Dive Review of Playa Blanca/Gaz Cooper/Playa Blanca Beach Resort in
Belize/Ambergris Caye

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Playa Blanca/Gaz Cooper/Playa Blanca Beach Resort, Apr, 2005, by Bruce Wallace, IN, USA . Report 1996.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$	N/A
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	Playa Blanca Resort is 5.5K from town (San Pedro) - water taxi is only way to town. Buy groceries when you arrive with resort pickup (Andy or Oscar). All rooms are suites with full kitchen. Resort has kitchen and 3 meals each day (inclusive available, but expensive). Several great restaurants within 5 minute walk from resort. But we came here to dive and that's what it is all about in Belize. This was our 2nd 8day/7 night trip to Ambergris and Playa Blanca/Gaz Cooper. It was everything the first one was, but better. The barrier reef just off-shore from the resort is a 5 minute boat ride to the best diving in the Caribbean. Want sharks? They are all over the place. Want rays? Mantas and southerns are everywhere. Name the pelagic or other large fish, especially very friendly grouper, and you can swim with them all every dive. Reef fish abound in every imaginable color and size. Special photos and video of juvenile spotted drums was worth the whole trip. Wife made friends with a very tame nurse shark who "played" with her for over 30 minutes - shark loved having her tummy rubbed with hand fulls of sand. Shark Ray Alley is to be dived once in everyone's life for pure excitement and joy of playing with these wonderful creatures. Gaz Cooper runs the best small operator dive operation. Andy, Oscar and the rest of the staff is excellent, very professional and caring for each guest as through they were family. If you want casinos and night life, Ambergris/Playa Blanca is not your place. If you want to lay in a hammock and see the stars, relax, read, and dive, dive, dive - then Playa Blance is your resort and Gaz Cooper's is your dive operator.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Cancun, Cayman, Cuba, Florida, Greece, Guadeloupe, Saba, St. Barths, St. Maarten, Turkey, USVI
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy	Seas	choppy
Water Temp	81-84°F / 27-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	80-120 Ft/ 24-37 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Stay with your buddy and back on board with 500 psi
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	1 or 2
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	Typical separate tub for "Cameras Only". No shore facilities for film or digital. This is an UWP "heaven" - it's all there for the taking!

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Dive Review of Playa Blanca/Gaz Cooper/Playa Blanca Beach Resort in Belize/Ambergris Caye

Playa Blanca/Gaz Cooper/Playa Blanca Beach Resort, Apr, 2005,

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Dive Review of Playa Blanca/Gaz Cooper/Playa Blanca Beach Resort in
Belize/Ambergris Caye