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Blue Hole Dive Center

Dive Centre Center (English)

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Company description Welcome to BELIZE BLUE HOLE DIVE CENTER, home to some of the best scuba diving in the world.
If you`re looking to get away from high-rise hotels, money traps, artificial resorts and crowded dive and snorkeling sites, WELCOME TO BELIZE!
There are several dive shops on Ambergris Caye, others located conveniently in the heart of San Pedro Town on Barrier Reef Drive, and additional ones located at Caribe Island Resort.
Take the time to browse our electronic dive brochure. In these pages you`ll find out about the history of the Blue Hole, the very best Belize Scuba Diving operators, and some great Snorkeling trips.
If you`re not yet a Certified diver or if you are Certified and would like to further your dive education, check out details of our PADI Dive Instruction courses.
Want more choices? How about Maya Ruins & Rain Forst day trip? There`s lots in Belize for non divers too.
The Blue Hole is considered a deep dive since we go to 130 feet. It isn`t a particularly difficult dive but you must be very conscious of your depth, air supply and bottom time. It isn`t necessary to have an advanced certification (although we certainly do recommend it) to complete this dive. You must by comfortable in the water and we do insist on a logged dive within the past 6 months. Otherwise we`ll ask you to do a day of local diving before heading offshore. Believe me, you`ll be a lot more comfortable and relaxed when all those sharks start swimming by you.
Conditions in Belize are generally good year round. We do get a rainy season from June to November but it`s mostly short daily showers. Day long deluges are rare. After a heavy rain the visability on the local reef may be somewhat diminished until the tide changes. Offshore sites aren`t really affected by rain.
Strong winds may cause the cancellation of diving trips. March is generally the windiest month, with occassional storms in October and November.
You will usually find better hotel prices between May and November. The cost of tours and diving is based on the price of fuel so don`t expect large seasonal discounts.
You can expect to see while diving lots of critters and corals, and few other divers. And also nurse sharks, eagle rays, stingrays, moray eels, sea turtles, grouper, barracuda, jacks, angel fish, parrot fish, yellow tails, snappers, and tangs are all common. Don`t be surprised if you run into dolphins, whales, whale sharks, bull, lemon and grey reef sharks, hammerheads or a manta.
You`ll also see lots of healthy corals and sponges. Some of the barrel sponges are larger than you.
Every Saturday, the luxurious Belize Aggressor III casts off from Belize City for a week of hassle-free wall diving at Turneffe and Lighthouse Reefs. Sheer walls like Painted Wall, Half Moon Caye Wall and Quebrada are adorned with huge crimson gorgonians and wandering, lilac rope sponges. Weather permitting, divers explore the mystical Blue Hole, a collapsed freshwater cave system. With all dives from the mother ship, diving is unlimited. Diving begins Sunday morning and ends Friday before lunch when the Aggressor returns to port. Check-out is Saturday morning. A trip to this Central American paradise isn’t complete without a visit to Belize’s Mayan ruins or a cave tubing ride through the jungle. Tours are offered on Friday afternoon, but an extended stay with a local operator is recommended to fully enjoy the wonders of Belize.
Location description: The Blue Hole is a geological oddity, so much so that in March of 1996 it was declared a World Heritage Site and later declared a National Monument in February of 1999. The Hole used to be, once upon a time millions of years ago, a complex system of dry caves. Scientists believe there were a couple of peculiar events that made the Hole what it is today. First, an earthquake of such force it might have tilted Lighthouse Reef, the area where the Blue Hole is located, to an angle of 12 degrees. Secondly, the melting of the last Ice Age flooded the cave system. Eventually, the porous limestone ceilings of the caves became incapable of supporting their own weight and they crumbled, leaving an almost perfectly round and deep hole in the process.
The Blue Hole is almost 1000 feet in diameter and over 450 feet deep. Its walls are almost perfectly vertical and fairly smooth, except at a few points where there are large ledges and overhangs. It is here that we find enormous stalactites (hanging down), stalagmites (building up) and columns (when stalactites and stalagmites meet) dating from the Pleistocene period. Due to the earthquake mentioned above, some stalactites hang at a 12-degree angle, cluing scientists such an event happened since stalactites cannot form except in a perfectly perpendicular manner. Some formations that happened after the earthquake are indeed perpendicular, and in some of the stalactites that formed before the earthquake one can see the top parts being at an angle and their bottom parts, which kept forming afterwards, being perpendicular.
Jacques Cousteau made the Blue Hole famous in 1972, when he took his famous research vessel, the Calypso, into Lighthouse Atoll and traced a route that is used by dive boats to this day. In fact, it is erroneously often mentioned that Philippe Cousteau, his son, was killed during this trip. However, that happened while he was operating a light-wing plane in Lisbon, Portugal a few years later.

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Spoken language(s): English
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  GMT - 6 Mexico, Monterrey, Guadalajara
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