Turtle Crossing
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About this site
Turtle Crossing is a reef dive site off Roatan, Honduras, suited to divers looking for a calm, manageable dive to open their week. The terrain combines sandy flats with a mini-wall and shallow coral reef sections, with the deep sand shelf sitting at 24 m (80 ft) while the shallower reef provides plenty to explore toward the end of the dive.
Marine life at Turtle Crossing includes stingrays across the sandy areas, turtles, grouper, and small reef creatures tucked into the coral.
Conditions are calm with light current, making this a solid choice for beginner and newly certified divers, or for anyone wanting an easy first dive after a travel day.
Marine life here
Confirmed by our research team, reported by independent divers, or observed nearby via iNaturalist — each entry is labelled with its source.
StingrayStingrayReported here · unconfirmed
Sea turtleSea turtleReported here · unconfirmed
Stoplight ParrotfishSparisoma virideReported here · unconfirmed
Atlantic Blue TangAcanthurus coeruleusReported here · unconfirmed
Caribbean Bluehead WrasseThalassoma bifasciatumReported here · unconfirmed
Atlantic Sergeant MajorAbudefduf saxatilisReported here · unconfirmed
Striped ParrotfishScarus iseriReported here · unconfirmed
Four-eyed ButterflyfishChaetodon capistratusReported here · unconfirmed
Yellowtail DamselfishMicrospathodon chrysurusReported here · unconfirmed
Blue ChromisAzurina cyaneaReported here · unconfirmed
Atlantic Long-spined Sea UrchinDiadema antillarumReported here · unconfirmed
Queen AngelfishHolacanthus ciliarisReported here · unconfirmed
GrouperGrouperReported here · unconfirmed
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