the appropriate amount of help for each diver. Gabby was exceptional at helping with equipment problems (I had one of those kinds of trips.) The diving was really good. We did miss a few dives due to weather early in the week, and an inconvenient plane crash later in the week. Fortunately, the crew and passengers pulled together and the response to the plane crash went amazingly well. Better still and in no small part, because of the response from our boat and the skills of the passengers (2 doctors), there were no fatalities and only minor injuries. The reef was relatively healthy in spite of diminished young fish (maybe the lion fish issue.) The Honduran government had responded by issuing Hawaiian Slings to each boat. The dive masters would prep the fish to feed to groupers and sharks. They also tried to feed them to other fish such as eels with no success (although lobsters loved them.) This might be a good idea if it teaches the native grouper and shark to hunt lion fish--only time will tell. As you might expect though, there are some groupers out there that are getting insistent on being feed. I was bit by a grouper (I was not feeding, nor had I handled the lion fish.) Fortunately, it wasn't a bad bite (didn't bleed enough to attract anything interesting.) There was a really good shark dive, several interesting turtles, and as I mentioned, some friendly groupers. None of these dives were difficult or technical in any way. We had too young divers with us and they had no problems at all. All passengers were diving NITROX by the end of the week. I would recommend this boat and crew to divers of all skill levels. We enjoyed it, enjoyed the crew, and enjoyed the relaxing diving.
Websites	Utila Aggressor
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Caribbean, Costa Rica, Hawaii, Red Sea, Maldives, Pacific NW, and others.
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, dry	Seas	calm
Water Temp	76-79°F / 24-26°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	50-150 Ft/ 15-46 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Normal Sport Diving restrictions
Liveaboard?	yes	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish	N/A
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	We had lots of cameras on board. There was a good camera table with outlets for charging. Dedicated wash tank. Excellent support to pass cameras to divers and take them to the wash tank at end of the dive.

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Dive Review of Utila Aggressor in Honduras/Utilla/Roatan

Utila Aggressor, Jan, 2012,

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Dive Review of Utila Aggressor in
Honduras/Utilla/Roatan