{"id":573891325,"date":"2019-07-12T18:17:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T22:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573891325"},"modified":"2019-07-24T16:34:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T20:34:33","slug":"our-final-dives-in-roatan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2019\/07\/12\/our-final-dives-in-roatan\/","title":{"rendered":"Our final dives in Roatan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had our last two dives of the trip last Friday. While every other day had been three or four dives, the last day is on a bit of a clock. Again, because of the chemistry going on in your bloodstream, you&#8217;re not supposed to dive within 18 or 24 hours of your flight. So we had two dives on Friday afternoon and other activities until it was time to leave. <\/p>\n<p>So our last two Our last two dives featured El Aguila, or The Eagle, is regarded as one of the best diving sites around the island. El Aguila is a 230-foot long freighter. It was hauling concrete and bound for Haiti when it wrecked. It stayed where it stopped for a long while and had quite the adventure as a former freighter before being purchased, cleaned and put at this final spot, sunk at 110 feet in 1997. It sat upright for about a year, and then Hurricane Mitch blew through in late 1998 and snapped the weakened ship into three pieces. <\/p>\n<p>We also saw plenty of fish and groupers, plenty of garden eels and a very curious green moray eel. You can see some of that in this video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G1Egyum85SE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here we are, diving off down the bow of The Eagle:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july19\/july50.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t it look spooky and cool?<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july19\/july51.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s The Eagle amidships:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july19\/july52.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Count your coral while you can:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july19\/july53.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I certainly was:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july19\/july54.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just so pretty:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july19\/july55.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july19\/july56.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july19\/july59.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july19\/july60.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for following along this week with last week&#8217;s diving adventures. Next week we&#8217;ll show off a few other things from this trip and, eventually, get back to normal. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july19\/july57.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july19\/july58.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I guess. If we must.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had our last two dives of the trip last Friday. While every other day had been three or four dives, the last day is on a bit of a clock. Again, because of the chemistry going on in your bloodstream, you&#8217;re not supposed to dive within 18 or 24 hours of your flight. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14,10,80,64,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573891325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-friday","category-photo","category-roatan","category-scuba","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573891325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573891327,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891325\/revisions\/573891327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573891325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573891325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573891325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}