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On April 30, 2011 the traditional canoe race from Iguana Creek Bridge to the Agriculture Show took place and staff members John Searle, Jamani Balderamos and Paul Hyde participated in this event. John is a member of the Belize Canoe Association and he was able to get SMART, a local phone company, to sponsor the entire race! SMART has [...]
Two New Open Water Divers, Connor & Ben Searle, help Manage Lionfish!
By Administrator | May 2, 2011
Please welcome two new PADI Open Water Divers to the world of diving! Connor and Ben Searle were visiting Belize for the long Easter weekend with their family and became the newest Open Water Divers with Sea Sports Belize! After completing the Open Water Course with their Uncle John, Ben and Connor Searle along with their [...]
Two Endangered West Indian Manatees on the Belize Barrier Reef! Photo Linda Searle On April 13, 2011 two manatees and two sea turtles were observed during a 45 minute snorkel tour on the Belize Barrier Reef! Turtles are exciting to see on any visit to the reef, but seeing a manatee, or two manatees is [...]
In March 2011 ECOMAR launched the Belize Turtle Watch program to assess baseline populations of sea turtles feeding and nesting in Belize. Khristina Bonham is a University of Exeter student gathering scientific data to complete her Master’s degree and helping ECOMAR launch the In-water Observation portion of the project which utlizes observations made by divers, snorkelers [...]
The reason we dive is to explore the underwater world and observe marine life naturally. When a pod of dolphins joins you on a dive it is a very special experience. This doesn’t happen this often, but recently we have been seeing a lot of dolphins on our dives. John saw one dolphin on February [...]
Jamani and a group of very lucky divers encountered 9 spotted dolphins while diving at The Lounge on Feb 17, 2011. The dolphins were very curious and stayed around for 15 minutes! This must have beena spectacular sighting and I hope our divers will share the pictures they took very soon!
John “Pooh” Gongora was culling lionfish today at Turneffe Atoll where he captured 8 large (14″+ total length) lionfish to eat and one lionfish he captured was eaten by a Nassau grouper! Rumor is there is a photo of some fins sticking out of the groupers mouth and we hope to post them by tomorrow. [...]
Today we had divers and snorkelers and went to Sergeant’s Caye and it was an amazing day! The divers visited Princess Palace and The Chute while our snorkelers were touring the shallow reefs around Sergeant’s Caye. The divers saw about 10 lionfish on each dive, moray eels, garden eels and lobster, a neck crab (cool!) [...]
…and purchase a calendar from Sea Turtle Conservancy! This calendar is published by the former Caribbean Conservation Corps and includes photographs of sea turtles from all over the world. September is a special month for us as a photo taken by Linda Searle is the month of September, where we have many celebrations in Belize [...]
