Lost Drone Sailing to the Great Blue Hole of Belize | Episode 45
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Warren and Erica: The Colorado duo who traded corporate life for a 30,000 NM Pacific odyssey, currently navigating the remote Yasawa Islands of Fiji aboard their Helia 44.
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While Sailing to the Blue Hole of Belize we lost our drone and had a few dramas trying to sailing along the way.
We became really indecisive of where to head to next after sailing the cayes of Belize, but before deciding what our next moves were we knew there was one thing that we couldn’t miss.
The Great Blue Hole is a giant marine sinkhole off the coast of Belize. It lies near the center of Lighthouse Reef, a small atoll 70 km from the mainland and Belize City. The hole is circular in shape, 318 m across and 124 m deep. So needless to say, we wanted to sail over the second largest hole in the ocean floor.
We woke early one morning to make our way out of the intense barrier reef to the outlying atoll and unfortunately ran aground. Twice. Trying to find the best exit strategy we were growing more annoyed with the lack of accurate charts to navigate us out of the labyrinth of coral heads and shallow sand bars we finally made use of our drone.
The drone became our eyes in the skies, looking down and ahead of where we were going, spotting the shallow bits and narrow breaks in the coral to finally make way to the Blue Hole. It has now become one of our most favorite tools to navigate when all else fails.
But, just 30 minutes before reaching the Blue Hole the drone fell into the water and this was the time that we desperately needed it, not only to see what’s ahead but also get the view from above.
Surprisingly, what happens next will stun you. WE found the drone! In this infinite ocean, we found the drone and were able to recovery it because of the incredibly accurate GPS locator on the DJI Mavic Pro series. Sadly, the drone was dead, but because of our quick rescue response we were able to save all the footage from the last month!
AND… Warren has an old beat up spare on board so we were able to fly high above the Blue Hole and float Evolias over the incredible landmark.
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Lost Drone Sailing to the Great Blue Hole of Belize | Episode 45 Locations
- Blue Hole National Monument (17.3160476,-87.5351438)
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