The island life is sometimes hard to explain. So I am always pleasantly surprised if family or friends come my way to experience the laid back atmosphere here. It is even more fun if they like to dive. Annet, my friend from the Netherlands, came a few years ago to do her Padi advanced course with me. She likes the island, the diving, and me too and so she came for her 5th trip. My idea is to challenge her this time and do a different type of dive than she is used to. The Wreck El Aguila is a popular diving spot, at times there are more divers than fish. For that reason we will go to this wreck before dawn. I am not a morning person at all, so it will be a challenge for me too not to miss the alarm.   It is one of the three most important shipwreck dive sites off the coast of Roatan. According to the son of the former Mayor of Roatan, El Aquila was en route from Puerto Cortes, Honduras to Haîti with a cargo of concrete. The ship was wrecked near Utila, presumably by sabotage. For some years, El Aguila […]