Long Caye Aquarium

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What you'll see (19)

Atlantic TarponMegalops atlanticusseen 11× near here

Black TriggerfishMelichthys nigerseen 10× near here

French AngelfishPomacanthus paruseen 7× near here

Flamingo Tongue SnailCyphoma gibbosumseen 7× near here

Atlantic Sergeant MajorAbudefduf saxatilisseen 7× near here

Rock BeautyHolacanthus tricolorseen 7× near here

Nurse SharkGinglymostoma cirratumseen 7× near here

Indigo HamletHypoplectrus indigoseen 7× near here

Blue ChromisAzurina cyaneaseen 7× near here

Common LionfishPterois volitansseen 6× near here

Yellowtail SnapperOcyurus chrysurusseen 6× near here

Spotfin ButterflyfishChaetodon ocellatusseen 6× near here

Yellowhead WrasseHalichoeres garnotiseen 6× near here

Four-eyed ButterflyfishChaetodon capistratusseen 6× near here

Princess ParrotfishScarus taeniopterusseen 6× near here

Oceanic TriggerfishCanthidermis sufflamenseen 6× near here

Caribbean Reef SharkCarcharhinus pereziiseen 6× near here

Creole WrasseBodianus parraeseen 6× near here

Horse-eye JackCaranx latusseen 5× near here

Planning a trip

8–12 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

17,600km from Singapore — about 24h each way, so two of those days are travel. 2 dive sites within 25km.

When people dive it

Busiest Mar, Dec · almost nobody dives it Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Nov.

From 1,748 logged sightings — when divers are in the water, which is not quite the same as when visibility is best.

Dive Crew is a dive group from Singapore. Members plan trips here, log their dives, and share their photos of each site.

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Moon and tides

Waning gibbous

71% lit · day 20 of the lunar month

Neap tides

Neap tides — the smallest range of the month, so the weakest currents. Easy conditions and usually the clearest water, though a drift site may barely drift.

New 10 Oct Full 26 Oct

Phase computed here, not fetched. This is the spring/neap cycle, which sets how hard the water moves — not a tide table: no free source publishes high and low water for Southeast Asian reefs, and the range peaks a day or two after the moon does, by an amount that varies with the coast. For times on the day, ask the operator.

Getting there

~28h 27m

door to water, each way · 4 legs

FlightBelize City (BZE)~25h 51mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~33 minFor the Blue Hole; the atolls are a boat or a hop from here.Directions →
Ferrythe crossing~1h 33mAt this distance the last stretch is a scheduled crossing rather than a dive boat, so book it before the flight — a missed sailing usually costs a day. Which crossing it is has been worked out from the distance and not from a timetable; ask the operator.
Dive boatLong Caye Aquarium~30 minThen the dive boat out from the island.

📍 Long Caye Aquarium on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Belize City

Times marked ~ are estimated from straight-line distance and will be roughly right at best. The road legs are the ones Google Maps answers properly; it will not plan the ferry or the dive boat at all. A dive site's coordinates put a pin in open water, so the map link drops you on the site, not on a jetty.

Details

Type: yes
Island: Long Caye
Country: Belize
Marks: 17°12.780'N 87°36.456'W
Position: 17.2130, -87.6076

Where it is

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Nearby

Sightings and photographs from iNaturalist contributors, research-grade records within 6km, under Creative Commons licences. Counts are what divers and snorkellers have bothered to log — a common fish with few records is common all the same.