Saturday
Guests from the United States, Australia, Germany, and Japan joined us for this week's adventure diving the Bay Islands. Everyone seemed excited as they arrived at the dock. There were some familiar faces and many new ones, but every person wore a big smile, eager for the week ahead.

Guests set up their dive equipment and camera gear, then settled into their guest rooms. Chef Jana, with Kevin working the grill, served up a delicious island-style dinner of jerk chicken and BBQ pork ribs with all the sides while guests relaxed and got to know one another. We were all excited for a fantastic week of diving.

Sunday
It was an early departure from the dock, with the engines kicking on at 4:30 AM. We made our way to the north side of the island to Taviana's Wall, where four turtles welcomed us. Welcome back to exploring our beautiful ocean, divers! We also found a couple of free-swimming green morays, groupers, snappers, creole wrasse, neck crabs, pipefish, and mantis shrimp. Congratulations to Mike for completing his 100th dive!

For our afternoon dives, we headed to Half Moon Bay. At this popular site we found more turtles, sailfin blennies, a very big honeycomb cowfish, barracuda, a big channel crab, lots of triggerfish, and many different parrotfish.

For our night dive we headed back to Taviana's. Our first night dive was a good one. We found an octopus, brittle starfish, parrotfish, and a moon snail.

Monday
It was another early morning for us here at the Roatan Aggressor. We hopped in the water before breakfast at the famous wreck El Aguila. This beautiful ship, sunk in 1997 for diving, still has its mast standing straight up, despite Hurricane Mitch's attempt to take it down. The hurricane did leave her in three separate pieces, but her mast remains, and we took full advantage of the chance for some great camera shots.

Next we moved to Spooky Channel for two dives. We had lots of fun swimming through all the cracks and crevices, with sightings of lobsters, snappers, groupers, channel clinging crabs, spotted drums, and hundreds of schooling silver fish that we swam directly through. Many guests said this unique topography dive was their favorite so far.

Tuesday
Early rising again as we splashed into the Odyssey, a sunken freighter that spans 300 ft (91 m) of interesting penetrations and marine life. Next we headed to Eel Garden, where we came upon two eagle rays, tons of brittle sea stars, and one giant furry sea cucumber.

For our afternoon and evening dives, we settled in at Black Rock. We had sightings of endless creole wrasse, groupers, snappers, moray eels, lettuce sea slugs, lobsters, crabs, two spotted eagle rays, a longsnout seahorse, and much more. During the night dive we found endless lobsters, crabs, basket stars, and an octopus.

Wednesday
We sure are getting good at these early mornings. We set sail bright and early for Cayos Cochinos at 4:30 AM. Arriving for our dives at 7 AM, we were ready to splash at 8. We saw two nurse sharks, tons of blue creole wrasse, flamingo tongues, trumpetfish, spadefish, lionfish, little filefish, and too much more to name.

During lunch we made our way to the island of Utila and Jack Neals for our afternoon dives. There we saw stingrays, blennies, crabs, nudibranchs, lobsters, upside-down jellies, and a bearded toadfish.

Then during dinner we set course to Spanish Bay for our final night dive, with sightings of tons of arrow crabs, three octopus (one huge, one medium, and one tiny!), a file clam, some corkscrew anemone, and turtle grass anemone. It was a great final night dive of the week.

Thursday
We departed Spanish Bay and started our day heading to Cannery Banks for two dives, with sightings of nurse shark, scorpionfish, neck crabs, bearded toadfish, Atlantic spadefish, creole wrasse, trumpetfish, trunkfish, and the beautiful blue bell tunicates that make this site so unique and lovely.

Then we set course to The Pinnacle, a gorgeous site for a couple of dives, with sightings of a white seahorse, a brown seahorse, triggerfish, filefish, groupers, snappers, a moray eel, and neck crabs. Then we set course back to Roatan.

Friday
We started our final day of diving at Cara a Cara, which means Face to Face. It was an early start this morning as we did a pre-breakfast dive with resident female Caribbean reef sharks, groupers, snappers, creole wrasse, mackerels, and jacks.

During breakfast we set course to Mr. Buds to finish off the trip. This wreck is where we saw longsnout seahorses, more groupers, snappers, a free-swimming green moray, trunkfish, lobsters, and so much more. What a great finish to an amazing week.

Iron Divers of the Week:
Rich, Jim, Mike, Aaron

Congratulations to Rich, Jim, Mike, and Aaron for not giving in, doing every single dive offered, and being our Iron Divers of the week. A big congratulations also goes to the hardest-working diver on the yacht, Mike. Along with his Iron Diver honor, he hit a big milestone this week with dive number 100 and becoming an Advanced Diver!

A big thank you to all for making this another safe week full of fun diving. We hope to see you all again soon onboard the Roatan Aggressor.