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The Maze

Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras · 10–30m · intermediate · exposed

North-side maze of coral canyons and sand channels.

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

This exposed north-side site requires intermediate certification and spans 10 to 30 metres. Conditions are poor today due to short-period chop making the 0.9m effective wave height uncomfortable. Raw sea state shows 0.8–1.2m waves with 4.4–5.3 second periods, which will create the choppy conditions the rating describes. Sea temperature runs 28.6–29.1°C.

Divers commonly log spotted eagle rays, hawksbill sea turtles, stoplight parrotfish, schoolmaster snapper, and atlantic blue tang here. Blue land crabs and caribbean land hermit crabs are also often recorded. Given the poor rating, this would not be an ideal day to tackle the maze of coral canyons and sand channels.

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.