Turneffe, Lighthouse Atolls & Blue Hole

Trip highlights: turtles, great macro life/ marine diversity, schooling fish & big pelagics

Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, drift diving, healthy reefs, wall diving

Dive sites and activities: Turneffe Atoll and Lighthouse Reef including The Great Blue Hole of Belize

Day 1
You’ll board the Belize Aggressor III at the Radisson Fort George Hotel Dock in Belize City. After a warm welcome with refreshing drinks and an introductory briefing, you’ll have time to settle in and meet the exceptional liveaboard crew and your fellow divers. Savor a chef-prepared dinner, then relax and recharge for the extraordinary diving adventure that awaits.

Core Days
Over the next week onboard the Belize Aggressor, you'll explore the breathtaking reefs of Turneffe Atoll and Lighthouse Reef. The diving is suitable for all levels, with generally mild currents allowing you to immerse yourself at ease in the stunning underwater landscapes.
The cruise will include popular dives sites such as the Great Blue Hole. Descend into the colossal collapsed cavern to witness the ancient stalactites that hang from the wall at 110 feet (35m). The surrounding crown reef is a nursery for juvenile fish, as well as sea turtles.
The Elbow offers one of your best chances to encounter large pelagics. Prepare to be amazed by huge schools of jacks and snapper, eagle rays, reef sharks, and sometimes hammerhead sharks.
Experience the magic of a large swim-through at Silver Caves, often inhabited by a shimmering vortex of thousands of silversides. The site is also a gathering point for big black groupers and the ubiquitous school of horse-eyed jacks.
Dive through the majestic site of Cathedral, marked by colorful, steeple-like coral formations separated by sandy channels. The area is a hub for marine life, including black groupers, jacks, several species of angelfish, and even Spanish dancers on night dives.
Then at West Point, explore a fascinating labyrinth of vertical reef buttresses that start in shallow water. The walls are adorned with black coral, deep-water gorgonians, and giant barrel sponges, while the sandy bottom is alive with garden eels, peacock flounders, and stingrays.
Your adventure isn't limited to diving the depths of the Caribbean. Weather permitting, you'll visit Half Moon Caye to visit a bird sanctuary and see the red-footed boobies and frigate birds from a treetop observation deck.
On Friday, after a half-day of diving, you can choose an optional land-based excursion to explore ancient Mayan ruins or enjoy a cave tubing adventure through the lush jungle.

Final Day
Check-out from the Belize Aggressor III liveaboard is in the morning after a continental breakfast. An air-conditioned minivan is waiting to escort you back to Belize City airport.

Glover's Reef (8 Days / 7 Nights - 27 Dives)

Trip highlights: turtles, great macro life/ marine diversity, schooling fish & big pelagics

Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, drift diving, healthy reefs, wall diving

Dive sites and activities: Glover’s Reef: Baking Swash Reef, Split Reefs, Shark Point, Grouper Flats, Long Caye Wall, Southwest Caye Wall, Emerald Forest Reef, Wrecks: the Argyle, Polly, the Chance, Fishburn, General Don, the Perseverance

Day 1
Step onboard the Belize Aggressor III liveaboard at the Radisson Fort George Hotel in Belize City to a warm welcome with refreshing drinks and an introductory briefing. Settle into your cabin, meet the crew and your fellow divers, and enjoy a delicious chef-prepared dinner. Rest well, you have a week of unparalleled diving ahead at the remote UNESCO World Heritage Site of Glover’s Reef.

Core Days
Prepare to explore the spectacular and remote Glover's Reef, an oval-shaped coral atoll and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Located 27 miles (43 km) from the mainland, its sparkling lagoon is dotted with over 800 pristine patch reefs and pinnacles. Thanks to its protected status, you'll dive virgin reefs with abundant pelagics in generally mild conditions, making it suitable for scuba divers of all experience levels.
Your adventure will include breathtaking dives at sites such as Shark Point, a site known as a grouper spawning aggregation area that attracts an impressive array of sharks. Be prepared for potential sightings of nurse, blacktip, and even the occasional hammerhead or tiger shark cruising the white sand channels. At Long Caye Wall, you can experience the grandeur of a vertical wall adorned with giant, colorful sponges, black coral, and wire corals. This beautiful site is frequented by sea turtles, eagle rays, manta rays, and curious barracuda. Look down to see garden eels in the sand and gleaming schools of fish in the blue. Be mesmerized by a massive, golden elkhorn coral colony at Emerald Forest Reef that creates a stunning underwater canopy. Explore amidst large basket and tube sponges where snappers, groupers, and angelfish dwell, surrounded by clouds of blue chromis and schools of wrasse. Split Reefs is a kaleidoscope of life, featuring endangered elkhorn coral, large brain corals, and intricate thickets of staghorn coral, all swaying with colorful sea whips and gorgonians. The reef is alive with shimmering schools of blue chromis and sergeant majors.
Glover's Reef is also a graveyard for 16th and 17th-century shipwrecks. Dive alongside history, exploring the remains of vessels like the English merchantman Argyle (1774) or the American ship Polly (1774), which met their fate on these very reefs.
On Friday, after a half-day of diving, the Aggressor liveaboard will return to Belize City, where you can choose an optional land-based tour such as Mayan ruins or cave tubing.

Day 8
After a final continental breakfast on board, it's time to check out. An air-conditioned minivan will be waiting to transfer you to the airport, marking the end of an unforgettable week exploring one of the Caribbean's last true diving frontiers.