Surprisingly not much is actually known about the world's largest fish. Whale sharks have recently become protected in Honduras and Utila is on their main migratory path. A scuba diving vacation with Deep Blue Utila will provide you with the opportunity of seeing and even snorkelling with these awesome creatures. Our Utila Whale Shark Research Project over the next five years will provide new information to add to the slowly growing knowledge base.  Photographs taken of the Utila whale sharks are being added to ECOCEAN, an international whale shark database. In 2007 a whale shark was tracked through three different countries, this is the first time this has happened anywhere in the world.

Deep Blue Resort Utila is a 5 Star Gold Palm PADI Resort and an all inclusive scuba diving vacation venue. The resort is set in a beautiful beach front location called Pretty Bush, it is surrounded by coconut palms with 10 spacious, air conditioned deluxe rooms, all with large private balconies overlooking its own white sand beach and the crystal waters of the Caribbean. From the beach our guests have access to unlimited shore diving night or day on 3 of the best south side dive sites. Scuba diving on Utila is rich and varied with more than 130 buoyed sites around the island. The North side of Utila has the second largest barrier reef in the world with awe inspiring sheer walls dropping to over 1,000 meters. The South side of Utila consists mainly of shallow fringing reefs, the top of the reef at around 5 meters dropping down to between 30 & 40 meters. Then of course during the surface intervals the whale shark search is on. Scuba diving heaven!!

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July 4th 2007

We now have our new dock and kit room with lockers for guest dive gear just 5 minutes behind the rooms and we have just put in a new engine in our dive boat the Walnut. Swin and Matt are really excited as it now only takes 40 minutes to the North side of Utila island instead of 60 minutes. The Walnut now actually planes across the water. We have our normal East trade winds which makes the sea a little choppy but keeps the bugs away. Lots of Seahorses and Pipehorses around at the moment and a couple of Frogfish.