August-05-2023
Average Air Temp: 82-89°F
Average Water Temp: 82-84°F
Visibility: 80-150+ ft.
Dive sites
Sunday: (Roatan) Valley Of Kings Capt G Mr. Bud’s
Monday: (Cayos & Utila) Seamount, Teds Point & Spanish Bay
Tuesday: Utila) The Cannery & The Pinnacle
Wednesday: ( Rock Star, Lighthouse, Black rock
Thursday: (Roatan) El Aguila, Half Moon,
Friday: (Roatan) 40ft Point
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Saturday Aug 5th
Today we welcome aboard our guests for this weeks charter onboard the Roatan Aggressor. After Check In followed by the Safety Briefing we head to the sun deck to enjoy a Barbecue Pork Rib & Jerk Chicken dinner prepared by Chef Jana with Kevin on the grill and island style music playing in the background. We get to know each other over a cold drink, excited for the upcoming week of diving here on the Roatan Aggressor.
Sunday Aug 6th
Departing the dock at 6.00am we head a east to our first dive site and check out dive at the Valley Of The Kings, Wow what a great way to start our week, calm seas blue skies made for a perfect dive, plenty of critters including Anemone Shrimp, Spotted Cleaning Shrimp, 2 beautiful Seahorses, Green Moray, Yellow Headed Jaw Fish, Banded Channel Crabs, Teardrop Crabs and Snapping Shrimps, reef squid, a huge Great Barracuda, Capt “G” was our 2nd site for the day. The remains of an old fishing trawler lies ar 50ft off the edge of the drop off, another giant green eel, several spotted drums, 4 yellowtail groupers, cleaning stations, a huge school of Atlantic spade fish and a beautiful scorpionfish.
Mr. Bud’s was our late afternoon and night dive site a small Shrimping Vessel and an awesome artificial reef is were we enjoy Peacock Flounders, Spotted Scorpion fish. Taviannas was up next another Green Moray, Scorpion Fish, Neck Crabs, Yellow Headed Jaw Fish, Lobsters, Stop Light Parrotfish, Mantis shrimp, Porcupine Fish, white spotted file fish Hawksbill Turtle. Our first night dive of the week produces Reef Squid, Giant spiny lobsters, Channel Crabs, Spotted Lobsters, nudi’s and 3 reef octopus, and a curious Eagle ray! What a wonderful first day of Roatan diving
Monday Aug 7
4 dive sites today, our morning was sent at Kalvins Krack here we enjoy a monster crevice into the side of the wall with 2 beautiful orange seahorse to top off the dives, Pirates point was our first afternoon dive, blue scraweled file fish, cowfish, schooling tangs and a huge free swimming green eel. 40ft point was a easy shallow reef sheer wall dive and Willies spot topped of our day with a spectacular night dive with crabs, lobsters, sleeping turtle, spotted eel and 3 octopus. What a great day of exploration diving Roatan style
Tuesday 8th Aug
We cruise 20 miles south to the Cayos Seamounts, here we enjoy a underwater sea mountains which rise up from the deep to 45ft. We enjoy large schools of Creole Wrasse, Horse Eye Jacks, Bar Jacks and Yellow Jacks, a Nurse Shark & a Turtle, there are Slender File Fish, White Spotted Trigger Fish and Ocean Trigger Fish and to top it all off we were visited by “Tom & Jerry” our two large resident Nassau groupers who think they are Labrador puppy dogs ? We head west 25 miles to the Island of Utila. Our first stop Jack Neil’s was next this was another Wow! Dive, 2 different parts to the dive our ”Muck” dive in the shallow sand produced all types of unusual critters including a pipe fish, upside down jellyfish, juvenile anglefish, another toad fish decorator crabs and a snake eel. ?
Spanish bay was our night dive. Once again we had plenty of nocturnal critters. Scorpionfish, nudi’s, pipefish, upsidedown jellyfish and 2 toadfish
Wednesday 9th Aug
Our day begins after breakfast at The Cannery a small seamount a couple of miles offshore of the Utila Cay’s, we get to spend time with 2 Nurse Sharks who follows us around, there are Blue Bell Tunicates, schools of Creole Wrasse, spotted eels, green eel Burgers in paradise on the sundeck while we move to the north side and dive at the Pinnacle where we find a giant Mantis Shrimp along with a Caribbean Pipefish, Coral Shrimp a southern sting and several reef squid in the shallows travel back to Roatan
Thursday 10th Aug
El Aguila wreck was our first site of the day a pre breakfast dive at the a 230' long shipwreck and now filled with marine life. Plenty of pictures of the bridge and forward mast A giant green eel, scorpion fish, schooling bar jacks, stingrays in the sand and the surrounding reef was productive and truly amazing with a couple more seahorses and 2 white spotted nudibranchs. We head over to Half Moon Bay Wall was our next site. A series of cuts and a main channel through the fringing reef make for a dramatic dive Lots of Southern Sennet, Giant stingray, , Yellowheaded Jawfish , White spotted filefish, 2 hawksbill turtles, 2 free swimming green eels and 3 scorpion fish. Black Rock was our late afternoon night dive site here we enjoy Green Moray Eel’s, Channel Clinging Crabs. Lobsters along with a Black Spotted Nudi Branch A wonderful last night dive, 3 spotted drums, channel crabs, squids, lobsters and 3 more octopuses wow!
Friday Aug 11th
Cara Cara was our first site. Today we had amazing vis and 15 yes 15 large beautiful Grey Reef sharks that came by to say hello what a great dive. Marys Place was next here we get to explore all the swim thru’s cuts and cracks in the edge of the wall a wonderful dive to finish our week. Once again its time to head back towards the dock our week of diving coming to a sad end. All that’s left to do is wash our gear, enjoy one more fabulous meal from chef Jana . All that’s left to do is wash down and pack our gear and in a Rum Punch cocktail party we celebrate our 5 Iron divers this week, Bill, Kathy, Pau Pau, Phil and Dan
A BIG thank you to all our guests for making this a wonderful safe week of diving Roatan style
Until the next time….. Team Roatan Aggressor







