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Peter Hughes -- Sun Dancer II: "Belize Dancer - great as usual", Dec, 2014, by Ken, ON, CA ( Contributor 15 reports with 15 Helpful votes). Report 8088 has 2 Helpful votes.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
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Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	The good: This was a return trip to the Sun Dancer and it continues to provide great service and relaxed diving. The crew have been on the boat for many years now. They have escalated the "fintastic" service (they don & doff your fins for you) and now also provide wetsuit hangup service after each dive. The op provides 5 dives a day (except on blue hole day, when 4 are available). Standard day is: breakfast, dive, snack, dive, lunch, dive, snack, dive, supper, dive, sleep. The first dive starts at 8am, last dive starts at 7:30pm. This allows lots of surface interval during the day. 2 dives are available friday morning. Each diver gets a dedicated dive deck towel for the week that is looked after by the crew. Jerry was in the galley and provided an excellent array of well prepared food throughout the week. Breakfast is either make it yourself continental (cereals, bagels, fruit, yogurt)or a different "cooked to order" offering each day. Lunch is a self serve buffet with 2 options for the mains along with soup and / or salad. Supper is a 4 course sit down service also with 2 options for the main. They handled dietary restrictions (i saw a bowl of tofu something for one of the picky eaters.) One of the divers had their luggage left behind in Miami. The crew fitted her with gear (at no charge) for 2 days until her bag caught up with the boat. The Radisson hotel continues to offer its services to the divers before and after the trip. Free wifi and pool access. We got a few free beers on Friday afternoon since the waitress realized that the service was way too slow. The New: No more hard liquor supplied by the boat. They had both inexpensive red and white wine as well as Belikin beer on tap included in the price. On Saturday morning they now bunch all divers together (with the aggressor) on a single bus heading to the airport at 8:30ish. Prior trips they would have 2 or 3 different time slots for the airport shuttle. The Bad: The boat was late departing dock at the start of the trip due to suspected bad gas which was causing excessive smoke from the generators and engine. They were unable to completely solve the issue so we sometimes noticed generator exhaust fumes on the dive deck. We had some bad weather which caused the blue hole day to get moved up a day (the aggressor did not make it to the blue hole that week). Viz was also less than what we experienced before. On thursday the weather forced us to start early for turneffe right after lunch which cut us to 4 dives that day. The trip back to turneffe started out rough, so it appears to have been a good call by Captain Eddy to cut & run early. We finished the day with 2 dives on the east side of Turneffe.
Websites	Peter Hughes -- Sun Dancer II
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Many Caribbean, Hawaii, PNG
Closest Airport	Belize city	Getting There	arrived 1 day early via Houston, no issues.
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy	Seas	calm, choppy
Water Temp	79-80°F / 26-27°C	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	40-70 Ft/ 12-21 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	110 foot max depth. No other restrictions. We dove our own profile as a buddy team. our longest dive was 75 minutes. shortest 57 min, average was 66 minutes. A guide was available in water for every dive if you wanted to follow them.
Liveaboard?	yes	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	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
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	Each side of the boat dive deck had a 2 level camera table and a dedicated camera rinse tank. They were very clear about nothing but cameras can go in the camera tanks. 3 level charging station on the dive deck with lots of power bars. The crew were very careful with camera gear. they carried it from the table and handed it down at the start of each dive. it got dunked in rinse tank then placed on table after each dive - nothing was left in the rinse tank. after the first day they knew which camera belonged to each diver.

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Dive Review of Peter Hughes -- Sun Dancer II in Belize

Peter Hughes -- Sun Dancer II: "Belize Dancer - great as usual", Dec, 2014,

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Dive Review of Peter Hughes -- Sun Dancer II in
Belize