Scuba-diving in Belize
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Experience some of the world’s best, and quietest, diving.
For anyone wanting to dive amid beautiful coral and with a spectacular array of fish the Belize Barrier Reef is hard to beat. The 186-mile reed is part of a chain of coral stretching from Mexico to Honduras and is second only to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in terms of size.
Apart from the huge range of sea-life what sets Belize’s reef apart is its proximity to land. In the Australia the reef is a long way offshore, at least a 90-minute boat ride, but in Belize it is often only just more than a stone’s throw from the beach. The main advantage of this is that you can spend far less time there and combine it with a number of other trips in Central America, you can easily spend just a day diving the reef before heading off elsewhere.
One of the most popular diving sites in Belize is the Great Blue Hole, an almost perfectly round sinkhole 300m wide and 124 deep, but our recommendation is to head elsewhere to the reef. Despite being a stunning site from the air (the dark blue spot is starkly contrasted by the beautiful turquoise water which surrounds it) the diving is unremarkable, once there, there is very little to see.
The unusual thing about the fish you see here is not the types, they are similar in colour and shape to reef fish the world over, but that here they all seem to have congregated; turtles, conga eels, tuna, manta rays and even sharks were all here. It’s this variety that makes this one of the world’s best diving areas.
Contact Chaa Creek Belize Resort to book your adventure.
