Dive Review of Pirate Divers/Foster's West Bay in
Honduras/Roatan

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Pirate Divers/Foster's West Bay, Sep, 2004, by Scott George, CA, USA . Report 1335.
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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
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	Foster's West Bay Resort is a small resort with cabanas and duplexes on the beach. They have a restaurant/bar on the premises. The food is basic but not bad. The service varies by what person is serving you, but the staff are polite and helpful. The accomodations are rustic, but clean and well kept. The beach is one of the most beautiful on Roatan. The usual warnings about sand flies and mosquitoes on Roatan apply here as well - just be prepared. There are a handful of other small resorts with bars and restaurants within walking distance, but for variety you have to make a trip into West End, where there are a number of good restaurants. We particularly enjoyed Dian's Garden of Eat'n and Belvedere's Shipwreck. Pirate Divers is Fosters' new on-site dive shop. Foster's previously ran there dive packages through various other dive shops. Pirate Divers opened about two weeks prior to our trip so they did not yet have many divers booked. In fact, we only dived with one other pair of divers on one of our dives. Iain and Steve were still in the process of learning many of the Roatan dive sites, but since we were the only divers with them we got personalized service. Pirate Divers plans to keep the number of divers small to keep the service personal. The diving was excellent. We are both relatively new divers and the dives were all pretty easy and the personal attention was helpful. The reef just off West Bay was in fantastic condition and the fish life is pretty abundant. We saw turtles on most dives, many barracuda, groupers, eagle rays, small tropical fish, and a huge free-swimming green moray eel. El Aguila is not a really impressive wreck but it is about 100 ft depth so it is an easy wreck dive. All-in-all, Foster's West Bay and Pirate Divers were everything we expected and I would highly recommend them.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	0-25 dives
Where else diving	[Unspecified]
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm, noCurrents
Water Temp	78-80°F / 26-27°C	Wetsuit Thickness	1
Water Visibility	80-100 Ft/ 24-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	?
Enforced diving restrictions	130 ft depth
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
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	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	[None]

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Dive Review of Pirate Divers/Foster's West Bay in Honduras/Roatan

Pirate Divers/Foster's West Bay, Sep, 2004,

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Dive Review of Pirate Divers/Foster's West Bay in
Honduras/Roatan