Cenote Dive
This 3 hour adventure includes entrance fees and transportation to and from the cenote. In addition, one of our experienced divemasters will lead you through this underground waterway. Diving in a cenote is unlike cave diving and requires no certification beyond OpenWater. The reason is that you are never more than 30 feet (50 meters) from an opening. Imagine diving into a lagoon and through a small cavern to rise beneath another lagoon, with sunlight and trees sparkling through the clear blue water.
The Yucatan Peninsula is world renowned for its network of underground caverns. Akumal Dive Center offers daily snorkeling or diving excursions into these fresh underground waterways. Have you booked a diving group to Cozumel? Are you wanting to offer them something different? We would love to take your group to explore these wonders.
1 Day Cenote and Jungle Adventure
Have you booked a diving group to Cozumel? Are you wanting to offer them something different? The Yucatan peninsula is world renowned for its network of underground caverns. We would love to take your group to explore these wonders. This new package is available only to travel agents and wholesalers for their dive groups. It includes:
*Pick up of your groups at the ferry docks in Playa Del Carmen
*2 Cenote dives at two different Cenotes. The dives are guided by certified cavern guides.
*Refreshments will be provided.
*Delivery of your group to the Playa Del Carmen ferry docks.
This is a whole day experience in the jungle. Your group will receive first class and personalized treatment by our friendly staff.
Cost : $140.00 per person (rack rate, fully commissionable). Minimum 3 people.
Gear rental package available for an additional $30.00 (includes BCD, regulator, wetsuit, dive light and snorkeling set. (regular price is $50.00 for 1 day) Prices do not include 10% I.V.A (tax)
For more information please email Avelino Cach , Akumal Dive Center Reservations Coordinator.
dive@akumaldivecenter.com
ABOUT CENOTES
The Yucatan Peninsula is approximately 65,000 years old and was completely covered by ocean. Through several ice ages and the lowering of the ocean water level, the limestone floor was exposed to air and rain. Limestone and rainwater formed carbonic acid, which helped dissolve the region's bedrock, carving out underground rivers and passages.
This underground river system was and still is the main water source for the people of the Yucatan Peninsula. Like all rivers, this water system flows to the ocean, but it makes its way underground. The rising and lowering of the tides, as well as hydrostatic pressure produced by the warm ocean water pushes less dense and colder freshwater to the surface, creating a unique environment of siphons and springs in the cenotes.
Since saltwater and freshwater don't mix, they create a halocline at about 36 feet (12 meters of depth.) During the underwater dry cave formation, calcite structures called speleotherms were created. Groundwater flowing through cracks in the limestone bedrock removed carbonic dioxin, causing calcite to form in the shape of straw like drip tubes, attached to the cave ceiling. These stalactites continued to grow and drip onto the cave floor, forming stalagmites.
The area's abundant limestone allowed Mayan's to build temples and walled cites that flourished from 600 AD to 900 AD. Right beside Akumal, where the Akumal Dive Center is situated, it is easy to recognize the series of cenotes considered to be the best Cavern and Cave diving. Dos Ojos, Taj Maha, Chac Mool, Gran Cenote and Ponderosa are a few of the spectacular cenotes which offer swimming, snorkeling and diving.
Each one displays different and unique characteristics. Diving is made accessible through man made structures that are truly made for every one. A professional Full Cave Diver will accompany you to discover this magical and mysterious underwater world, where lovers of this sport or those just beginning, will be enriched by an unusual and spectacular environment. The best thing about Cenote diving is that it offers a cool, freshwater alternative to ocean diving and a great way to keep diving regardless of ocean conditions.