Click here to explore a map of the Utila’s dive sites! Now you can explore the dive sites around Utila too! During my last vacation to Roatan’s sister island, I took the time to document the island’s dive sites in the TIREngine database. The result? A beautiful, Google Maps-powered interactive map. Zoom in on high resolution satellite imagery of the dive sites surrounding Utila. Click on any site to learn more information, or use the drop-down box above the pull up a full dive site description. Thanks to Alton’s Dive Center in Utila for helping me name and locate the dive sites! To other Utila dive shops and instructors: am I missing some dive sites? Do you have more information » read more «

…is apparently also a lie on Utila. I arrived on Roatan’s sister island via Captain Verne’s catamaran ($100 round trip Half Moon Bay, Roatan to Utila Town, Utila) on Tuesday. The plan? Hang out for a two nights, do a little skin diving, and return to the “real world” of Roatan on Thursday. Yeah, so about that plan… It’s Friday afternoon and I’m once again telling the lie, “Seriously guys, I’m leaving tomorrow.” This time, though, I mean it. Honestly. When I get back to Roatan’s blazing fast internet (think year-2000 speeds, as opposed to Utila’s 1994 speeds), expect deliciously debaucherous updates about my time here. I didn’t think an island could be more ridiculously bizarre than Roatan, but this » read more «

Dive No.: 1963 Dive Site: Black Hills, Utila Max Depth: 108ft Total Time: 58mins Profile: 8mins@110ft, 10mins @ 80ft, 15mins@50ft, 15mins @40ft, 7mins @ 35ft, 3mins @ 15ft Air: 2900psi – 1200psi Mix: air Tank: 12L/80cu Comments: My first dive on Utila! Black Hills is a lovely sea mound adorned in brilliant sponges and massive soft corals. Following a spiral profile typical of most pinnacle dives, I spotted a free-swimming green moray eel, schools of horse eye jacks and atlantic spadefish, a dozen flamingo tongues, a pea (juvenile smooth trunkfish), two large lettuce sea slugs, and three hawskbill turtles. Definitely one of the best dives in the Bay Islands! Dive Site: Aquarium, Utila Max Depth: 40ft Total Time: 60mins Profile: » read more «