Prince Albert Wreck
Roughly 43 m freighter (CoCo View calls it a 140 ft tanker) that once carried Nicaraguan refugees and was sunk in front of CoCo View Resort in 1985 as a dive attraction. She sits upright in about 20 m of water, covered in algae and soft coral, and is the resort's most popular shore and night dive; it can also be dived from a boat as a drop-off.
Facts
- Region: Honduras – Roatán
- Area: South shore (CoCo View – French Harbour – airport)
- Depth: 10–20 m
- Level: intermediate
- Current: low
- Type: wreck, shore
- Coordinates: 16.3588, -86.4204 (approximate)
- Highlights: upright freighter, soft coral growth, night dive, reef squid, eels
- 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.
- Unverified: Exact wreck position not published; the coordinate is estimated from the neighbouring mooring.
- Tips: The coordinate is an estimate next to the nearby Ironshore mooring off CoCo View, not a published wreck position. Visibility around the wreck is often poor; shore entry is from the CoCo View beach.