Northern Main Reef
25 miles of solid barrier reef, one-third mile from ashore with several channels passing through. Mostly deep diving outside the reef in spur and groove coral formations.
Rocky Point Canyons
Known for its tarpon hole, Rocky Point is inside the sheltered waters of the reef to the north end of the island. With 70 to 80 feet spur and groove, shallow canyons, you will see the most brilliantly coloured coral at this site.
Robles Point
Robles Point features unique canyon formations and incredible underwater visibility. This site is abundant with Nassau groupers, lobsters, and spider crabs.
Tortuga Canyons
Basil Jones Canyons
This spur and groove reef site is shallow and packed with attractions not seen elsewhere due to its close proximity to this island. Lens shaped coral stacks and wide sand flats characterize the reef at Basil Jones, but it is the potential of seeing large pelagics that make it worth the effort to get there. Basil Jones lies beyond the normal reach of fishing boats creating a natural refuge for marine life.
Basil Jones Cut
Punta Azul Canyons
Here you can dive through canyon arches carved by a small current originating in Mexico, creating an organic hunting ground for larger fish. This site also attracts big eagle rays, which feed on the micro-organisms that float in the current.
Palmero Canyons
Here you can dive through canyon arches carved by a small current originating in Mexico, creating an organic hunting ground for larger fish. This site also attracts big eagle rays, which feed on the micro-organisms that float in the current.
Palmero Cut
Santa Rita Canyons
Mexico Canyons
Mexico Tunnels
Mexico Rocks
Mexico Cut
Catalan Rocks
Mata Canyons
Punta Arena Taverns
Punta Arena Taverns is called small cut by local guides, as you have to navigate through a small cut in the reef to get to the site. Punta Arena is magnificently unique under water terrain featuring deep canyons tunnels and caves with intervening sand channels.
Pescador Canyons
Caverns 90 – 100 feet deep
Pescador Tunnels
Cavern 90 to 100 feet. Instead of over the reef, you will explore under the reef at this site, swimming through a long tunnel. Big spiny lobsters and spider crabs like to hide in here. At the end of the tunnel, there is a steep drop off to a couple of hundred feet. You will meet Cubero Snappers who come up out of the deep to hunt here during surface interval.
Buena Vista Canyons
Caoba Canyons
Tres Cocos Canyons
Spanish for “Three Coconuts”, Tres Cocos is a spur and groove with deep canyons featuring fantastic red and purple spur walls. Tres Cocos is the spot where sea turtles come during the mating season, and encounters with dolphin occurs most frequently here.
Tres Cocos Cut
Paradise Canyons
Paradise Canyons is blessed with a beautifully unique formation of finger canyons 60 to 70 feet deep, where the coral formations grow wildly and the marine life is abundant. This site is home to cement crucifix statute.
Tackle Box Canyons
Tackle Box Canyons is a 70 to 80 feet dive featuring large swim throughs and narrow canyons decorated with bright red sponges, orange crinoids, and green and red algae. This spot is great for hunting lobster, as they like to hide under the walls here.
Tuffy Canyons
Locally known as “Tuffy Canyons” and located adjacent to Tackle Box, Tuffy Canyons is known for its vibrant marine life. You can almost always see every species of fish including jacks, groupers, snappers, parrot fish, angel fish, barracuda, ells, spider crabs, lobster, and nurse sharks. This site is the perfect spot for student divers with its large sandy bottom.
Entrada San Pedro Cut
Dardanellos Cut
Dos Cocos Canyons
Victoria Canyons
Divers are always commenting about the large canyons, overgrown corals, and variety of fish at Victoria Canyons.
Cypress Canyons
Cypress is where you will find an impressive concentration of orange and white elk horn coral along the spur and groove reef with deep and narrow canyons, and there is a 40 foot long tunnel to swim through. At Cypress the fish are accustomed to being fed and an overwhelming number of them will swim comfortable close to you.
Boca Chica Canyons
Pillar Corals
Pillar Corals is popular with the spotted eagle rays – some people even call it Eagle Ray Canyons.
Hol Chan Marine Reserve
Mayan for “little blue channel”, Hol Chan is one of the most popular dive sites in Belize
Hol Chan Cut
4 to 30 feet – Divers and snorkelers. Channel in the reef thick with marine life. Morey eels, photogenic.
M & M Caverns
60 to 100 feet. Coral caverns. Hundreds of glassy sweepers. Dive light advised.
Pillar Corals
40 to 50 feet. Great for beginners. Proliferation of pillar coral growth. Yellow tail snapper, groupers, porcupinefish, spotted drum.
Tres Cocos
70 feet. Name for three coconut tress on shore used to locate the site. Walls decorated with gorgonians barrel, basket and tube sponges. Groupers, queen angels. Rays, sharks in season.
Victoria Tunnels
70 to 100 feet. Thirty types of pristine corals. Long tube tunnels through the reef. Clouds of blue tang. Great swim-through opportunies.
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