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El Aguila Wreck

Roatán, Bay Islands, Honduras · 20–33m · advanced · semi

230ft cargo ship broken into three sections on sand at 33m off Sandy Bay, patrolled by huge green morays and groupers.

Conditions today

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marginal

Marginal — 0.7m effective waves made worse by short-period chop.

Limiting factor: period

Wave height
0.7–1.3m
Wave period
4.8–5.4s
Wind chop
0.4–1.2m
Sea temp
28.4–28.8°C

Ranges span today's hours. Wave height here is the raw sea state — the rating scales it for how exposed the site is. Semi-exposed — partial protection, so swell is scored at three-quarters of its open-water height.

Next few days

  • TodayMarginal — 0.7m effective waves made worse by short-period chop.marginal
  • FridayMarginal — 0.5m effective waves made worse by short-period chop.marginal
  • SaturdayMarginal — 0.5m effective waves made worse by short-period chop.marginal

Each day is scored over its morning dive window, the same as today's rating.

Dive briefing

AI-generated

This is an advanced wreck dive on sand between 20 and 33 metres. The cargo ship lies broken into three sections, and divers commonly log large green morays and groupers patrolling the wreck. Sea temperature is 28.4–28.8°C. Conditions are marginal today: short-period chop is the limiting factor, compounding the swell. Raw wave heights are 0.7–1.3m with a period of 4.8–5.4 seconds.

You'll regularly encounter stoplight parrotfish, Atlantic blue tangs, Atlantic sergeant majors, and Caribbean bluehead wrasses here. Caribbean spiny lobsters and four-eyed butterflyfishes are often recorded. Dive within your training and experience, watch your position on the wreck, and stay aware of the chop on the ascent.

Written by Claude (claude-haiku-4-5-20251001) from the rating, forecast, and sightings on this page — it has no other source and cannot look anything up. Treat it as a summary, not as local knowledge.

Commonly seen here

Most-recorded species near this site, ranked by research-grade iNaturalist sightings from divers, snorkelers, and naturalists.

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Other sites nearby

Within 25km, closest first — usually the same day's boat.