Diving in Belize
#1
Posted 24 June 2004 - 09:31 PM
I plan to go on a trip to Belize and have a couple of questions.
When is the best time to dive there?
What is the total dive season?
When is the worst time to dive there?
When is low season?
What did you like best about diving in Belize?
Doris
#2
Posted 24 June 2004 - 09:42 PM
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#3
Posted 25 June 2004 - 08:21 AM
This is what a friend told me who really knows ;-)
"The best time to go is May 3rd. You could go now, but it gets very hot. And later in the fall they get the hurricane season. Maybe you like it that way. I think
April and May are the best."
Smiles across the wires,
Roger
Anyone else have any info on Belize? Several of you have asked that we consider it for an SD trip! -ww
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#4
Posted 25 June 2004 - 08:44 AM
Doc
#5
Posted 25 June 2004 - 11:49 AM
Hi,
I plan to go on a trip to Belize and have a couple of questions.
When is the best time to dive there?
What is the total dive season?
When is the worst time to dive there?
When is low season?
What did you like best about diving in Belize?
Doris
Springtime brings the threat of Thunderstorms, as they're still getting, along with wind causing waves. Summer & Fall is Hurricane Season, and of course, there's Winter storms. Go anytime. It's always a gamble...
Really, I won't go back unless it's a SD.com trip. Roatan's south walls and Fantasy Island are just so much better, anyway. But I would go with SD.com, as it is a cute town, and the canyons and atolls are different.
If you go without SD.com, and in case you didn't see it on my report....
I'd try to go with Pro Tech, first. Ask for Roni, one of the owners, and tell him I referred you - he would remember me as DandyDon from the other board.
His prices are currently about the same as the others - $1 higher here, $1 cheaper there, on some things, and then you get better prices on Nitrox, free use of computers if you don't have one, etc. He'll go up, I'm sure, after he gets more established and well known, but he's a bargain now.
Amigos del Mar is well regarded, too. Pro Tech is currently referring dives to them for Blue Hole trips.
Hope this helps...
Edited by DandyDon, 25 June 2004 - 11:50 AM.
Yeah I know: I've been branded a non-group person - doesn't play well with others. I am so upset. Let me know if you want to have some fun, without the drama - I'm good for that.
#6
Posted 25 June 2004 - 01:44 PM
I Love Belize!!! I have no clue when is the best or worst season to dive but I can tell you a lot of things I liked about Belize. First, you need to decide where in Belize you are going. I have never been in the south of Belize so I do not know anything about it. When I dive Belize I stay in San Pedro (North). This little town is situated in a key so you need to take a puddle jumper to get there. There is not much to do in the key except to dive and rest. However, my best sugestion is that if you dive from San Pedro, pay a little bit extra and take a boat to the Belize Blue Hole. Too many people have told me that the Blu Hole is over rated. However, for me, it was one of my best dives ever. The boat took us to the Blue Hole a few hours away form San Pedro. After we got there, the Boat Captain Chummed the water. In a few seconds, there were tons of sharks all over the place. After we jumped in the water, we got to see plenty of Nurse Sharks. After the group was together, we initiated our decent to 140 feet. At that point I was narced like never before. But the view was absolutely gorgeous. There were stalactites and stalacmites all over the walls of the hole forming some sort of a cave-like formation. When I looked back, there were about seven or eight sharks following us. They looked like reef sharks altough I think I saw a few tigers.
After the dive was over, the captain took us to another atoll nearby; the Lighthouse Reef. The place was spectacullar and the sealife was plenty. I have some videos and pictures for Belize so if you want more info, let me know. Finally, don't skip Shark-Ray alley. Is only about three minutes in boat form San Pedro and you will be surrounded by Southern Stingrays and Nurse Sharks.
I hope I was able to help you some.
Stay Cool, Stay Wet
Julio
#7
Posted 25 June 2004 - 01:50 PM
#8
Posted 25 June 2004 - 01:54 PM
Are any of them single or buddyless? Maybe you can tell them about us and let them post what they thought about Belize while they are checking us out??????hi doris, our dive shop has a group of people down there now due to return 6-26-04 late. if you like i can put you in touch with some of them next week, happy diving, bob
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710 Dive Buddy Lane; Salem, SC 29676
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#9
Posted 25 June 2004 - 02:38 PM
#10
Posted 25 June 2004 - 03:01 PM
One word for you....SWEET!!!i'm pushing sd as hard as i can in mississippi. I guess they don't like diving as much I do. have a good weekend people and keep it safe, bob
And Thank You!!!
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2234 North Federal Hwy, #1010 Boca Raton, FL 33431
formerly...
