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Blackish Point

Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras · 10–30m · intermediate · exposed

North-side volcanic terrain with caverns and swim-throughs — dived when the trades drop and the north side lies down.

Conditions today

Retrieved · refreshed hourly

marginal

Marginal — 0.8m effective waves made worse by short-period chop.

Limiting factor: period

Wave height
0.6–0.9m
Wave period
4.9–5.6s
Wind chop
0–0.3m
Sea temp
30.3–30.8°C

Ranges span today's hours. Wave height here is the raw sea state — the rating scales it for how exposed the site is. Exposed — open water with nothing to block the swell, so it is scored at full height.

Next few days

  • TodayMarginal — 0.8m effective waves made worse by short-period chop.marginal
  • FridayMarginal — 0.7m effective waves made worse by short-period chop.marginal
  • SaturdayMarginal — 0.7m 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 exposed north-side site calls for intermediate skills and offers caverns and swim-throughs through volcanic terrain. Today's conditions are marginal — the raw swell is 0.6–0.9 m with a short period of 4.9–5.6 seconds, creating choppy water that will make navigation through the features more demanding than usual. Water temperature sits at 30.3–30.8°C. Only commit to this dive if you're comfortable with confined passages in less-than-ideal sea state.

Divers commonly log stoplight and striped parrotfish here, along with Atlantic blue tangs, Caribbean bluehead wrasses, and schoolmaster snappers. Queen angelfish and Atlantic sergeant majors are often recorded. The volcanic setting and fish life make the site rewarding when conditions allow — today just isn't ideal, so weigh your experience and comfort carefully against the marginal rating.

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.