By Luis Antonio Velasco
PADI MSDT 230707
TDI 516712
1st Dive:
Dive Site : Cenote Zapote ( Hell Bells)
Max Depth : 100 feet/ 30 meters
Bottom Time : 35 minutes.
The day started with a huuuge rain over Playa del Carmen and Puerto Morelos but a little bit after and for our surprise the highway was totally dry on the way to Cenote Zapote. After the briefing and dive gear set up we head towards the entrace to start our surface safety checks. All good ! and went down on this kind of wine´s bottle neck. At approximately 80 feet / 24 meters, our ceiling started with some of the amazing formations known as Biothems, and as we progressed depper inside the ceiling huuge structures like bells started to show, some of them like the size of a car. The only underwater formations on these environments that continue to grow due to the prehistoric bacteria that live inside of them. Visibility was great although we had rain before, so we did a complete turn around the gallery and observe the dense Hydrogen Sulfide cloud below us, as our customers began to reach their thirds on their gas supply and also the safe margin of the no decompression limits at that depth, we began our ascent making some deep stops and enyoing some of the views on our way up. Rain started to fall upon us while we where protected uderwater while we completed our final safety stop.
2nd Dive
Dive Site: Cenote Maravilla.
Max Depth : 100 feet/ 30 meters.
Bottom Time : 35 minutes
So it was curious that while we were preparing our tanks and stuff on Zapote´s parking lot and full dressed with our wetsuits we had literally a shower rain over us. Even it cleaned my truck from the dirt of the road =D. We were concerned about the sunlight in our next dive spot as usually in Maravilla from 12 o clock noon a beautiful laser gets inside the dive. So we planned for a nice surface interval of about 1 hour and 30 minutes while we were driving to our next location. We went inside, check stuff with Don Jose, the guy that takes care of the place, and still we wait for the clouds to move a little bit away from the sky. Ar around 1.30 pm clouds were still there so we decided to begin the dive. Surface was a little bit green so we were prepared for a low visibility dive more or less. But we were wrong...=D. As we started to go down, at around 40 feet down visibility cleared out and we could see the white walls of Maravilla, though not laser we went straight to the Hidrogen Sulfide cloud we played in and out taking some nice pictures, but only, only until them, booom, a bigg and beautiful ray of ligth started to appeared, iluminating everything and making the dive even more majestic that it was already. Actually the view was different from other days making it more turquoise color due to the surface that day than the tipycally deep blue color on a normal day. So the laser started to come and go, as clouds were moving while we were diving and making some swimming on the way up to our deep stops. Finally the laser stabilized and could merge with it while we were taking pictures and opening our arms like flying into the light =D . Awesome dive. We surfaced after our safety stop and for our surprise the sky was totally blue, not clouds or any sign of bad weather. That´s such our Caribbean Weather.
written by.
Luis Antonio Velasco
Mandala Divers and Tours.
PADI MSDT #230707
SDI/TDI Instructor #43504
TDI Full Cave Diver #516712
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