710 Dive Buddy Lane; Salem, SC 29676
864-557-6079 tel/celfone/office or tollfree fax 888-480-0906
#11
Posted 25 June 2004 - 08:17 PM
DandyDon, yes, I want to make the trip to Belize with SD.com too. WreckWench/Kamala and I were talking about the trip and I started this thread to help her out with the research.
So hopefully I will see you on the trip next year.
Julio, WOW … what an exciting report … I want to jump on the plane tomorrow to go to San Petro.
Bob, if your friends do not want to give a report about their experience on SD.com, it would be great to put WreckWench or me in contact with them.
Kamala, the way I see it right now, beginning of May is probably a good time to go.
Doris
#12
Posted 25 June 2004 - 08:57 PM
#13
Posted 25 June 2004 - 10:07 PM
Yep...that is what Roger said too! I think he/you/she/they are and were right! LOL!!! (Too many genders!!!)Kamala, the way I see it right now, beginning of May is probably a good time to go.
Doris
Contact me directly at Kamala@SingleDivers.com for your private or group travel needs or 864-557-6079 AND don't miss SD's 2018-2021 Trips! ....here! Most are once in a lifetime opportunities...don't miss the chance to go!!
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"Imitation is the sincerest flattery." - Gandhi
"Imitation is proof that originality is rare." - ScubaHawk
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Kamala Shadduck c/o SingleDivers.com LLC
2234 North Federal Hwy, #1010 Boca Raton, FL 33431
formerly...
710 Dive Buddy Lane; Salem, SC 29676
864-557-6079 tel/celfone/office or tollfree fax 888-480-0906
#14
Posted 26 June 2004 - 11:29 AM
Julio, it would be really great if you can post some pictures on the board so everybody can see them.Hi Doris!!
I Love Belize!!! I have no clue when is the best or worst season to dive but I can tell you a lot of things I liked about Belize. First, you need to decide where in Belize you are going. I have never been in the south of Belize so I do not know anything about it. When I dive Belize I stay in San Pedro (North). This little town is situated in a key so you need to take a puddle jumper to get there. There is not much to do in the key except to dive and rest. However, my best sugestion is that if you dive from San Pedro, pay a little bit extra and take a boat to the Belize Blue Hole. Too many people have told me that the Blu Hole is over rated. However, for me, it was one of my best dives ever. The boat took us to the Blue Hole a few hours away form San Pedro. After we got there, the Boat Captain Chummed the water. In a few seconds, there were tons of sharks all over the place. After we jumped in the water, we got to see plenty of Nurse Sharks. After the group was together, we initiated our decent to 140 feet. At that point I was narced like never before. But the view was absolutely gorgeous. There were stalactites and stalacmites all over the walls of the hole forming some sort of a cave-like formation. When I looked back, there were about seven or eight sharks following us. They looked like reef sharks altough I think I saw a few tigers.
After the dive was over, the captain took us to another atoll nearby; the Lighthouse Reef. The place was spectacullar and the sealife was plenty. I have some videos and pictures for Belize so if you want more info, let me know. Finally, don't skip Shark-Ray alley. Is only about three minutes in boat form San Pedro and you will be surrounded by Southern Stingrays and Nurse Sharks.
I hope I was able to help you some.
Stay Cool, Stay Wet
Julio
#15
Posted 26 June 2004 - 12:02 PM
A couple of the non-divers took a golf cart north, across the new cut resulting from a recent hurricane on the hand-pulled ferry, then drove to the next bar, where there was a betting board on what date the next golf cart would fall in the water. Had been only 2 weeks since the last.
BTW, SP/AC is the only place in Belize where one can obtain Nitrox - all produced by Pro Tech, and has the only hyperbaric chamber in the country. They request $1 per tank donations, which we all did. If you do, and you need the H-chamber, then you don't have to pay a $500 deposit and request a refund from DAN; if you don't contribute, you have to pay the deposit, even if you have DAN.
Half Moon Caye - where the Booby Bird Colony can be viewed:
http://www.ambergris...lfmooncaye.html
- is near The Blue Hole - w :dltears: here everyone goes down 140 feet to see the stalegtites & columns from a cave left from the ice ages.
http://www.ambergris...atbluehole.html
It's common to do lunch on HMCaye, then dive Lighthouse Reef wall twice before heading back to SP/AC.
Another good day trip is Turneffe Atoll. We dived The Elbow first, as there was no current that day, with 4 of us dropping down on the wall to 130, 150, and 260 feet respecitvely, then lunch on the Atoll, then 2 more dives on the walls.
http://www.ambergris...veturneffe.html
Aires, I hope to dive with you there, too, but I hope we do it in June.
Edited by DandyDon, 26 June 2004 - 12:06 PM.
Yeah I know: I've been branded a non-group person - doesn't play well with others. I am so upset. Let me know if you want to have some fun, without the drama - I'm good for that.
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