Giant Cave exploration with Belize Diving Services

One main history on Caye Caulker is its cave system which is located under our houses. There have been many stories with this cave starting with 2 persons dying in there up to how far the cave system goes and where it connects among other stories. The entrance of the cave system is located on the west side of the island called by some Tarpon View where tarpons have their home. I was told by some one that Belize Diving Services was exploring the cave beneath us and mentioned how far they got. I, as a diver was interested but would be too chicken to even try such a dive.

Belize Diving Services has been exploring the cave beneath the island and have done about 15 exploration dives and surveying about 3000 feet of old guideline and cleaning some old existing line traps. The team for this exploration consists of Chip Petersen owner of Belize Diving Services, Marty O'Farrell who has had over 25 years of diving experience and also lives in Belize, Robbie Schmittner of Tulum Mexico, Henning Lucht who is a German Cave Explorer, Alexandra and Thorsten Kampe, both Exploration Divers. They had also contacted the founder of Belize Diving Services, Paul Heinerth who was the first to dive in the Giant Cave in 1979.

The idea behind this exploration is to clean up the work which past divers have done before proceeding into the mapping process so they can conduct scientific research so as to make the cave safer for future explorations to come. Keep in mind that the ones who die while diving in caves are the more competent divers such as instructors and those with experiences in the diving world. You do need to have a great deal of cave diving experience to be able to dive in the Giant Cave.

As this project is being underway, the team asks to try and help keep people out of the cave area as it can disrupt the project. Anyone interested in the exploration or would like to know more about the Giant Cave can contact Belize Diving Services.

Please note that no tours are being done in the cave.

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