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175 MILES OF REEF TO EXPLOREExperience The Thrilling Adventure Of Diving and Underwater Discovery
AMIGOS DEL MAR
is a PADI Resort Facility, centrally located in San Pedro
Town. We specialize in full service diving, instruction, snorkeling, and
fishing trips. Our boats pick up at most hotel docks and resorts on
Ambergris Caye, free of charge. We go local diving every day, starting at
9:00 a.m. for two dives, then in the afternoon at 1:00 p.m. for two dives.
There are complimentary sodas and bottled water on all of our dive and
snorkel boats. Night dives are also available upon request. In addition to
local diving, we also offer offshore trips to dive the atolls. The trips
that we offer to the atolls are to Turneffe - The Elbow, Turneffe North, and
Lighthouse Reef - The Great Blue Hole. All of these trips are full day
trips. Each trip consists of three dives, continental breakfast, lunch,
snacks, and drinks.
BLUE HOLE
Your trip will include three dives. Your first stop will be the Blue Hole, a 1000 foot circular coral reef that drops 400 feet into an incredible cavern filled with stalactites and awe - inspiring natural formations. On your second dive you will go to Half Moon Caye Wall and marvel at the abundance of its marine life.
After your second dive, a leisurely beach
picnic lunch will be served, followed by a
visit to the Boobie Bird Sanctuary on Half
Moon Caye.
After relaxing on the palm fringed beach,
you are ready for your third dive at the
Aquarium.
Min 6 pax TURNEFFE - NORTHEnjoy a panoramic display of crystal clear Caribbean water and island beauty as the we transport you to Turneffe Atoll. Here you will enjoy three magnificent wall dives. Your first dive will be on the virgin corals of Vincente Wall. Once you surface from your unrushed underwater exploration, you will head to your second dive at Rendezvous Wall. The boat will then take you to Mauger Caye for an enjoyable picnic. After lunch there is a snorkel stop at Dorey Channel. The last dive is at Gorgonian Wall. Here you will discover some extraordinary diving. Surface from your discovery - filled excursion and head back to Ambergris for another delightful Belize evening.
Min 6 pax TURNEFFE - THE ELBOWSome spectacular diving awaits those who choose to do the Elbow. Here you will experience the ultimate in wall diving. The Elbow is your first dive on this trip. There is a total explosion of marine life on this dive. Your second dive is Billy Bob's. This dive is well known for its spotted eagle rays and grouper. Lunch time is spent basking in the sun and enjoying a delightful picnic while waiting to go on your third dive. Next Stop - Myrtle's Turtles- one more fantastic dive to add to your log. Journey back to La Isla Bonita for a relaxing evening.
Min 6 pax
NIGHT DIVESTurn on the night lights! See the nocturnal marine life as you have never seen it before. This one tank dive is a must
Hol Chan Marine Reserve SNORKELINGNon-divers can also explore our wonderful under water world. Several different snorkel trips are available on a daily basis. Hol Chan Marine Reserve, Shark Ray Alley, Coral Garden, Mexico Rocks, Caye Caulker, & Robles Point. FISHINGAmbergris is a sports fisherman's paradise. Trips are done on a four or eight hour basis. What is your pleasure! Reef fishing for barracuda, snapper, jacks, or grouper or Flat fishing for tarpon, bonefish, or permit. DIVE INSTRUCTIONP.A.D.I. instruction available from Open Water Courses through DIVEMASTER and also a number of speciality courses.
Prices subject to change.
What to Expect in San Pedro:
The dive sites off Ambergris Caye are typical of a barrier reef-type
ecosystem. Once the dive boat is secured to one of the 35 mooring buoys
implemented in an effort to avoid anchor damage to the reef, divers enter
the water, finding themselves in a gorgonian plain at 40 feet of water.
Waving sea fans and sea rods dominate the underwater landscape along with
pillar, boulder, and fleshy corals.
A short swim due east of the boat
yields the edge of the deep reef which starts at 60 feet and continues down
well past 100 feet. The majority of the dive is spent between 60-80 feet,
exploring the spur & groove finger canyons, where lobster and Black Drum are
found hiding under alcoves. Large groupers hang around goby cleaning
stations, spotted eagle rays and turtles make an appearance coming over the
lip of the next canyon. Here the boulder corals like the Mountain Star
coral change morphology, opting instead for their deep water plate
formations to maximize the ambient sunlight that penetrates to this depth.
Some of the more adventurous sites are the caverns and tunnels. These are
swim throughs, not caves, where divers exit through chimneys or tunnels to
find themselves at a different location than where they entered.
This should give you some idea of what you can expect to see here in
Ambergris Caye.
We are quite fortunate that we are not limited to one type of reef system.
Our divers can see both the barrier reef, which has its own distinct
topography, as well as the walls offshore at Turneffe and Lighthouse Reef
and last but not least the Blue Hole.
Belize houses three of the five atolls in the Caribbean, , 2 of which are accessible
from Ambergris Caye. One of these is
Lighthouse Reef where the famous Blue Hole is located. This trip is a full
day excursion, which departs at 6:00 a.m. and returns at 5:30 p.m.
This adventure includes three spectacular dives, the first being the Blue
Hole. This is a 1000 foot circular coral reef that drops 400 feet into an
incredible cavern filled with stalactites and awe-inspiring natural
formations.
The second dive is done at Half Moon Caye Wall where the abundance of marine
live is truly something to marvel at. After this dive, a leisurely beach
picnic lunch will be served on Half Moon Caye. Half Moon Caye is a
sanctuary for Red-footed Booby and Frigate birds. There is an observation
tower where it is possible to see all the nesting birds and observe their
behavior.
After relaxing on the palm fringed beach you head to your third dive site
off of Long Caye called the Aquarium.
This completes your day at Lighthouse Reef as you head back to San Pedro.
Depending on whether you run into the dolphins or pilot whales, you should
be back on the island by 6:00 p.m.
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