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Jack Neil Point

Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras · 5–16m · beginner · sheltered

Seagrass and patch reef off the southwest shore — turtles, rays, and juvenile fish in easy conditions.

Conditions today

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excellent

Excellent — calm morning with 0.3m effective waves.

Limiting factor: none

Wave height
0.6–0.8m
Wave period
5–5.7s
Wind chop
0–0.3m
Sea temp
30.4–30.8°C

Ranges span today's hours. Wave height here is the raw sea state — the rating scales it for how exposed the site is. Sheltered — reef or lagoon protection, so swell is scored at half its open-water height.

Next few days

  • TodayExcellent — calm morning with 0.3m effective waves.excellent
  • FridayExcellent — calm morning with 0.3m effective waves.excellent
  • SaturdayExcellent — calm morning with 0.3m effective waves.excellent

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

Dive briefing

AI-generated

Conditions are excellent today with calm morning water and 0.3m effective waves — ideal for this sheltered seagrass and patch reef site. You're diving in 5 to 16 metres, well within beginner range, and water temperature sits between 30.4 and 30.8°C. The forecast shows raw wave heights of 0.6 to 0.8 metres with a wind wave component of 0 to 0.3 metres.

Divers commonly log stoplight parrotfish, spotted eagle rays, and hawksbill sea turtles here, along with schoolmaster snappers, Atlantic blue tangs, queen angelfish, Caribbean bluehead wrasses, and western Atlantic trumpetfish. This is good habitat for watching juvenile fish and rays work the sandy areas between the patch reefs.

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.