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Scuba diving in the Blue Hole, Painted Wall and night dive in the Painted Wall in the Lighthouse reef of Belize deel 2a

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Diving on the Blue Hole, Painted Wall and night dive in Painted Wall in the Light House Reef of Belize

De Blue Hole in het Lighthouse reef van Belize

The Blue Hole is a unique dive site in the world. But for the underwater life, you absolutely don't have to visit. Yet we came across a turtle, 7 sharks and 8 large groupers. Diving in the Blue Hole, however you do for its unique structure, gigantic stalagmites and stalactites you can see from a depth of 38 to 45m. It's fantastic to swim between these huge stalagmites and stalactites. There are even stalagmites and stalactites that are larger than 4 times the length of a diver with fins. Strange is that the gigantic stalagmites and stalactites in the Blue Hole aren't 100% straight hanging down or in the upright position. Presumably the Blue Hole is sagged by earthquakes out of alignment after the stalagmites and stalactites were already constituted. The Blue Hole used to be a cave after which the ceiling was depressed by the rise of the seawater and increasing pressure of the water on the walls.

The Blue Hole is a unique dive site in the world. But for the underwater life, you absolutely don't have to visit. Yet we came across a turtle, 7 sharks and 8 large groupers. Diving in the Blue Hole, however you do for its unique structure, gigantic stalagmites and stalactites you can see from a depth of 38 to 45m. It's fantastic to swim between these huge stalagmites and stalactites. There are even stalagmites and stalactites that are larger than 4 times the length of a diver with fins. Strange is that the gigantic stalagmites and stalactites in the Blue Hole aren't 100% straight hanging down or in the upright position. Presumably the Blue Hole is sagged by earthquakes out of alignment after the stalagmites and stalactites were already constituted. The Blue Hole used to be a cave after which the ceiling was depressed by the rise of the seawater and increasing pressure of the water on the walls.

Painted Wall in Long Caye

Painted Wall in lung Caye is a plateau with drop off. It's overgrown with coral, gorgons, sea fan, sea plum, sea rod, tube sponges, giant barrel sponges, bran ching vase sponges, e.a. In terms of special fish we spotted drum fish, spotted stingray and langoustes (which in the Caribbean Sea don't appear very often. You can opt for deep and shallow dives on Painted Wall. Therefore, all category of divers can find something to their liking. During this dive, we experience a stronger current on top of the plateau, something we hadn't encountered yet, in the previous diving. The current is pleasant, as you can effortlessly let yourself float away with the current, but it's hell taking photos of it! However, on the drop off side of the dive site Painted Wall the current more or less disappeared. We saw a nice seahorse, although we weren't in their breeding ground of the mangrove forests. In the mangrove forests is moreover not dived as it also houses salt water crocodiles and it's too densely overgrown.

Painted Wall night dive in Long Caye

Since it gets dark pretty early in Belize, you can plan a night dive at 17:30. This is what we did. Another benefit is that this gives you the opportunity to enjoy one of the multiple tasty cocktails of CC Huracan Divers! The sea was a little more restless than the previous dives. It almost feels like a washing machine dive! However, there's a lot of marine life on the hunt. A large channel clinging crab, a dormant hogfish, lobsters, e.a. And as icing on the cake, CC of Huracan Divers, prepared for us a spectacular meal; langoustines - Norwagian lobsters, that we'd seen swimming around us about an hour ago. The langoustines were delicious!

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