Dive Review of Laguna Beach Resort in
Honduras/Utila

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Laguna Beach Resort, Apr, 2005, by Joan B. Nagy, NY, USA . Report 1674.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$	N/A
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Comments	One of the best operations I've encountered in the Caribbean in 16 years of diving. Rustic, but handsome and very comfortable, cabins with air conditioning and plenty of hot water. Marvelously efficient and charming managers (Luciano and Romina are still there) and experienced dive masters and boat captains. In April of 2003, Undercurrent gave the food three stars. I'd bump that to at least four. Certainly plenty of it, and much of it very, very good. That same review seemed little better than lukewarm on the condition of the reefs and the number of fish and critters, but I thought both were as good as I've seen anywhere--except perhaps for pelagics. We saw lots of tropicals, and in the more exotic category longlure frogfish, many hawksbill turtles, scorpionfish, seahorses, red-lipped blennies, eagle rays, and--yes--whale sharks and dolphins. As a longtime subscriber to Undercurrent, I hadn't read before how whale shark sightings work. And at the risk of running out of my 1000-word limit, I think it worth explaining the procedure. All dive operations are in contact with each other via radio phone. When you come up from your first dive of the morning, the captains know whether or not there have been whale shark sightings. If there have, and if you're on the right side of the island, they head off immediately. Once you get to the location, the dive master starts yelling, "Get ready," "Get ready." That means get on your mask, snorkel, and fins and sit on the starboard rail. The divemaster, who has been standing on the bow waiting to see the whale sharks rise up from below, yells "Go!, Go!", and you jump in. It takes a few seconds for the bublles to clear, and there it is. Maybe no more than 15 feet from you. Heanding away and down. And for maybe five or ten glorious seconds, there it is. No more than ten or fifteen feet from you, heading away and down. But for all ten seconds, it's the most exciting thing I've ever seen in 16 years of diving. And we had six heart-stopping sightings. And snorkeling with wild dolphins was almost as spectacular. Great trip. Very highly recommended.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Extensive Caribbean, Papua New Guinea, Thailand
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm, noCurrents
Water Temp	82-82°F / 28-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	1
Water Visibility	60-80 Ft/ 18-24 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	110 feet; back on boat in 1 hour.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	Schools	Whale Sharks	> 2
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	No E-6 processing; communal computer with UBS port and Photoshop

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Dive Review of Laguna Beach Resort in Honduras/Utila

Laguna Beach Resort, Apr, 2005,

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Dive Review of Laguna Beach Resort in
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