Fish Den
Coral mound in a horseshoe canyon that opens to a channel and a large drop-off; clouds of grunts and jacks gather in the shallows, with a sponge-covered wall, neck crabs and seahorses. Upwelling currents often make it a drift dive and give a varied mix of corals. Position = Roatán Marine Park mooring buoy for this site (RMP 'dive sites' map, Sept 2026 list).
Facts
- Region: Honduras – Roatán
- Area: West End & West Bay
- Depth: 3–25 m
- Level: intermediate
- Current: moderate
- Type: reef, drift
- Coordinates: 16.3173329, -86.5887143
- Highlights: clouds of grunts and jacks, angelfish, turtles, seahorses, sponge wall
- Permit: Roatán Marine Park (RMP) user fee: the park's own page calls it a 'voluntary user fee' of US$10 and gives a bracelet/token in return; it is sold at the RMP EcoStore in West End and at partner dive shops and resorts. In practice dive operators ask divers to hold it before diving the park's reefs (one operator lists US$10 per year or US$3 per day), so treat it as required and confirm the current amount and validity with the park or your shop. The fee funds the mooring buoys and reef patrols.
- Issuer / contact: Roatán Marine Park (RMP)
- Phone: +504 9430-3193
- Email: info@roatanmarinepark.org
- Website: https://www.roatanmarinepark.org/voluntary-fee
- Phone and e-mail from roatanmarinepark.org; fee amount from the park's voluntary-fee page (US$10). Per-year/per-day wording comes from an operator listing, not the park.
- Tips: Often combined with Canyon Reef as a drift. Suits photographers and long bottom times in the shallows.