วันศุกร์ที่ 19 กุมภาพันธ์ พ.ศ. 2553

The Worlds Finest Dive Sites # 3 - The Blue Hole of Belize


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Located about 60 miles from the capital, Belize City, The Blue Hole has every right to be mentioned in our list of the world's best dive sites. It is unique and dramatic geological formation at a dive site, stays long in the memory, which all had the opportunity, which seem to follow.

The "Blue Hole" is located in the center of Lighthouse Reef, and was originally formed by the collapse of a series of underwater caves in the reef.Today, the resulting "Blue Hole" measures "to about 300 meters in diameter and is about 450 meters deep.

Barely visible from the surface starts to dive site with a slope of about 25 meters away where banks gradually sloping sandy, and the Blue Hole open properly. As you continue down the rapid, steep walls gradually breathtaking stalactites, up to 25 feet in length, along the walls of the cave bottom.

The "Blue Hole" is a short,Deep Dive, and there level of about 40 meters, before they slowly make your way through the amazing underwater landscape created by stalactites. After a short time, the exploratory study of the stalactites, begin a slow, gradual climb in trying to look at a selection of large sharks, which have their own place in the diving catch. Here you can encounter hammerheads and bull sharks, even if barrier and lemon sharks are much moreoften sighted.

During the dive site there is an enormous amount of marine life, although there Belize hosted the world's second largest barrier reef, which is not far. The absence of marine life in the Blue Hole was maintained through the exchange of low tide, along with the low level of light in the deepest depths of the hole of entry.

Since Jacques Cousteau, the famous diving spot in 1960 was delayed, increasingNumber of divers have been traveling in Belize, and the "Blue Hole" in particular. Given the unique nature and location of this incredible dive site, it is easy to understand why, and this trend certainly seems to only continue.

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