Dive from San Pedro or Lighthouse Reef (Huracan/Itza) or Both?

[scubadada]

Being newly certified and with only 8 dives under your belt, you may want to reconsider doing the Blue Hole. That is not a dive for beginners.

It's not much of a dive for anyone Trip Report - Belize on the Aggressor IV April 9-16, 2022

 

[Boiler_81]

I agree with your assessment of the Blue Hole. I did it last week. The vis was terrible, and the formations were not that great.

We did it on air. On my Shearwater set to medium, I had two minutes of deco. I'm not sure what my back up VT3 showed as I just wear only in case of a failure of the Shearwater.

I certainly wouldn't do it again.

 

[d^2b]

Yep, the blue hole does kind of eat 2/3 of a day of diving on the Aggressor itineraries. This was one of the cool parts of our recent Itza [1] stay. They have multiple boats so we were able to get 3-4 dives around Lighthouse on the day the new-to-Belize divers went to the Blue hole.

[1]: Trip Report - Itza Resort. March 2022

 

[scubadada]

Yep, the blue hole does kind of eat 2/3 of a day of diving on the Aggressor itineraries. This was one of the cool parts of our recent Itza [1] stay. They have multiple boats so we were able to get 3-4 dives around Lighthouse on the day the new-to-Belize divers went to the Blue hole.

[1]: Trip Report - Itza Resort. March 2022

On the BA IV, we went there early in the morning, 1st boat there. Did the Half Moon Caye land tour and still got in 2 afternoon dives and a night dive. If I ever went again, would not vote for the Blue Hole. Once was enough, or I would not be able to say this

 

[Haiawata]

San Pedro is a good diving destination, and plenty of life above the Ocean in San Pedro. I have been to few live-a-board, so not in this area. To get most of these, you would make a lot of dives, I would not recommend this to people with 8 dives under the belt. Blue Hole is fantastic, but again. You might not be trained or even certified for a deep dive. There are many other dive spots around Ambergris Cae, and as of last December these are in a good shape.