CoCo View, Roatán, Bay Islands, Honduras

Prince Albert Wreck

The Prince Albert is a 42-meter island freighter that was intentionally sunk in 1985 in the channel directly in front of CoCo View Resort on Roatán's south shore, making it one of the longest-established artificial reefs in Honduras. The wreck sits upright on a sandy slope in 14 to 20 meters of water and is reached as a shore dive from the resort, which lays a guide rope from the dock. After three decades the hull is heavily encrusted with hard and soft corals, sponges and hydroids, and the open holds shelter resident green moray, large grouper, glassy sweepers, schoolmaster snapper and dense aggregations of silversides in season. A short distance from the wreck a smaller DC-3 aircraft was added in the 1990s and is normally combined into the same dive. Conditions are consistently calm with 15 to 25 meters of visibility, making this a popular night dive.