Learn to go inside a wreck with a plan, a line and a way back out.
$425 · 3 to 4 days · 4 dives · Max 30 m / 100 ft · Age 15+
Any certified diver can swim past a wreck. This is the course that teaches you to go inside one. Four dives on Roatan’s wrecks, a short boat ride off West End, with sites picked around conditions on the day. Training dives stay within 30 meters / 100 feet. Line work, wreck mapping, and finding your way back out of a compartment when the silt comes up behind you. Three to four days in West End.
Four dives, three to four days, and a PADI Wreck Diver certification covering limited penetration.
Requirements: PADI Advanced Open Water or equivalent, minimum age 15.
Cover the wreck diving theory before your first dive on the hulls.
Reel and line practice in shallow water before either wreck.
Survey and map first, then penetrate on a line on later dives.
PADI Wreck Diver, submitted the day you finish dive four.
Practiced in shallow water first, then put to work on the wreck.
01
Tie in, lay line, and follow it back out when you can’t see.
02
Survey a wreck and draw it. Sounds dull. Changes how you dive.
03
Primary, backup, and what you do when the primary quits inside.
04
Frog kick and back kick, so the exit stays where you left it.
Yes. PADI Advanced Open Water or equivalent, minimum age 15. Both wrecks sit well below 18 meters, so an Open Water card isn’t enough on its own. If you need the Advanced first we can run the two back to back with us in West End.
Yes, on the later dives, with a line, a light and an instructor beside you. PADI calls it limited penetration: you stay inside the light zone with a continuous guideline back to open water. It isn’t cave diving and nobody’s asking you to squeeze through anything.
Usually El Aguila and the Odyssey, both a short boat ride off West End, depending on conditions on the day. The Aguila broke into three sections in a hurricane, which makes it a forgiving first penetration: big openings, plenty of light, and green moray eels that have lived in the holds for years. The Odyssey is the bigger of the two and more intact.
It’s worth it. Nitrox gives you more no-decompression time at wreck depths, so you get longer inside. We fill Nitrox on site, so plenty of divers run the two specialties in the same week.
Three to four days, depending on the boat schedule and how quickly the line drills come together. That includes the theory portion as well as the four dives.
Yes. Our morning two-tank trip visits the wrecks regularly and any Advanced diver can join. You stay outside the hull. Going in is what this course changes.
Send us your dates and we’ll come back to you with availability, usually the same day.
Roatan’s wrecks sit in clear water a short boat ride off West End. Visibility often runs 20 to 30 meters, so you see the whole hull long before you’re near it. Water sits 26 to 29°C year round, so no drysuit and no gloves in most conditions. Wreck diving in Roatan is warm, bright and close to shore, which is rarer than it sounds.
Wreck and Deep run well together, since both of these hulls sit at the depth where the Deep card earns its place. Five specialties plus Rescue Diver makes you a PADI Master Scuba Diver.
Three dives, two days. Certified to 40 meters / 130 feet.
One day, two dives. The skill that makes you a better diver.
Morning two-tank trips visit the wrecks. Advanced and up.
Coconut Tree Divers is right in the heart of West End, with some of Roatan's best dive sites right on our doorstep.
Our PADI 5 Star IDC Center is one of Roatan's oldest and top-rated dive shops.
Completed, official PADI course certification records, May 2026.
Four daily fun dives and Tues & Thurs night dives make five.
TDI courses and guided deep diving from Advanced Nitrox to Trimix to Helitrox.
With the immense array of dive sites right on your front door step to the community like friendship and welcoming from all the staff and other trainees at the dive shop, there’s no way you can go wrong with choosing Coconut Tree Divers. Not only can the knowledgeable staff lead you on dives from the beautiful shallow reefs to the deep wrecks in the area, but they’ll mentor and train you to be the best in any of the PADI courses you could choose from. I say this from experience, doing 8 courses with them in total, including specialty and professional courses with them.
Aaron
