San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, Belize

Tackle Box Canyons

Tackle Box Canyons is a swim-through and canyon dive on the seaward side of the Belize Barrier Reef off Ambergris Caye, almost directly in front of San Pedro town. The site is named after the historic Tackle Box bar that once stood at the end of the pier opposite. The reef top sits between 12 and 15 metres and is cut by a series of sand-floored canyons and tunnels that wind through the reef structure to the wall edge at around 25 to 30 metres. The canyons are framed by towering coral pillars, deep-water sea fans, sponges and wire corals. Reef life is dense: schools of horse-eye jacks, big mutton snappers, schoolmasters, creole wrasses, midnight parrotfish, spotted morays, southern stingrays and turtles. Caribbean reef sharks pass along the wall edge. The combination of structure, fish and moderate currents makes Tackle Box one of the most popular advanced sites out of San Pedro. Visibility 20 to 30 metres. Open water plus deep training is recommended.