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CJ's Drop-off

Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras · 12–40m · advanced · exposed

Utila's signature north-wall dive — a sheer drop-off into the blue with pelagic traffic.

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

Conditions here are marginal today. The short-period chop is the limiting factor — you'll find 0.8m effective waves made worse by the rapid swell period. Raw sea state is running 0.6–0.9m with wave periods of 4.9–5.6 seconds. Water temperature sits at 30.3–30.8°C. This is an advanced-only, exposed site, and you'll need solid sea sense and buoyancy control in these conditions.

The drop-off itself holds plenty of life. Divers commonly log stoplight parrotfish, spotted eagle rays, and hawksbill sea turtles here, along with schoolmaster snapper, Atlantic blue tangs, queen angelfish, Caribbean blueheads, and western Atlantic trumpetfish. The pelagic traffic and the wall itself are what draw people, and the marine life rewards a careful descent and solid positioning along the edge.

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.