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About Blackbird Caye Resort that offers scuba diving in Belize

Blackbird Caye Eco-Dive Resort is another of Belize's dive resorts that offer opportunities for watersports activities including scuba diving, snorkelling and kayaking. This dive resort is located 25 miles off the coast of Belize City, 25 miles away from the coast of Belize City, on Turneffe Atoll, and it hosts 1,300 acres of island forest on a private 2-mile long fine sand beach with 18 individual beachfront, air conditioned cabanas.

Turneffe Atoll's marine life is diverse, and both recreational scuba diving and snorkelling activities available there are of world class, while non divers have opportunity to enjoy relaxing nature walks to observe colorful seabirds (and land birds too). The resort has employed a marine biologist, who right on the site educates those visitors, who are willing, and helps them understand what's interesting and peculiar about the marine life of Belize.

This Belize dive resort offers:

• At least 70 spectacular dive and snorkel sites no more than 12 minutes sailing distance from the resort
• Day excursion to the Blue Hole and Half Moon Caye
• Marine biologist on site
• PADI dive training courses, from Open Water Certification to Divemaster
• Guided expedition kayaking
• Dive colorful reef while contributing to its protection

Dive sites at Blackbird Caye Resort are considered some of the best in the Western Caribbean, with visibility ranging from 100 to 150 feet. Turneffe Atoll is the only Caribbean Atoll made up of dozens of mangrove islands which are the juvenile nurseries for coral reefs. Some of the popular dive spots diver would visit while diving at Blackbird Caye Resort include "The Elbow", "Calabash Cut", "West Side Story", "CoCo Point", "Al's Hideout", 7 or 4-night package trip to the Blue Hole, and "Oasis".

As many of the reefs are shallow and allow easy access. Turneffe offers some of the best snorkeling in the world. Many of the reefs are shallow, allowing for easy access.