Atocha
16.3598°N 86.4168°W · reef
Atocha is a Roatan Marine Park mooring site on the north shore of Roatán. The mooring designation appears on the RMP canonical map; despite the name, no documented shipwreck at this location has been confirmed in publicly-available sources. (The well-known Nuestra Señora de Atocha is a 1622 Spanish galleon wrecked off Florida, unrelated to this Roatán mooring.) Site-specific dive information has not been independently validated.
Site Information
- Location: Roatán, Honduras
- Entry Type: Boat dive
- Site Type: Reef
- Difficulty Level: Beginner
- Maximum Depth: 18 meters
Sea-surface temperature and wave height from Open-Meteo Marine (ERA5 reanalysis, monthly averages).
435 verified species observations (305 species) logged within ~11 km of this site between 1916 and 2023, from the Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
- Pterois · lionfish
- Poeciliidae
- Gambusia nicaraguensis
- Poecilia orri
- Strongylura notata
- Orcinus orca · Killer whale
- Hypleurochilus
- Poecilia
- Eleotris pisonis
- Albula vulpes
- Bothus lunatus
- Emblemaria hyltoni
Scientific survey records skew toward sampled taxa (molluscs, corals) and do not reflect what you are guaranteed to see on a dive.
Source: OBIS (obis.org), aggregated Darwin Core occurrence records.
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