Big Bight

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Located 10 minutes East from the main Utila Harbor, you will find Big Bight. This dive site can be identified from the surface by noticing a beach covered with Larger washed up pieces of coral.The beach itself is protected on either end by sharp lava rocks with jagged edges and steep walls coming out of the water.

On this site it is common to see: Barrel Spongers, Branching corals, Anemones, Channel Clinging Crabs, Spiny and Spanish Lobsters, Green Moray Eels, Groupers and a variety of sea slugs.

Dive Activity

Wildlife Sightings

Wildlife Sightings are Based on User Generated Content

Barracuda

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Wrasse

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Eagle Ray

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Bottlenose Dolphin

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Hawksbill Turtle

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Octopus

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Lionfish

11 Sightings
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Angelfish

8 Sightings
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Parrotfish

7 Sightings
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Stingrays

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Squirrelfish

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Pufferfish

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Boxfish

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Butterfly Fish

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Damselfish

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Porcupinefish

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Nurse Shark

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Jackfish

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Scorpionfish

1 Sightings
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Snapper

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Surgeonfish

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Sweetlips and Grunts

1 Sightings
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Soldierfish

1 Sightings
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Triggerfish

1 Sightings
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Goatfish

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Trumpetfish

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Emperor

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Squid

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Shrimp

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Spiny Lobster

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Crab

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Sea Wasp

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