Dive Belize advice

[Looka]

Any body can help me, am looking to visit Belize for diving with my wife, any recommendations?

[Dragonfire]

The premier sites are outside of the local diving venues and include Turnoff-Elbow, Turneffe-North & Lighthouse Reef. It's questionable that you'll have the time to do these, but you might want to check anyway. Locally, I'm partial to the far southern sites such as Shark & Ray Alley, Hol Chan Cut & Hol Chan Canyons.
Here is a map for Belize dive sites that I got from the internet

[Zeus]

The largest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere, Belize's 185-mile-long barrier reef is second only to Australia’s and a lot closer and cheaper for North American divers. Here you can experience more than 70 species of hard coral and 400 species of fish, plus three of the Caribbean's four rare coral atolls and one of the most coveted dive sites on earth—the Blue Hole.
Ambergris Cay, a narrow, 25-mile-long island located a 20-minute flight from Belize City, is the most popular base for exploring the reefs. Many hotels and dive shops on this laid-back island sell dive packages.
Popular local reef sites such as Cypress Garden, Victoria Cavern, Mayan Princess, and Tackle Box Canyon can be reached by a short boat ride. "Groupers, barracudas, sting and eagle rays, turtles, and nurse sharks are commonly seen here, as well as reef sharks, dolphins, and manta rays from time to time,”.
You can upgrade the night dive to a full-day excursion to the Blue Hole and two other sites in the Lighthouse Reef Atoll. More than 400 feet deep and 1,000 feet across, the Blue Hole is an ancient limestone cave whose ceiling collapsed, forming a perfectly circular reef. Its depth in comparison to the reef around it produces its color, causing it to look like a deep blue iris staring out of the paler blue Caribbean. You'll dive to a depth of 130 feet, where you can swim among the cavern's massive stalactites and limestone pillars and catch a glimpse of some of region's most fearsome fish: bull, reef, and hammerhead sharks.
Here are some pictures from the bubbles

Have Fun amigo

[Sharky1973]

The Barrier Reef lies about half a mile off the win ward side of the island. It is the longest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere and the second longest in the world.
To the east of the Barrier Reef are three separate atoll reefs. There is also a fourth atoll reef, Banco Chinchorro, just to the north in Mexican waters, which will be of particular interest to you if you like wreck diving.
The three Belize atoll reefs are formed on two tiers of submarine ridges: Turneffe and Glover's on one ridge and Lighthouse on a separate ridge farther to the east. This accounts for their similar outlines and NE-SW orientations. Deep marine trenches separate the two ridges.
Inside the reef the water is shallow, with a blue tinge; outside the reef the water is deep and from the air shows a dark royal blue. On very clear days the reef appears as a narrow yellow line dividing the two shades of blue. Only near Ambergris Caye does the reef run so close to a well-populated caye. Here it is an almost solid wall of magnificent coral formation broken only by narrow channels called "quebradas". Here an observant diver can be kept entertained for hours on end by the unending variety, shapes and colors of the tropical coral.


Don’t miss these places, that’s my advice man.

[ksmom]

Is July a good time to dive in Belize? What is the chance of a hurricane and is it hot or off season or peak season? Has anyone dived there in the summer?