Surface intervals are usually necessary evils. Repetitive diving demands some decompression time on the boat between dives to allow body tissue to off-gas accumulated nitrogen. It’s like paying a debt ...

Exploring Barton Creek Cave in Cayo District, Belize by canoe. Guides offer trips into the first kilometer of this cave, where ledges hold Mayan pottery shards and human remains dating from 200 to 900 ...

Question: I remember reading once in the Destinations section of Outside about scuba diving on a remote caye in Belize. While Belize has become a very popular dive spot, as I recall this seemed to be ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Dina Mishev, Special to The Washington Post CAYO DISTRICT, BELIZE — “Fishing” for a tarantula — using a twig to tease it out of the hole in the ground it ...

AMBERGRIS CAYE, Belize — The swarm of sharks seemed to be as curious about us as we were about them. Twenty meters deep at the Tackle Box, a dive site off Ambergris Caye, dozens of nurse sharks of all ...

The Belize Tourism Board introduces Beyond Blue: Belize’s Great Dive for Sustainability, Belize’s first national dive dedicated to marine conservation and sustainable tourism. Fifty divers can ...

Gisselle is a Belize native who writes primarily about Belize travel. Her work as appeared in numerous travel publications. Facing the southern edge of Ambergris Caye about 4 miles from shore, Hol ...

“Fishing” for a tarantula — using a twig to tease it out of the hole in the ground it calls home — is cool by me, at least after I pull the thick sleeve of my rain jacket over my hand. But I draw the ...