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Mares, Janez Kranjc

Long Caye Ridge (★4.5)

A beautiful site located in the Lighthouse Reef Atoll accessible only by boat. Beautiful, healthy coral formations with tons of marine life to see.
Mares

Great Blue Hole - Belize (★4.6)

The Great Blue Hole sits just off Lighthouse Reef in Belize and is one of the most famous marine sinkholes in the world. It is 407 feet deep, with many stalactites to be seen. This is an advanced dive due to the depth and seemingly bottomless hole. It is easy to get too deep too fast, so watch your gauges!
Aqualung

Long Caye Aquarium (★4.6)

This is a great little wall dive with the reef starting in just 20 feet of water (good for snorkelers) but then drops off into hundreds of feet deep. The visibility is great, and there is much to see!
Mares

Paradise Canyons (★4.5)

Paradise Canyons offer beautiful finger canyon formations with beautiful coral formations and lots of marine life. This site is boat accessible just off San Pedro with depths of 60-70 feet.
Richard B. (#3927276)

Toffee Canyons (★4.5)

Toffee Canyons is a great dive site just off Ambergris Caye. This is a fairly shallow site great for newer divers and snorkelers. Healthy reef system with lots of marine life to see.
Mares

Hol Chan Marine Reserve (★4.5)

Hol Chan is THE most popular dive area in Belize if not all of the Caribbean. This Marine Park sits just offshore from Ambergris Caye and boasts great visibility, beautiful coral formations, and TONS of marine life.
Mares, Janez Kranjc

Half Moon Caye Wall (★4.7)

Many divers consider Half Moon Caye Wall to be the best dive site in all of Belize. With excellent visibility, consistent and diverse wildlife sightings, and beautiful coral this dive never disappoints. Many diver operators choose this dive as the second dive following the Blue Hole.
Mares

Tuffy Canyon (★4.5)

Also known as Tuffy Rocks, this site sits adjacent to the more popular ’Tackle Box’ dive site. This reef is fairly shallow and is good for newer divers and snorkeling alike. This site is boat accessible.
Scubapro, Stephen Frink

Tackle Box (★4.5)

Tackle Box is a very popular dive site off of Ambergris Caye. It consists of canyons, caverns, tunnels and lots of places to explore for lobsters, eels and good macro life, or schools of jacks around the reef.
Mares, Janez Kranjc

Mayan Princess House Reef (★4.4)

The house reef right off of the Mayan Princess Hotel on Ambergris Caye offers nice, shallow diving good for beginners and snorkelers alike. Not as pristine as the reefs Belize is famous for, but an easy dive that is easily accessible.
Aqualung

Mermaid’s Lair (★4.5)

Mermaid’s Lair sits just off Ambergris Caye and is a great dive and snorkel site with the reef being fairly shallow with no current. This site is accessible by boat only and has great visibility.
Mares, Predrag Vuckovic

Caye Caulker Marine Reserve (★4.2)

This site is a marine protected area just off Caye Caulker with beautiful, healthy reef with copious amounts of live corals and juvenile fishes.
Aqualung

Turneffe Atoll (★4.5)

There are not many actual atolls in the Caribbean and Belize has three of them. Turneffe Atoll is the largest and most visually spectacular of the three.
Mares

Saint George’s Caye (★4.5)

St. George Caye is a private island paradise home to only one resort: St. George Caye Resort and sits not far offshore from Belize City. The resort caters to small groups with Valet Diving and incredible 5-star service from friendly local staff. You can access all of Belize’s famous dive sites from the resort.
Mares, Predrag Vuckovic

Esmeralda Canyon (★4.6)

One of the most beautiful dives off of Ambergris Caye, the Esmeralda Canyons consists of multiple “slot canyon“ like coral reefs making you feel like your swimming up and down rows of bookshelves in a coral library.
Scubapro

Long Caye Wall (★4.4)

A beautiful wall dive on Glover’s Reef within the Lighthouse Reef Atoll. The wall does not disappoint with beautiful, healthy coral growth, giant sponges, and tons of marine life to see.
Mares

Mexico Rocks (★4.5)

Mexico Rocks Marine Reserve is a shallow patch reef complex located off the northern tip of Ambergris Caye. The site consists of approximately 100 Holocene patch reefs and is composed predominantly of boulder corals all in very shallow water making this a great snorkel site.
Mares

San Pedro - Belize (★4.5)

One of the most popular dive areas on the island of Ambergris Caye in Belize
Aqualung

San Pedro Canyons - Belize (★4.4)

Tuffy Canyons also known as San Pedro Canyons is located directly in front of the main channel of San Pedro Town. It has a variety of stony corals which forms a loose framework that supports a multitude of protective homes for small invertebrates such as the Brittle Star Fish, Shrimps and Crabs.
Mares

Cypress Canyons (★4.4)

Cypress Canyons is a spur-and-groove reef with deep and narrow canyons running perpendicular to the reef line. Coral spurs crest at 50-70 ft whereas the sand-floored cuts fall off rapidly to depths of 100 fl. A very cool, beautiful site.
Mares

Tres Cocos Canyons (★4.5)

Directly outside of the Tres Cocos cut, Tres Cocos Canyons is a beginner level dive site. There is a mooring ball and the current, if any, is usually very mild and from the north.