The Odyssey

      Well this week involved, as usual, a lot of diving and searching for turtles. Particularly standing out this week was an opportunity I had to help Nick (a worker from the Roatan Marine Park) help move a dive site buoy from one end of a wreck to the other. The Odyssey is a huge 100 meter cargo ship that was sunk in 2002 specifically for coral to grow on and divers to explore. The experience as a whole was highly epic and more than a tad spooky. This large hunk of steel, a relic of human endeavor and might was sunk far below the waves and overgrown with by nature. Possibly a lesson in humility can be learned from this mighty vessels tale but will we ever learn it? I have attached below a video of the wreck and a picture of me beside the stern (to get an idea of scale).

Video of the full length of the Odyssey wreck (Dustin Baumbach)

Me beside the Odyssey stern (Dustin Baumbach)