What are some recommended dive sites?

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Belize has some of the most spectacular dive sites in the world, offering unparalleled opportunities to explore diverse marine ecosystems and encounter fascinating underwater species. Here are some top picks:

  • The Blue Hole, Lighthouse Reef Atoll: World’s largest at 1,000 ft diameter, plunges 440 ft into darkness, adorned with stalactites.
  • Half Moon Caye Wall, Lighthouse Reef Atoll: Vibrant reef and wall, home to colorful corals, slow-moving garden eels, and diverse marine life including eagle rays and sea turtles.
  • Aquarium: Abundant fish life along a sheer drop-off, featuring large sponges, sea fans, and diverse marine species like reef sharks and groupers.
  • Angel Fish Wall: Named for friendly grey angelfish, teeming with small fish, occasional sightings of eagle rays and sharks.
  • Black Beauty: Known for turtles and eagle rays, with coral mounds, sandy channels, and a vertical wall from 50 ft.
  • Cathedral: Colorful formations resembling cathedral steeples, home to various fish species, black groupers, and occasional Spanish dancers on night dives.
  • Elbow: Advanced dive with opportunities to spot large pelagics like eagle rays and sharks, often with strong currents.
  • Elk Horn Forest: Shallow area with large lettuce leaf coral mounds and elk horn corals housing juvenile fish.
  • Long Caye Wall: Features swim-throughs and ridges with soft corals, sponges, and eels, named for its protruding reef ridge.
  • Painted Wall: Clusters of painted tunicates in depths of 40-70 ft, with shallows inhabited by parrotfish and queen triggerfish, adorned with overhung walls of black coral trees and rope sponges.
  • Quebrada: Sheer and active stretch of wall with diverse marine life including green moray eels, spotted drum, and tarpon on night dives, owing to its plankton-rich currents.
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