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Duppy Waters

Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras · 12–35m · intermediate · exposed

Remote northwest reef with healthy coral and good visibility when conditions allow the crossing.

Conditions today

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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 remote reef runs from 12 to 35 metres and requires intermediate certification. Conditions are marginal today — 0.8m effective waves made worse by short-period chop will make the crossing uncomfortable, though the raw swell sits at 0.6–0.9m. The exposed location means you'll feel every bit of the movement. Water temperature is steady at 30.3–30.8°C.

Divers commonly log stoplight parrotfish, spotted eagle rays, and hawksbill sea turtles here. Schoolmaster snapper, Atlantic blue tang, queen angelfish, Caribbean bluehead wrasse, and western Atlantic trumpetfish are often recorded too. The reef itself holds healthy coral, which means the life tends to be good when you can get there and stay down.

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.