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Jack's Bight

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

North-side reef off Utila, exposed to trade-wind swell.

Conditions today

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marginal

Marginal — 0.6m effective waves made worse by short-period chop.

Limiting factor: period

Wave height
0.4–0.9m
Wave period
3.8–4.8s
Wind chop
0–0.8m
Sea temp
29.8–30.6°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 — 0.6m effective waves made worse by short-period chop.marginal
  • SundayMarginal — 0.5m effective waves made worse by short-period chop.marginal
  • MondayMarginal — 0.4m 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 are marginal today. Short-period chop is the limiting factor, creating choppy surface conditions even though raw wave heights are modest at 0.4 to 0.9 metres. The site faces north and is exposed to trade-wind swell, so expect some surge. You're looking at intermediate-level diving between 8 and 25 metres, with water temperature around 29.8 to 30.6°C.

Divers commonly log stoplight and striped parrotfish here, along with Atlantic blue tangs, Caribbean bluehead wrasses, and schoolmaster snappers. Atlantic sergeant majors, blue chromis, and queen angelfish are also often recorded. The reef holds plenty to watch, though conditions will test your buoyancy control in the surge.

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.