El Aguila (Wreck)

El Aguila (The Eagle) is Roatan’s most popular wreck dive and is located just off Baileys Key and Anthony’s Key Resort. It was a concrete freighter and sunk off Utila. The wreck was raised, stripped out for diving, and then sunk again by a consortium of dive shops on the island in 1997.

Marine life at this site

Large grouper, barracuda, tuna, and sharks like the reef and grey sharks can be spotted around the wreck.

Based on open species observationswithin ~5 km — likely to see, not necessarily confirmed at the site itself.

Massive Starlet Coral

Siderastrea siderea1 obs.

Greater Star Coral

Montastraea cavernosa1 obs.

Caribbean Spiny Lobster

Panulirus argus1 obs.

Flamingo Tongue Snail

Cyphoma gibbosum1 obs.

Caribbean Reef Squid

Sepioteuthis sepioidea1 obs.

Svamp

Callyspongia plicifera1 obs.

West Indian Sea Egg

Tripneustes ventricosus1 obs.

Atlantic Ghost Crab

Ocypode quadrata1 obs.

Mountainous Star Coral

Orbicella faveolata1 obs.

Giant Anemone

Condylactis gigantea1 obs.

Branching Fire Coral

Millepora alcicornis1 obs.

Sally Lightfoot Crab

Grapsus grapsus1 obs.

Atlantic Long-spined Sea Urchin

Diadema antillarum1 obs.

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Hawksbill Sea Turtle

Eretmochelys imbricata2 obs.

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Stinker Sponge

Ircinia felix1 obs.

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Svamp

Ectyoplasia ferox1 obs.

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Svamp

Aplysina archeri1 obs.

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Svamp

Agelas tubulata1 obs.