Can the Blue Hole in Belize be for beginners?

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No for the following reasons:
1. Exceeds your BOW certification of 60 feet.
2. Way exceeds your experience level.
3. Your buoyancy skills will not be developed enough to hold your safety stops.
4. Nitrogen Narcosis will be a factor on this dive, and you have neither the experience or the training to handle it.
5. You will most likely still be a hoover and not have the gas to make the round trip. (Uh, that could be kind of important). Typical diver with 2 post certification dives will suck an Aluminum 80 tank dry in 15-30 minutes at 20 feet. Put a 100 Cubic Ft tank on and you will get 20-40 minutes dive time at 30 feet. Add depth, excitement, and well, you won't be down there long and may not have enough to make it back up and do your safety stops.
6. Old rule of thumb to live and dive by, if you are asking “should we” the answer is always NO!. The fact you ask the question is your common sense telling you this is not a good idea. This goes right along with “Hold my beer” and “Watch this!” on the Darwin channel.
 
riverdiver:
I had my own gear with me apek 200 on their al 80 I hit that depth then came up to the rest of the divers at 130' certs mean nothing to me,(you can get rubber stamped for anything) TDI has instructors sell classes on EBay! I have a friend that has over 12,000 dives and does not have a open water cert. I ran into deco on that dive my computer is very senitive and I was getting 3 to 5 dives a day. Was always last on the boat with 1000 plus psi of air.

Their much diving in Ark.
Ed

I agree that anyone can get a cert card, but you still need the knowledge of safe decompression diving and proper dive planning in order to stay alive.

riverdiver:
Their much diving in Ark.

Yep.
 

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