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Utila Dive Centre

Dive Centre Center (English)

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Company description Utila Dive Centre was created in 1991 as an adventure diving outpost, located in Utila, the smallest and least developed of the Bay Islands of Honduras. Today, the Centre is owned and operated by a team of young instructors and diving enthusiasts.
Utila Dive Centre was the first dive school and dedicated full service facility in Utila and after years of growth and hard work, Utila Dive Centre is now a PADI Gold Palm Resort and Career Development Center, a National Geographic Dive Center, and the first and only DSAT and IANTD Technical Diving facility in Central America.
Together with our Hotel Mango-Inn, Utila Dive Centre offers quality diving courses and accommodation with the best prices in the world. With an unmatched friendly and professional staff, Utila Dive Centre guarantees you the best time both in and out of the water:
Currently we are the most awarded PADI IDC facility and Career Development Center in Utila, Honduras and Central America. We have recieved over 10 certificates of excellence from PADI in the last few years due to the quality and innovation of our padi IDC`s conducted on Utila and the standard of the PADI Instructors that we train, this is reflected in the fact that all those who choose to stay in Central America and work in the dive industry are rewarded with employment. Come and join us for your professional dive training and discover the excitement and adventure of taking your training with the most rated PADI Carrer Development Center in Central America.
Utila Dive Centre is principally a diving school. We are dedicated to teaching scuba diving and our goal is to introduce this amazing, safe, fun, and unique sport to as many curious, enthusiastic and adventurous, young and old people as possible.
The magnificent underwater world of Utila can be shared now and in the future for generations. We are, by all means, educating and teaching a respect of the sea, taking great care of all of its magical ecosystems and creatures, from the tiny sea horse to the majestic whale shark.
Every year, Utila Dive Centre organizes a clean-up day with PADI`s PROJECT AWARE and supports several others community efforts such as the 2001 Utila Turtle Project. All conducted with astonishing results.
So far, we can proudly say that Utila Dive Centre is accomplishing its mission with great success. We are the leading diving center in Utila and we have certified thousands of new divers over the years. Giving everyone the opportunity to swim with whale sharks and leave with lifelong memories of Utila and this signature dive experience.
For all you sea and nature lovers, please take a moment to browse our web site to discover the beauties of Utila and the services offered by the Utila Dive Centre.
Thank you for your time and don`t hesitate to contact us for any assistance or information you may need in planning your trip to Utila, a very special place…
Most visitors come to Utila because they want to learn to scuba dive on the fantastic reefs that surround the island. Utila Dive Centre offers every PADI diving course from beginner level to professional level at affordable prices.
At UDC we offer not only Recreational Scuba diving courses for the novice diver to master scuba diver, but we also offer a professional training program for those wanting to become dive industry professional. Lastly, we have a technical diving track that includes training both professional and recreational. We also offer a variety of non-diving courses such as equipment maintenance and gas blending.
Location description: Some of our dive sites:
Cj`s Dropoff
Type: Wall
Depth: 20ft.(7m.) to 130ft.(40m.)+
Location: North Side of Island, Turtle Harbor
Travel Time: 30 mins.
Description: The westernmost site of turtle harbor offers an abyssal like wall on this incredible fringing reef. At the mooring the diver is faced with a free fall experience as your descent brings you as close to the continental shelf as you dare go.
Giant barrel sponges protrude as the wall snakes in and out. A glance into the blue reveals sedate loggerhead and hawksbill turtles, a shadow above reveals the majesty of a Manta Ray. Eerie terraces of sheet coral offer scarce protection for lobster shrimp and king crab.
As you continue along the wall a slow descent allows shafts of sunlight to glimmer over Creole wrasse, spadefish and barjacks. As you ascend over the wall lip stunning pillar corals make way to canyons hiding tarpon and grouper. The sheer variety of colour, texture and movement allow an awe-inspiring end to the dive. A crowd pleaser for sure.
Halliburton Wreck
Type: Wreck
Depth: 70ft.(21m.) to 100ft.(30m.)
Location: South Side of Island, Mouth of Eastern Harbor
Travel Time: 5 mins.
Description:
The Halliburton wreck is an artificial wreck that was sunk May 4, 1998. The wreck itself is 100 feet long (30 meters) and 30 feet high (10 meters). This cargo ship rests on the bottom at a depth of 100 feet (30 meters) at a sandy patch with corals heads surrounding it making it a perfect dive site for the advanced diver.
Black Hills
Type: Sea Mound
Depth: 35ft.(10m.) to 130ft.(40m.)+
Location: South Side of Island
Travel Time: 15 mins.
Description:
This dive site rewards the nature-loving diver with a spectacle unmatched in the Bay Islands. Black hills is a seamount rising up to within 35 feet of the surface. As you descend over the oval shaped mount thousands of blue and yellowtail juvenile wrasse wait impatiently to clean the sites larger characters. Gray, French and Queen Angelfish abound darting boldly through a garden of sea fans, whips and gorgonians. As you continue your descent the north and south sides of the mount tempt the deep and technical diver with sharp drop offs between 130 and 200 feet (40 to 60 meters).
The east and west ends of Blackhills offer a more sedate slope opening up to terraces of sheet coral interspersed with giant tube vase and barrel sponge. Upwellings bring colder plankton-rich waters attracting huge schools of horseye jacks, yellowtail snappers, spadefish and Creole wrasse. Barracuda patrol searching for the unwary. Easily circum-navigated, Blackhills offers hawksbill turtles to sea horses, the photographers trigger finger is sure to be sore after this unusual feast. A second visit is a must.

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Contact information:
Phone: 00 504 4253326
Fax: 00 504 4253327
Street Address:
Utila, Bay Islands 34201
Honduras
Spoken language(s): English,Spanish,German
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  GMT - 6 Mexico, Monterrey, Guadalajara
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