The Dudes are back from their recent expedition to the Yucatan! Our camera crapped out so we have no new pix from this trip. But we did dive a newly discovered cenote. The cenote was known to local ranchers for many years but was inaccessible except by footpath deep into the jungle. A new road changed that and in April 1995 a group of cavers dove there for the first time. The Dudes were there in Jun 1995.

This is our report:

This place is cool. There is a large cavern part, for openwater divers, (Please, openwater divers stay in the cavern zone and go only with a quailfied, cave certified, divemaster), which includes two other nearby cenotes and enormous air dome filled with hundreds of bats. The dome is highly decorated with geological formations and has three small holes in the cieling. Shafts of sunlight penetrate the water to produce a spectacular display. Upstream and far from the cavern zone the cave gets big. There are these rooms with 65ft cielings and your light just kind of fades into the darkness cause it can't reach the far wall, if any, of the chamber. All around are strewn boulders the size of city buses. And there is flow! This is an underground river. Words can not describe the experience of diving in such an awesome underground conduit. I will try. It's scary! You get this feeling like the cave is big enough to swallow you up. You check your air and decide to get out before it really does.