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Roatan Marine Park, Honduras: A Scuba Diving and Snorkeling Mecca

Published October 31, 2011
Drew Tapley, Managing Editor & Writer

Before you pack your regulator away, there’s one prime dive destination that may well have eluded your attention. The tropical paradise marine park island of Roatan in Honduras is an underwater world teeming with parrot fish, sea turtles and sharks. Roatan is a small island, 60 miles across, just off the coast of Honduras. The island is a prime dive site—one of the best dive sites in Central America—hosting the second largest reef in the world after Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, and attracting dive enthusiasts from all over the globe to dive Roatan. While the ocean bed shimmers pure white sand amid the dense reef, sea turtles venture as far into shore as to be almost visible from the beach. You need only snorkel 20–30 ...

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