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Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras · 10–24m · intermediate · semi

Swim-throughs and overhangs in the ironshore off the old airstrip at Utila's east end.

Conditions today

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marginal

Marginal — 0.6m effective waves made worse by short-period chop.

Limiting factor: period

Wave height
0.7–0.9m
Wave period
5–5.6s
Wind chop
0–0.4m
Sea temp
30.2–30.8°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 — 0.6m effective waves made worse by short-period chop.marginal
  • FridayMarginal — 0.6m 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

Conditions are marginal today. The issue is short-period chop — raw waves of 0.7–0.9m with a period of 5–5.6 seconds. These conditions will make the swim-throughs and overhangs here less comfortable than usual, though depths stay manageable between 10 and 24 metres. Sea temperature is pleasant at 30.2–30.8°C.

You'll find the usual reef fish if you venture in: divers commonly log stoplight and striped parrotfish, Atlantic blue tangs, and wrasse. Schoolmaster snappers and queen angelfish are often recorded as well. This is intermediate diving in semi-exposed water, so read the conditions as they are and decide accordingly.

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

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Other sites nearby

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