Diving off the barrier reef of Belize for shut to 4 several years is ample to spoil most everyone and Belize is one particular wonderful position to expend your times diving. The reefs are nevertheless pristine and in areas like my individual most loved, Seal Caye, at the base of the Sapodilla Cayes, virtually unbelievable. If you anchor carefully, you can set your anchor in 8 toes of sand at the entrance of your boat and 80 toes at the stern, then slide off together 1 of the most attractive walls you can visualize. And quick to dive. You can do a amount of distinctive profile dives in this article and end the dive in ten to fifteen toes of crystal clear drinking water in advance of surfacing.
The diving listed here is truly earth class. You can head down to 80 as well as feet if you want but from my encounter diving this quite a few periods, I observed the most effective marine life and coral over 65 feet, frequented by Eagle Rays who flew previous just off to your left if you are travleing clockwise close to the reef.
There are tube sponges as tall as a complete grown person along the walls here. So, if you are in southern Belize, look at this spot out.
Off Ranguana Caye, leading center photo and major photograph on the proper, in the direction of the south, there is a challenging to locate internet site termed The White Gap. If you leave the island from the southern side and head towards the reef about five miles absent, you will come across 3 breaks in the reef and three sandy ravines which direct to the wall.
It is extremely hard to discover and I recommend you uncover Arthur Westby in the village and have him show you exactly where it is. Arthur was my divemaster and close friend for the yrs I dove in Belize and he’ll show you the location.
It functions a big canyon of gleaming white sand at 45 toes which operates down to a significant opening and a lip which surrounds the sand as it settles at the top of the wall. As you swim to this lip at 55 ft and peer around, there is almost no base. I brought a lot of state-of-the-art divers that I was certifying there so they could experience the ponder of a correct barrier reef wall dive.
Going together the wall at 55 toes is a magical drift dive as you travel beside the wall on your left and the coral on your proper.
To the north of Ranguana lays a garden of spur and groove formations just west of the wall that you can effortlessly spend dozens of dives discovering. In among the grooves are household to resting Nurse Sharks and a huge range of maritime existence far too various to list. Really worth numerous dives.
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