Roatan's Blackwater Experience:
Visitors to Roatan, Honduras now have a new and exciting opportunity to try Blackwater Diving.
Since last year the team at West End Divers has been experimenting and perfecting their new Blackwater dives, and these dives are now open to the public. Roatan is unique in the Caribbean because very deep water (think Cayman Trench!) can be found just a few miles offshore. The dives go out later than the average night dive, and the boat comes to a stop in about 5000ft of water to begin it's drift. A sea-anchor is deployed to slow it down, more closely matching the current and the incredible pelagic life that it carries. Each diver is tethered to a weighted line (each with their own line-handler) and is free to descend up to 50 of those 5000 ft.
The adventure begins: descending into the largest animal migration on the planet, the nightly Diel Migration of planktonic life!
Since last year the team at West End Divers has been experimenting and perfecting their new Blackwater dives, and these dives are now open to the public. Roatan is unique in the Caribbean because very deep water (think Cayman Trench!) can be found just a few miles offshore. The dives go out later than the average night dive, and the boat comes to a stop in about 5000ft of water to begin it's drift. A sea-anchor is deployed to slow it down, more closely matching the current and the incredible pelagic life that it carries. Each diver is tethered to a weighted line (each with their own line-handler) and is free to descend up to 50 of those 5000 ft.
The adventure begins: descending into the largest animal migration on the planet, the nightly Diel Migration of planktonic life!