Scuba Diving in Belize Barrier Reef, Belize

Dive Site: Blue Hole

Six miles north of Halfmoon Caye at Lighthouse Reef and about fifty miles due east of Belize City is the Blue Hole, the result of a cave which collapsed centuries ago.

Originally a cave, the Blue Hole was formed about 10,000 years ago when the roof collapsed. Visible from outer space, the Blue Hole is nearly a perfectly circular hole 1,000 feet in diameter and 412 feet deep.

Popularized by a Jacques Cousteau television special in the 1970’s this has become the most famous dive site in all of Belize - one that avid divers put on their “life list” of places to dive.

Ringed by coral which makes for great snorkeling, the base of this fringing reef gradually slopes to 50 feet, then with sheer walls adorned with stalactites and stalagmites to a ledge between 120-150 ft.

Courtesy of Belize Tourism Board

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