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Tuckster:Planning a week in late Feb or early March. We read where the weather starts improving then. Also considering Parrot Tree Plantation which is on the South. Will probably dive every day.
Good stuff Rev. This is the type of post that makes this board so valuable. I had read where the current could be an issue however, never from someone who had 1st hand knowledge. IF (big IF) we decide to do it at all, it will be from a boat. Both my wife & I are middle age & don't like to work to hard on our dives. We are leaning toward West Bay. ThanksRev. Blade:My first trip to Roatan, I stayed at Bay Island Beach Resort (next to Spooky Channel). One of the owners of BIBR, co-wrote the Lonely Planet book about Roatan diving... so you might not be surprised to find the book rates Spooky Channel as a great dive.
The dive masters at BIBR suggested that I should not try Spooky Channel from the shore side. They cautioned that there is a fair current through the channel. If you manage to use much air going out, you may have a nasty surface swim to get back... or wait for a resort boat to go around and out, past the reef to get you.
Three years later I went back to Roatan, and got to dive Spooky Channel (from the ocean side). The current was ripping, and we had half our group abort the dive because they could not make headway against the current. Visibility in the channel was 40' at best, and down to 20' at times.
I'm glad I dove it, because it had been hyped to me. I feel no special urge to dive the channel again.
Both my trips to Roatan were in early December. Although we had some rain on both trips, I didn't find it an issue while wearing a wetsuit.