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Scuba Diving in Belize: Turneffe Atoll, Lighthouse Reef |
Belize consistently ranks among the top Caribbean dive destinations and Turneffe Flats is ideally located to take advantage of some of the best scuba diving in Belize. Over 60 dive sites around the Turneffe Atoll where divers are within easy reach to dive the Lighthouse Atoll, the famous Blue Hole; both dive sites are only an hour's boat ride away.
As the largest coral atoll in the Caribbean, Turneffe offers varied underwater dive terrain of spur and groove formations, sandy ledges and sheer walls providing spectacular dive sites to suit every level of diver.
The Eastern, windward side of Turneffe is protected by 35 miles of reef. It shelves gradually to about 60 ft. where spur and groove formations meet the wall. Nutrients produced in the mangroves are dispersed on the reef by the tides and gentle currents causing huge concentrations of feeding fish on this side of the wall.
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