Yeah belize can def be deadly if you succomb to the stupidity of being narced and continue following that wall 2300 feet down to the ocean floor. Some people do!
Some chick jumped off a boat over what she thought was a 40ft deep reef. Her light never turned on (she didn't check, idiot) and she didn't have a backup (idiot again)
So I jump in and see this dim glostick at about 90 feet in pitch black water... nothing else is visible, not the ground or surface of the water.. I start heading to this glostick, mind you we are diving nitrox, an oxygen enriched gas mixture that becomes deadly to breathe at 140ft realisticly. They tell you not to exceed 120ft. I found this chick at 130, sinking like a rock, with no light, headed for a 2,000 foot bottom, about to succoomb to oxygen posioning at any minute.
I grabbed that bitch, grabbed her buoyancy compensator, filled her BC with a shot of air to keep us from sinking.. brought us up to 90 ft and prepped her to ascend by herself.
Thankfully I ripped off my backup light (ALWAY CARRY IT), gave it to her, illuminated her depth gauge (she probably shit herself) and told her to abort the dive. She did LOL and I almost did too because quite frankly it scared me.
After the dive she said she thought she jumped over the shallow reef. When her light didn't turn on she said she thought she would sink until her fins touched the coral and she could get something working. What a BAD idea
I think that was her last night dive
she was married on a trip with her husband and they both came to thank me quite explicitly.
Thought a few of you guys would enjoy that story