Divemaster Trainees from around the world

Left to right: Digby (New Zealand), Abner (Honduras), Anastiina (Finland), Matt (England), Sigita (Lithuania), Riccardo (Italy)

Here are our current divemaster trainees.  Quite the international crew! (Coconut Tree Divers has, after all, always worked to foster good international relations...).  At this point, Riccardo and Sigita will be the next two to graduate to Divemaster.  Many of our graduates have gone on to work in various places in the world, and some have continued on to become Open Water Scuba Instructors doing their IDC with Will.  

If you have done your divermaster internship or IDC with us and would like to be added to our website (look at the "our graduates" section to find yourself), drop us an email with your photo.

As we haven't been so busy, we're taking the opportunity to work with the DMTs (divemaster trainees, for those of you not familiar with the underwater slang) on meeting some of their  course requirements so that when we are busier, they can focus on the practical aspects of becoming a competent divemaster.  Here they are working on their Search and Recovery scenario.

Marco and the DMTs...hope they find the tank (practising for the sunken treasure!)

And finally, providing the entertainment at beer o'clock (as if the EXTRA cold beer isn't enough) - we have our very own master juggler (we'll make a divemaster of him yet!)....

Riccardo and his 5 balls!!

Recent Sightings: 2 fighting Hawksbill Turtles @ Half Moon Bay Wall; 2 Green Morays, Spotted Moray, Sharptail Eel, juvenile Southern Stingray and Caribbean Reef Squid @ Half Moon Bay (Lagoon); Silversides in their thousands (still there!) @ Blue Channel

Dive Site of the Moment: Half Moon Bay Wall - because the black gorgonians on the wall and the soft coral gardens at 40-50 ft are simply awesome.

Another beautiful September day

Can you spot Captain Fred?

September is often a great month here on Roatan.  The diving conditions are good,  the weather is nice and warm on the whole (with some occasional night rain!), and it's not so busy.  It's actually an ideal time to take a vacation, especially if you're looking to get away from the summer vacation crowds.

As this was an exceptionally quiet Sunday morning, the entire shop went out diving in Half Moon Bay with mesh bags and garbage bags for an underwater beach cleanup.  It's often the case that the bay can get quite dirty after the fishing tournament, but having said that, we found relatively little trash.  Hats off to the clean-up crew who were dismantling the stalls and stages and cleaning up the trash first thing in the morning on the following day!

The day after the tournament: nice cleanup!!

This week, we also said goodbye to the Aussie group - have a safe trip home everyone!

Team Australia!

Dive Site of the Moment: Blue Channel, for the THOUSANDS of silversides and a number of green moray eels.

Recent Sightings: Silversides @ Blue Channel, 2 Shortfin Pipefish (possibly mating!) @ Lighthouse, Mother and Baby Spotted Eagle Rays @ The Wife

The blog is back!!

The blog is back!

The first few weeks of September have seen us to be unexpectedly busy (two boats every morning!), with the arrival of a number of previous customers including the Kearney family from California and Will and Vicky from Houston.  In that week we ran our first specialty trip to Cayos Cochinos on Wish U Were Here - lots of macro life!  This last week has seen a 20-strong group from Australia brought by Jay Chubb, a former divemaster intern.  Part of that group included the band 8 Foot Felix, who played on the main stage at the XII Roatan International Fishing Tournament, held around Honduran Independence day every year.

As you can see, the street can get pretty crowded (and this is only lunch time!).

This month also saw the graduation and departure of divemaster graduates Bob Millage (left) and Ken Petry (right).  Congratulations guys, and hope to see you here again soon!!