Blue Hole Diving

[Me]

I have to agree with some of the others, that a blue hole dive is kind of a "BTDT, I got the t-shirt" dive. Something to tick off your list. I did the blue hole in Belize about five years ago and found it to be worth ONE dive. Those that were open water certified thought it was fantastic, my late BF and I, who were/are full cave thought it interesting for one dive. The dive plan was to drop to 100ft max, swim around for X minutes, rise to safety stop and surface. The funny part of the dive....my BF and I were literally "catching" newbie divers who were plummeting like bricks and would have far exceeded the 100 ft max depth if we hadn't have caught them. To say the least, the dive op DM's looked very relieved when we caught some of them as they had their hands full with the majority of the divers.

[Slüdge]

I did the blue hole in Belize about five years ago and found it to be worth ONE dive.

That's exactly one dive more than I thought it was worth.

But the "blue hole dives" Brian does are a completely different thing.

[TJDiver]

That looks pretty awesome, perhaps it is a seasonal issue, I was there in Nov, what time of year were you there?

We were there in June. We were taking a vote on what would be our last dive, when we got a call from another boat informing us of the large number of sharks at the blue hole. We were told there are normally just a few sharks there (maybe as many as a dozen), and none of our crew or passengers had any clue as to why there were so many there that day. Most were down in the hole, and the remainder...maybe a couple dozen...were continously circling the rim. It was a pretty impressive sight.