17/09/2026
🏆 Finally Celebrating SEA’s 2025 Tour Guide of the Year: Andres Fletes! 🌊🤿
The recognition may have been a little overdue, but it was certainly well deserved! We finally had the opportunity to formally recognize Andres Fletes as SEA’s 2025 Tour Guide of the Year, presenting him with his certificate and a gift voucher courtesy of Pelican Beach Resort in recognition of his dedication to tourism, marine conservation, and sharing Belize’s underwater world.
Andres began his journey as a tour guide and diver in 2016, eventually turning his passion for the ocean into a career as a dive instructor.
His work extends beyond guiding. Through training with MARFund, Andres developed skills in Coral Reef Emergency Response and is certified to train brigade members. He has also gained valuable coral restoration experience through Fragments of Hope, strengthening his knowledge of reef conservation.
Through Above And Below - By Andres Fletes, Andres also combines his love for the ocean with underwater photography, capturing and sharing the incredible marine life found beneath Belize’s waters.
For Andres, guiding is about more than visiting a destination. It is an opportunity to share Belize’s history, culture, marine life, and conservation story while helping others understand why protecting these places matters.
Congratulations, Andres, on this well-deserved recognition and your continued commitment to Belize’s tourism and marine environment!👏
And we’re not done celebrating! Stay tuned next week for a special video feature highlighting Andres’ journey and the experiences that have shaped him as a guide.🎥🌊
These amazing photos were captured and shared with SEA by Andres Fletes | Above And Below - By Andres Fletes
