Dive Review of Ramon's Village Resort in
Belize/Ambergris Caye

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Ramon's Village Resort: "Bleaching is wide spread", Dec, 2023, by Leslie Russum, CO, US ( Reviewer 6 reports with 9 Helpful votes). Report 12847.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	I was in Belize in Jan 2023 and this summer has been devastating to the corals. There is so much bleaching which has also reduced the other marine life. We rarely saw any lobsters or crabs and eels only on the night dive. No shrimps and only 1 lettuce sea slug. It was very sad. The typical fish still seem to be doing well (nurse and reef sharks, parrotfish, rays, damselfish, angelfish, chromis, grouper, etc). We saw very few puffers of any kind (in Jan the sharpnose puffer must have been breeding because there were thousands!). The hard corals have been hit hard - the lettuce corals were 100% bleached. The brain corals are starting to bleach as are the cactus corals (used to be deep red, now light pink) Staghorn seems to be the last hard coral to suffer but we did see some starting to bleach. The DMs said that all the pillar coral has died off in the past 3 years. Rick continues to run an excellent operation and the dive staff is still great. It is becoming obvious that since the death of the founder, the current owner is not investing in the operation (both resort and dive operation). The nitrox is not long done on site so Ramon's has to purchase it meaning they may run out. They are trying to convince the owner to repair or replace the nitrox system. On the resort side, you can see small things that are not being repaired (our safe was broken, the gate latch was broken on their sister property, the breaker kept tripping in our room). The staff is still trying very hard and have a good attitude but there are some leadership issues (the property manager decided to host a lunch for his staff of 15 at the same dive as our boat returned for a noon surface interval. This was poor planning so the kitchen was backed up and the divers waiting 40+ min to get food). San Pedro has gotten crazy busy with all the cart and large construction truck traffic -- hopefully this will improve as some of the projects complete. The DMs believe if the water temps improve in a few months there is hope for the coral to recover.
Websites	Ramon's Village Resort
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Cook Islands, Galapagos, Guadeloupe, Tortola, Cozumel, Belize, Roatan, Dominica, Kona, Cuba
Closest Airport	BZE	Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	choppy, surge
Water Temp	82-83°F / 28-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	30-60 Ft/ 9-18 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	DM sent people up when at 1/3 tank and let the others keep diving with him until they were at 1/3 tank. We didn't all have to surface at the same time.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	Boats only have a bucket but you return to shore between all dives and can tend to your camera in a controlled environment.

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Dive Review of Ramon's Village Resort in Belize/Ambergris Caye

Ramon's Village Resort: "Bleaching is wide spread", Dec, 2023,

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Dive Review of Ramon's Village Resort in
Belize/Ambergris Caye