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DIVING OVERVIEW

Diving along the Riviera Maya in the state of Quintana Roo in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico is getting more popular each day!

The coastal waters of the Riviera Maya are home to the second longest coral reef in the world and the longest in the Western Hemisphere, the Mesoamerican Reef, which stretches nearly 700 km/450 miles from Cancun south to the Honduran Bay Islands. Playa del Carmen, Puerto Aventuras, and Akumal are the most known towns along the Riviera Maya where you can find coral reefs right in front them. In addition, every year, between the end of November until the beginning of March, a population of pregnant female bull sharks congregates in the shallow waters along the coast of Playa Del Carmen before giving birth in deeper waters, which has brought Playa del Carmen a worldwide reputation for its bull shark dives.

The most mesmerizing diving in the Riviera Maya, however, is the fantastic world of cavern and cave diving in the mystical and sacred waters of the Mayan cenotes which offer certified recreational divers the opportunity to explore something very exceptional.

Cenotes, which are only found in this part of the world, have made Riviera Maya's unique underground water system a diver’s Mecca for cavern and cave diving since 1987 when exploration of Cenotes Dos Ojos started.

In the jungles nearby Tulum lie the two longest underwater cave systems (Sac Aktun 353 km and Ox Bel Ha 270 km) known on earth with spectacular formations and an amazingly clarity of the water.

Diving in a cenote is an unforgettable experience… pristine water that allows incredible visibility of more than 300 ft (100 m), flooded gigantic halls, rooms, and tunnels "decorated" with stalactites, stalagmite, columns and helectites (legacy of the ice age), in addition to archaeological remains, ancient paints, astonishing light beams, refraction effects, hydrogene sulfide clouds, and haloclines (where the fresh and the salt water meet).

Most of the caverns are accessible for divers without previous experience in an overhead environment. And we offer deeper and more challenging dives to divers with more advanced training or experience.

Further, with more than 500 miles (800 km) of guide lines, the area offers an unlimited number of cave dives for divers with technical certification of Full Cave.

Click here to find out more about cavern diving or cave diving.

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CAVERN DIVING
CAVE DIVING
sidemount diving
private diving
 
Diving with BULL SHARKS
Playa del Carmen
Seasonal: December - March
 
 

"A MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE"

 

Become part of our Initiative while visiting Quintana Roo

IT'S SIMPLE
Make a Donation and we give you a refillable bottle and access to FREE water in exchange!

In 2018 about 13.7 million visitors were recorded in QRoo who used a minimum of 75,000 plastic bottles per day or more than 27.4 million plastic bottlesl per year (assuming that each visitor drank ONLY two bottles of water per day)!

Unfortunately, recycling in this area is not yet considered as a priority and, as a result, at least a third (or more) have ended up somewhere in landfills, our ocean, cenotes, beaches, jungle, and streets! This is why the local community of business owners and individuals in QRoo have launched the “A Message in a Bottle”  Initiative with the common goal to help reduce the quantity of plastic bottle trash in this area and worldwide, and to raise awareness about protecting our ecosystems!


If we want to relieve our Mother Nature of trash it is imperative that we start changing our habits of using disposable plastic water bottles and start filling refillable bottles instead. 


 


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