Cenote Scuba Diving

The Cenotes (caverns) are the access to a huge network of underground freshwater rivers; Mother Nature's veins keep ancient secrets and provide testimony of past cultures and extinct animals.

 

These underground rivers are considered top-class caverns and cave diving, and the Riviera Maya is the home of a fine cave diving community. Some of its members are world-class divers and instructors. If you are a certified open water diver with a recent dive you are welcome to join a 40-minute orientation on the procedures you need to experience a cavern dive. Training for overhead environment diving is available, enroll in a Cavern Course with one of our instructors. The introduction to overhead environment diving procedures including underwater communication with flashlights, team diving protocols, emergency procedures, buoyancy control, and gas consumption rules.

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PREREQUISITE FOR CENOTE DIVING:

• Minimum certification for regular dives: Open Water Diver

• Certification to dive Angelita or The Pit: Deep Diver Specialty or Advanced Open Water with more than 30 logged dives.

• Proof of at least one open water dive within the past 30 days.

• Before participating in a guided cenote dive, do at least one shallow open water dive prior to a cenote dive. This gives you the opportunity to familiarize yourself with the equipment and to work on your buoyancy control.

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