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Pretty Bush

Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras · 6–18m · beginner · sheltered

Easy south-shore reef with sandy channels and coral heads — a classic Utila training and second-dive site.

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 a calm morning providing 0.3m effective waves. The site's sheltered south-shore exposure means you'll have easy water despite the 0.6–0.8m raw swell running. Sea temperature sits at 30.4–30.8°C, so a minimal wetsuit or rash guard is plenty. Depths range from 6 to 18 metres across sandy channels and coral heads—straightforward navigation for beginners and ideal for a second dive.

Divers commonly log stoplight parrotfish, spotted eagle rays, and Atlantic blue tangs here. Hawksbill sea turtles are often recorded, along with schoolmaster snappers, queen angelfish, and trumpetfish working the reef structure. It's a gentle site with plenty to watch.

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.