El Aguila

El Aguila is a wreck improved by catastrophe. Sunk upright as an attraction in 1997, she was torn into three pieces by Hurricane Mitch a year later, and the breaks turned a tidy hull into honest wreckage: peeled plates, exposed ribs, and swim-through gaps that need no doors. The residents are the show: green moray eels of startling girth patrol openly, a shifting crowd of large groupers begs with menaces (a legacy of old feeding), and garden eels stipple the surrounding sand. The depth puts most of the dive below 25 m, so it pairs naturally with a shallow reef second tank.

O momento pelo qual você vem: Three-piece broken hull, oversized green morays and groupers, garden-eel plain on the sand.

Topografia: A cargo ship scuttled in 1997 on flat sand at about 33 m, broken into three sections by Hurricane Mitch the following year.

Entrada: Moored descent off Sandy Bay, minutes from the West End shops.

Perigos: Depth for the full tour and sharp storm-torn steel; penetration only where openings are obvious and trained.

Conservação: Inside the Roatan Marine Park; the grouper begging is inherited: feed nothing.

Nitrox: Vale a pena aqui: os perfis situam-se na gama em que o nitrox prolonga significativamente o tempo sem paragem de descompressão (com a formação para o usar).