OUR BEST CENOTE DIVES!

The following cenotes represent the most popular or "best" cavern dives to experience in the New Frontier! It is always best to go with a qualified and experienced GUIDE who can take you directly to the cenote, present a safe and organized dive plan and lead you safely through the cavern area. Our GUIDES are Full Cave certified along with being Scuba Instructors or Cave Diving Instructors. They know the cenotes extremely well and "really care" that your dive is safe and enjoyable. We specialize in cavern and cave diving. It is our knowledge and experience that allows AQUATECH/VILLAS DEROSA to stay way ahead of all others who offer cenote diving. Try us, we really want to give you the best opportunity to see this incredible and very beautiful environment.

CENOTES DOS OJOS (meaning two eyes in spanish)

Maximum depth: 26 feet. Visibility: 300 feet+
Water Temperature: 77 degrees F. Freshwater completely.
Access: Located on the Ejido Jacinto Pat property. Divesite fee is $10.00. 125 meter hike from parking area to the water.
Considered the "best" of all the cenotes. These two giant collapses offer a huge passageway traversing 250 feet from Dos Ojos East to Dos Ojos West. Highly decorated with immense columns, stalactites and stalagmites. We offer two different dives within these two cenotes. The BAT CAVERN is a dreamland of it's own. Superb snorkeling. A underwater photographer's paradise. First divers to explore it were Jim Coke and Johanna DeGroot in 1986.

CENOTE PonDEROSA.

Maximum depth: 55 feet. Average: 27 feet. Visibility: 300 feet+
Water Temperature: 77 degrees F - Freshwater. 79 degrees F - Saltwater.
Access: Very easy. Steps leads down to cement platform from parking area. This cavern dive is a 100 meter traverse from the Cenote PonDeRosa to the Cenote Corral. This passageway is 15 - 20 feet from floor to ceiling and eighty feet wide. Some speleothem decorations, a variety of five different freshwater tropical fish and an excellent display of geological and fossilized history. Located on private property with "sign-in" required. Excellent snorkeling. First divers to explore this cenote were Tony and Nancy DeRosa and Steve Gerrard during June, 1990.

CENOTE TAJ MAHAL.

Maximum depth: 48 feet. Average: 23 feet. Visibility: 300 feet+.
Water Temperature: 77 degrees F. 79 degrees F.
Access: Very easy. Cement walkway and platform from parking area to the water. The dive involves a 200 foot traverse from the Cenote Taj Mahal to the Cenote Sugarbowl including a very beautiful room with huge airspace involving three holes allowing beams of daylight to penetrate the cavern area. This room is called the "Points of Light". The second cavern area beyond Cenote Sugarbowl leads past a third small opening. Many fossils in the limestone. Awesome exit views. Located on private property requiring "sign-in" with Mayan owners. First explored by Nancy Derosa, Wayne Nefzger, Tony DeRosa and Steve Gerrard during spring of 1995.

CENOTE CARWASH.

Maximum depth: 52 feet. Average: 29 feet. Visibility: 300 feet +.
Water Temperature: 77 degrees F. Completely freshwater.
Access: Very easy with wooden platform and steps. First dived during the early 1980's, this was the "original" cenote dive for the Akumal - Tulum area. Very wide entrance area over 150 feet with an assortment of tree limbs and branches. This "cavern zone" tapers to a shallower loft area turning into a cave dive. Warning signs installed to stop divers from going beyond unless cave certified. Spectacular exit view. During the warmer months a 5 foot layer of algae exists at the water surface. No permanent guidelines thus requiring a reel and line. Good snorkeling during winter months. Property owned by the Ejido Tulum with a nominal divesite fee charged.

THE GRAN CENOTE.

Maximum depth: 24 feet. Average: 18 feet. Visibility: 400 feet+.
Water Temperature: 77 degrees F. Completely Freshwater.
Access: 50 meter walk requiring climb down wooden ladder and wooden boardwalk. Platform for easy entry into water.
Considered the prettiest of all the cenote dives with exception to the "Bat" cavern at Cenote Dos Ojos. Highly decorated with speleothems and columns. Water clarity exceptional. Very sensitive environmentally. A snorkeler's paradise! Located on "private property" with a nominal divesite fee charged. First explored by Jim Coke, Johanna DeGroot and Stephen DeCarlo during November, 1988.

CENOTE TEMPLE of DOOM.

Maximum depth: 58 feet. Average 38 feet. Visibility: 150 feet +.
Access: Requires 120 meter hike through jungle on a rocky path. "Giant stride" entry eight feet to the water or the use of a galvanized pipe ladder for entry/exit.
This cenote is a geologically unique 25 foot diameter hole with a huge undercut ledge. A huge debris mound with all sides leading down to the saltwater level at 33 feet. Along the shallow freshwater depth of twenty feet or less are located speleothems. A 360 degree permanent guideline is installed allowing divers to safely explore the entire cenote within "natural daylight". Several cave passageways lead off from the cavern zone. Extreme care should be exercised not to wander into the cave system. Great place to go swimming and cool off. Private property but no divesite fee charged. First explored by Mike Madden an Denny Atkinson during July, 1986.

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