Scuba diving in Dos Ojos Cenote on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico

Carmen and Dave from http://www.double-barrelledtravel.com go scuba diving in Dos Ojos Cenote, half an hour north of Tulum on the Yucatan Peninsula.
See what it's like to dive in the unique cavern system of this part of Mexico.

Video script:

Carmen: Ah, the ocean. A beautiful spot to dive. But that’s not where we’ll be diving today.

Nope, we’re going to be diving with Mexidivers and they’re taking us to a cenote called Dos Ojos, about half an hour north of Tulum on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.

Carlos Solis, Owner of Mexidivers: Dos Ojos is actually a wonderfully cenote. It’s located north of Tulum. It’s about a half hour drive, including 5km into the jungle.

That’s what makes it a little more interesting because you’re driving into the jungle so you have a chance to see flora and fauna.

Then once you get to the cenote, you may have to walk for about five minutes with all your dive gear. You take the stairs to go down and there’s a giant sinkhole in the ground. It’s like a giant crystal clear swimming pool.

Dave: We’re going to go scuba diving. We’ve just walked through the jungle in all of our scuba gear. It’s pretty hot, and pretty difficult.

Carmen: I’m looking forward to it – I’m a little bit nervous – but this is going to be totally badass. Let’s go!

Carlos: So you follow the guideline as you go in then all the adventure under the water begins. Because the daylight is shining into the cave. So you are in the open area and the daylight is shining. So you see that the water with the daylight, the colours and the crystal clear of the water – it’s really incredible.

And it probably looks like a ballroom. That’s the thing that comes to mind when I go there. I look up, and it looks like a huge ballroom, perfectly decorated. And you want to go in, you want to go in and see what’s there.

So you follow your guide and he takes you through all of these passages and you just think ‘wow’. The Yucatan Peninsula was sitting under the ocean – that’s right. Millions of years ago.

Carmen: We surfaced within a cave. Bats flittered above us. Our guide explained how the cave had been formed over millions of years by the slow drip, drip, drip of water, forming stalagmites and stalactites.

Carlos: We currently have about 10,000 cenotes in the Yucatan Peninsula. And that’s the main source of fresh water. We drink that. So it’s a lot to think about. We need to remember that Mother Nature is perfect and we depend on Mother Nature. We need to create that idea that we have to save the nature.

It’s incredible.

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