The Great Blue Hole

Amazing diving spot

The Great Blue Hole

This natural phenomenon has transformed into an ancient cave diving all-powerful. When viewed from space, The Great Blue Hole is located off the coast of Belize, Central America, it looks like eyeballs.

"This is the deepest abyss and the bluest ever. A solid rock formations form a cave thousands of years ago. During that time, the water slowly filled the cave. Until giant stalactites and stalagmites deep in a hole hundreds of feet deep."

Something like that NASA researchers said, Glyn Collinson on belize.com, the official website of the country of Belize. Collinson The Great Blue Hole dive to feel its own grandeur of the giant cave under the water. After all, who are not enamored of the beauty of this hole saw from space?

The Great Blue Hole is located off the coast of Belize, Central America. Located in the middle of Lighthouse Reef, a collection of coral atolls that stretches 96 kilometers in length. With a perfectly round shape, The Great Blue Hole is about 400 meters in diameter, with a depth of approximately 145 meters.

In 1997, UNESCO label this place as a World Heritage Site.

Millions of years ago, The Great Blue Hole is a cave with stalactites and stalagmites ancient giants. When the ice age ended, sea levels rose to cover the surface of the cave. Now, The Great Blue Hole dive into one of the points most in demand by professional divers.

Let's start from the surface. If diving to a depth of 20 meters, you can find some kind of shrimp, anemones, neon gobies, Angelfish, Butterflyfish well. At a depth of 44 meters, stalactite formations will greet you first.

Diving here will make you feel like there is in another world. The water is barely moving, with no waves or currents at all. Temperature at depth is about 24 degrees celcius. In the dark blue waters, you can dive among giant stalactites and stalagmites. Each has a height ranging from 9-12 meters in diameter from 1.5 to 3 meters.

With visibility only 60 feet, you're lucky (or just do not) when you see one or several types of sharks that pass. There is a Nurse Shark, Caribbean Reef Shark, Blacktip Shark, Bull Shark, Hammerhead Shark also the residents of this blue hole.

Right you are, maybe The Great Blue Hole will not spoil your eyes with colorful fish that swim among the coral. But you can witness the sharks that pass among giant stalactites and stalagmites.

Diving to the west of The Great Blue Hole, you will find an entrance to a giant cave. Here, lit a torch under water is a liability. In total darkness, you will enter a world untouched.