I hope you enjoy our latest dive video from West End Roatán. For me, these videos are a way to remember the experience and recall the many species we see while diving. After trips like this we like to look up the various species in our guides just to learn more about the creatures we encounter and their environment. Most of the many species of fish and other creatures we recorded are listed below with the time markers. Please let me know If you think I misidentified a species or if you know any of the species I did not identify.

What I love about diving the West End is the beautiful topography of the coral reef. Most dive sites have interesting maze-like channels. On this trip we encountered many turtles and more ocean triggerfish than I’ve ever seen. On one dive, our divemaster Douglas found a tiny pipefish in the sand. Frustratingly, from that point onward I closely examined every stick and leaf stem I saw looking for another pipefish but to no avail.

Our Dive Outfit:
We had a great experience with Moana Divers. A big thanks to Dani—our dive guide for the week—as well as Mauricio, Cris, Douglas, Kevin and Olman.
https://moanadiversroatan.com/en/.

Video Equipment:
- GoPro Hero 7 Black with underwater housing (4K, 60fps, Protune color profile)
- GoPole (retractable pole )
- Light - I use a handheld LED flashlight that is made for video. It provides an even light without a hotspot.
- Flip Filter for GoPro. I use the red filter and macro lens. The macro lens is hit or miss for me since it’s very hard to tell if the subject is in focus while diving. You may notice several scenes where the subject is not in focus and this is most likely shot with the macro lens. I leave these scenes in the video if the species is identifiable just so that I can remember what we saw.
- Final Cut Pro

00:00 Red Barrel Sponges
00:16 Caribbean Spiny Lobster
00:22 French Angelfish
00:33 Stoplight Parrotfish
00:38 Pair of Bar Jacks
00:43 Tiger Grouper at cleaning station
00:53 Indigo Hamlet
01:14 Longlure Frogfish
01:40 Spotted Scorpionfish on a coral head
02:06 Scrawled Filefish
02:27 Hawksbill Sea Turtle munching on coral
03:06 Pair of Balloonfish
03:35 Juvenile Spotted Drum
04:08 Tiger Grouper
04:25 French Angelfish
04:46 Pair of Black Durgon
05:03 Tiger Tail Sea Cucumber
05:30 Porkfish
05:35 Ocean Triggerfish
06:06 Banded Coral Shrimp
06:12 Pederson Cleaner Shrimp on Corkscrew Anemone
06:20 Moana Divers boat, West End Beach
06:28 Shortfin Pipefish
06:40 Banded Coral Shrimp in Conch shell
06:56 Yellowhead Jawfish
07:40 Spotted Scorpionfish
08:20 Blue Tang
08:41 Spotted Spiny Lobster
09:08 Smooth Trunkfish
09:26 Curious Black Grouper checks out Declan, Jim and Dani
10:14 Yellow Arrow Crab in a sponge
10:24 Pair of Spotted Spiny Lobster
10:31 Peacock Flounder
10:35 Channel Clinging Crab
11:00 Pederson Cleaner Shrimp on Corkscrew Anemone
11:47 Fairy Basslet
12:00 Slatepencil Urchin
12:15 Spotted Scorpionfish Closeup
12:28 Splitcrown Feather Duster
12:32 Rock Hind
12:49 Grey Angelfish
13:19 Red Lizardfish
13:32 Porcupinefish
13:47 Magnificent Feather Duster
14:23 Cushion Sea Star
14:38 Atlantic Spadefish
15:20 White Spotted Filefish
15:35 Green Moray
16:14 Smooth Trunkfish
16:56 Creole Wrasse
17:00 Spotted Eagle Ray
17:21 Green Sea Turtle with a pair of Remora on its back
17:30 Cleaning station
17:46 On Moana's dive boat with Dani, Kim, Jim, Steve, Kevin and Declan
18:00 Blue Tang school
18:50 Black Grouper
19:13 Ocean Triggerfish

Identification Guide Books:
- Reef Fish Identification Florida Caribbean Bahamas, Paul Humann and Ned Deloach
- Reef Creature Identification Florida Caribbean Bahamas, Paul Humann, Ned Deloach and Les Wilk

Music:
My thanks to the many musicians who make their music available for free on YouTube.
Sunny Travel - Nico Staf
In Eternity We'll Meet - Aakash Gandhi
Krishna's Calliope - Jesse Gallagher
Society's Dream - Mini Vandals
Is This Really Happening? - TrackTribe
Interstellar Mood - Nico Staf
Flying - Track Tribe