The dive boats at CoCo View.

Since the resort is tailored entirely for divers, the diving couldn't be easier. Store your gear in a locker. Let them move it to your boat. Eat between dives.

Dolphins off the bow!

Diving is not all fun and games. You have to stay alert to potential danger at all times.

A big old chub like this, for example, might seem harmless ...

... until it goes for an air hose!

Arrow crabs.

Here's our divemaster proving that if you spend four hours a day underwater you do eventually get bored.

Seeing giant crabs like this one was one of the highlights of our diving in Honduras. We saw them on our night dives, which is when they're out and about the ocean floor.

"No more pictures, please!"

Spiny lobster.

A grouper at a "cleaning station"! Note the tiny fish and white (translucent) shrimp all around its mouth.

Cleaning stations are an amazing example of symbiosis. Larger fish let small fish climb over them and nibble away dead skin and parasites.

One of the incredible things about cleaning stations — in addition to the big fish "agreeing" not to eat the little fish during cleaning, even when they climb inside their mouths — is that there literally are stations: set locations where this happens. Fish have been known to line up for cleaning.

Cleaning stations are lucky finds for divers. You get to witness this wonder of nature ... and you get a lot closer to the fish than you normally would. Fish being cleaned tend to be very docile.

"What you lookin' at, Bubble Blower?"

Sergeant majors and yellowtail snapper.

Atlantic spadefish.