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Don Quickset

Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras · 8–25m · intermediate · exposed

West-side reef near Utila's northwest coast.

Conditions today

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poor

Poor — 0.9m effective waves made worse by short-period chop.

Limiting factor: period

Wave height
0.8–1.2m
Wave period
4.4–5.3s
Wind chop
0.1–1m
Sea temp
28.6–29.1°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

  • TodayPoor — 0.9m effective waves made worse by short-period chop.poor
  • FridayMarginal — 0.6m effective waves made worse by short-period chop.marginal
  • SaturdayPoor — decent morning demoted one level because conditions deteriorate over the ride-home window.poor

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

Dive briefing

AI-generated

Conditions are poor today due to short-period chop making 0.9m effective waves harder to manage. Raw wave heights of 0.8–1.2m and periods of 4.4–5.3 seconds will keep the water restless across this exposed reef. Water temperature sits at 28.6–29.1°C. The site runs 8–25 metres and suits intermediate divers, but the broken surface conditions will test your buoyancy and make navigation less straightforward.

Divers commonly log blue land crabs, stoplight parrotfish, and spotted eagle rays here. Schoolmaster snapper, Atlantic blue tang, and western Atlantic trumpetfish are often recorded, and hawksbill sea turtles have been sighted regularly. Given today's sea state, you may find wildlife behaviour more subdued, and bottom time shorter as you work through the chop.

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.

Species come from iNaturalist — research-grade sightings logged by divers, snorkelers, and naturalists nearby. The ranking reflects what people photograph most, not guaranteed abundance. Ask a local operator what's actually being seen. Species names link to iNaturalist for range maps, seasonality and more photos. Photos by iNaturalist contributors under Creative Commons licences — individual credit on hover.

Other sites nearby

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