Scuba Diving at Lighthouse Reef

We are so lucky to live and dive on Roatan. The entire island is surrounded by amazing dive sites with stunning walls, sandy chutes and coral plateaus, and we have over thirty dive sites within a ten minute boat ride from West End alone.

One of our favorite dive sites is Lighthouse Reef, located just a minute boat ride away. Don't be fooled by its closeness, Lighthouse Reef provides amazing walls, schools of fish and some cool macro critters to be on the lookout for.

Come enjoy a dive at Lighthouse Reef with Roatan Divers and see more of the beautiful scuba diving that Roatan has to offer!

Diving at Lighthouse with Roatan Divers in Roatan, Honduras. Filmed and edited by Saaya Sorrells-Weatherford of UMI Productions. UMI Productions is Roatan Divers' in-house media center located in West End, Roatan, specializing in underwater photography and videography training, promotional videos, souvenir videos, and stock footage.

Roatan's Awesome Macro Diving

Now, we know that Roatan is famous for it's cool topography, healthy coral and abundance of turtles and schools of fish, but did you know that Roatan has interesting macro life as well?

Follow us as we explore Roatan's macro world at Willy's Wonder, Butcher's Bank and Lighthouse Reef. Whether you're over the sand or on the wall, there are always amazing things to see!

Episode 2: Macro Welcome to "Top Sites Roatan", an exciting new project between UMI Productions and the Roatan Travel Network! On "Top Sites Roatan", we will guide you on some of Roatan's famous dive sites and introduce you to some of their hidden secrets.

What are you waiting for? Head down to Roatan and see it for yourselves!

Scuba Diving at El Aguila Wreck

El Aguila wreck is one of the most popular scuba diving sites on Roatan, and there's a good reason why. El Aguila was sunk in 1997 to provide a good wreck for Roatan within the recreational limits, and was broken into three pieces in 1998 when Hurricane Mitch hit. Since the wreck was sunk next to the reef, you get a one-two punch of a cool artificial reef as well as a spectacular natural reef covered in soft coral. The reef next to wreck is one of our favorite areas, and we love all the big black groupers and snappers that hang out.

We were very lucky this day, it was just two videographers out at the wreck so we had the whole place to ourselves! Eagle rays don't often come by the wreck but one decided to grace us with its presence that day as well. What a fantastic dive!

What are you waiting for? Come join us at El Aguila!

Scuba Diving at Butcher's Bank

One of the best things about the scuba diving on Roatan is the different topographies that we have access to. You've seen Fish Den and Overheat Reef to the east of West End, so let's head towards West Bay now, shall we?

Butcher's Bank is a dive site off of West Bay, and it's loaded with beautiful hard and soft coral, including nice big sponges for hawksbill turtles and angelfish to munch on. Different sand chutes and sand dwelling creatures keep things extra interesting, so keep your eyes peeled for marine animals big and small.

Come and enjoy the best of Caribbean scuba diving and hop on over to Roatan!

Like what you see? Remember to support the Roatan Marine Park so that they can continue to protect our beautiful Roatan reefs!

Scuba Diving at Overheat Reef

Overheat Reef has, over the past three years, continuously been named one of our favorite dive sites. We love it. We love it so much. It doesn't matter the weather, the current, the visibility...Overheat Reef will always be one of our favorite sites for scuba diving on Roatan.

Watching this video, can you blame us? The abundance of hard and soft coral and sheer amount of schools of fish is just phenomenal, and you have a great chance of seeing turtles there. Come rain or shine, you will always find us at Overheat Reef. Enjoy!

As always, make sure to support the Roatan Marine Park in their continuous work to protect our beautiful reefs. The Roatan Marine Park puts in all the dive moorings, they run patrols to protect the local wildlife and work with the local community to become a conservation oriented island, so they're very important to Roatan. You can purchase daily tickets for $3 or yearly bracelet for $10 from your local dive center or from the Roatan Marine Park Eco Store in West End.

Top Sites Roatan - El Aguila Wreck

Our new Top Sites Roatan video is up on the Roatan Travel Network, so let's throw it back to the first one we did at El Aguila wreck!

Top Sites Roatan - The Seamounts of Cayos Cochinos

The Caribbean has been in the midst of some northerly winds for the last few days, so we're all waiting (im)patiently for some great weather so we can start running our special trips to the seamounts of Cayos Cochinos again!

The seamounts of Cayos Cochinos are a special two-tank trip that we will be running for the rest of the season. As the seamounts are located 18 miles off the point of Roatan, the trip is very weather dependent, but it's an awesome trip and an incredible experience. We do two dives out at the seamounts and go fishing during the surface interval, so there's a good chance for fresh sashimi between dives. This is the one trip where we don't stick to a strict time schedule, so if the fishing is good or a whaleshark pops up, we are there to enjoy it! The trip normally heads out around 8:15AM, and we are back some time between 2PM and 3PM.

The seamounts trip is $110 for a two-tank trip, including the first dive on Enriched Air Nitrox if you're certified for it. We take minimum three people, maximum six, but believe us, it's really easy to get that together. The seamounts can have strong currents, so you need to be an advanced diver for this trip. Check out UMI Productions' video for the seamounts of Cayos Cochinos, as well as their videos for the other dive sites we have to offer, and start planning your trip to Roatan!