Scuba in Mayan Jungle Cenotes

[Rusty Heap]

These cenote dives are mentally mind blowing and quite the adrenaline rush.

It's a whole 'nother world down there diving in a Cenote freshwater cave in the million year old dark underworld of the Mayan Jungle in this secret cave.

I swore to secrecy it's location, I had to earn my right to dive this site. I've dove about 9 of the sites in the Mayan Akumel / Tulum area.

This one is stellar stunning in person with chandeliers of 10-15 million year old stone formations, once dry caves, but now filled with unground fresh water river system that goes on for miles and miles.



Enjoy the short 4 minute other-worldly dive video, I'll take to where 99% percent of the general public never will go see in person:






I love my SOLA dive lights, (twin 600 lumens) I now have two of their 2000 lumens lights coming later this week for Fiji next spring.

Geezus, I'm going from 1200 total lumens to 4000...........that's going to be nuclear underwater welding BRIGHT.

[Amail]

That is seriously cool! Even though it's in the jungle I bet the water's pretty cold, huh?

[Don Plumley]

I've snorkeled in the Tulum Cenotes. Very beautiful. You divers have big brass ones, I could never do that.

I got distracted and ran up against the top of one cave. Good thing the second guide hauled me back into the middle before I started to freak out more.

We turned off all the lights in another cave. Man on man, that is dark.

[KevinTodd]

We have a place in Puerto Aventuras and love to try to find new cenotes on each visit. We've gone as far as Valadollid and Punta Allen and some have been amazing while others have been underwhelming. Either way it's a blast and we don't think we'll ever run out of new cenotes to explore.

We were even married there many years ago by a Mayan Shaman in Pac Chen--the other side of Coba.

One of our all-time faves is between Pa Amul and Akumal and it is called Cenote Azul--no tremendous SCUBA depths there, but absolutely amazing Cyclid activity.

Here's to cenote adventures---we love them.

[masraum]

I've seen lots of videos on stuff like Nat Geo or Discovery channel. I think those things are really amazing. You're lucky folks to have been in them.

[look 171]

The ones we been into were within a couple of hours near Cancun as well but it was snookering not scuba. Our guide took us to what looked like a little opening from a pool of dirty water from the surface.As soon as we swam through the hole, the depth was 20-30' of crystal clear water. We basically swam through a tunnel into a bigger tunnel. The guides were the only ones with the flash lights, but as we stop to catch our breath, he warned us that the light will be off for a few. Like Don said, blackness. Its something I had never experience. A real freaky feeling. WE ended up climbing out of a big hole from the ground way on the side of the hill. We spent a good two to three hours in there. There are little fishes and shrimps in that water. How do they see or eat?

Thinking about it years later, what happens if the guide takes the wrong turn?

That darkness is scary. Remember a couple of years back there was a ship wreck survivor and days later, the diver found this man alive with his body submerge in water in some parts of the ship breathing from a trapped air pocket. I can't survive through no more then 5 minutes of that. This man did it for days.