Tonight, Belize is all ready to launch its newest tourism product; it's a sunken ship that's poised to be a marine marvel and quite the adventure for the daring diver. But it's coming at a whopping cost of 3 million dollars, that's according to TASA executive director Valdemar Andrade who today told the Press that while initial investment in this product is indeed costly, the business plan around it is sound.
But rather than just talk numbers the director wanted to show not tell, and this morning he and his team took four journalists out to the still floating Wit Concrete to give us an idea for the scale of the project:
The Wit Concrete will be sunken on September 20th.
TASA's hope is that the revenue garnered from its upscale consumer base will help them to earn the 2 million dollars needed annually to manage The Turneffe Atoll reserve.
We'll be heading out to sea for the sinking as well and we'll keep following the story.
