Diving the Great Blue Hole
| Name divesite: | Great Blue Hole |
| Depth: | 10-40m (32-131ft) and deeper |
| Visibility: | 10-30m (32-98ft) |
| Accessibility: | Boat |
| Time to visit: | All year around with warmest water in summer (apr-aug) |
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At a part of the Lighthouse Reef system we can find the Blue Hole, only recently made a World Heritage Site. It is one of the highlights for divers in this part of the world. It is a sunken underwater cave
of approximately 300 meters in diameter and 145 meters deep. At about 35 meters you can see the top of an underwater cave which contains stalagmites and stalactites. When lucky, sharks like the blacktip tiger and hammerhead can be found here. But on most dives, there won't be much to 
see in these deeper waters. When diving shallower though, you will find lots of life. Bull sharks, cods are just some of the bigger examples. Also the snorkeling around the perimeter is fabulous. Lots of color in crystal clear and quiet water.
Dive packages often combine a trip to the blue hole with diving at Half Moon Caye wall and seeing red footed Boobies at a nearby island.
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| Name: Lars Hemel | Date: 2006-11-22 |
| My dive here was fantastic. It starts with diving down into the deep black darkness. Going slowly down to almost 40 meters of depth, taking a quick look at the stalagmites there, and then we had to ascend again. Between 30 and 20 meters we were surrounded by eight or nine bull sharks. They were just waiting for one of us to exit the group. Then, at our safety stop, we were surrounded by big cods. And that's all the life I have seen, three kinds of species. As I said! Simplicity at its best! | |
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