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Dave & Jan's Diving Diary Yucatan, Mexico. 1999 This is WWW.SEATREKER.COM Updated 06/10/06 |
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| Australia, Barrier Reef etc | This was our first trip to Mexico and we were both looking forward to it. We were staying at the hotel Viva Azteka in Playa Del Carmen, some 60 - 70 miles south of Cancun. The Yucatan is close to the border with Belize and Guatamala in southern Mexico. We had come here to dive the world famous "Senoté" on the mainland and the reefs on Cozumel. The hotel was very good, nice pool with jaquuzi on the beach, excellent restaurant and food. The hotel was a ten minute walk from the village of Playa Del Carmen. The ferry to Cozumel goes from here and takes about 45 minutes. |
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We booked our diving with "Deco Stop" in Playa, a small outfit but one that looked after us. They arranged a cave diving guide for us and we arranged to meet "Harvey" our guide the next day. He turned up as arranged bright and early, we loaded our gear onto his truck and set off down the highway and then into the jungle.
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Janet and Harvey getting gear ready. |
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| Entrance to cave system |
Our first dive in the caves with the video camera and i don't fit the front dome port correctly, needless to say this means NO pictures at all from inside the caves, (or from Cozumel) plus the camera is total'ed. |
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| Our transport at Dos Ojos.......... | |||
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We were not sure
what to expect, but Harvey gave us a briefing and we got ready to get
in, Harvey led the way (as you would expect) and we tagged on behind, i
can remember the visibility down there as if it were yesterday, it was
like diving in Gin, once into the cave system it was absolutely pitch
black if you switched off the the torch, we followed Harvey through the
system. I only had one moment of apprehension, and that was when we went
through a halocline, that is when salt water meets and mixes with fresh
water |
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