Cenotes / Cavern Diving

Your Start in the Overhead Environment
Aquatech is perfectly located for exploring fresh water caverns. If you are certified open water diver, you can tour a cavern with a guide and a group of no more than 4 divers. Wearing your regular open water dive gear, certified divers can explore the cavern within sight of daylight and see the beautiful stalactite and stalagmites decorations up close.

If you are already a certified cavern diver, come dive the beautiful cenotes near Aquatech.

Cavern diving includes:
* guide * transportation to and from dive sites * dive site fees * weights * tanks * students must provide all personal equipment such as: * power fins and booties * mask * wetsuit * open water regulator with pressure gauge and octopus second stage * BCD * depth gauges and watch and/or dive computer(s).

All dive equipment is available for rent from Aquatech.
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Cavern Diving Certifications
All cavern diving courses include:
• Instruction
• One certification (if qualified)
• Transportation to and from dive sites
• Dive site fees

Specialty equipment including:
• Safety and gap/jump reels • Primary reels • Two battery powered lights • Tanks • Weights • students must furnish all personal gear such as: • Power fins and booties • Mask • Wetsuit • Open water regulator with pressure gauge and octopus second stage • BCD • Depth gauges and watch and/or dive computer(s).

All dive equipment is available for rent from Aquatech.

Cavern Diver Course
Description:
Cavern diving is diving the "overhead environment" staying within the sight of natural daylight. This course is very popular and provides the diver an orientation to the specialized needs of the cenotes. Emphasis is placed on dive planning, air management, buoyancy control, using a guidereel and line, emergency procedures, swimming techniques and buddymanship. This is not a cave diving course in any sense but allows the recreational diver to experience the cave entrance, improve general diving skills and can establish an interest to go beyond into cave diving. The course involves six hours of theory including land drills, accident analysis, the environment, "stress" management, and equipment configuration.

Some dive sites used: Cenote Carwash, Cenote PonDeRosa, Cenote Temple of Doom, Cenote Taj Mahal and The Gran Cenote.

Course Length: 2 days, minimum 5 cavern dives/4 hours class time.

Prerequisites:
Advanced open water certification - show proof
Minimum age 16, with signed parental consent for divers under 18

Cave Diver
Certifications Offered From NACD IANTD TDI NSS-CDS NAUI PADI
Course Limitations:
• Cavern penetration limited to staying within sight of daylight
• Maximum 200 feet penetration distance
• No decompression diving
• No restrictions
• Maximum depth - 100 feet
• Minimum visibility - 30 feet
• Minimum starting psi - 2000 psi (136 bar) or 50 cubic feet
• 1/3 air rule on singles, 1/6 on doubles