Cenote Angelita
A circular cenote dropping to 60 m, with a hydrogen sulfide cloud at 30 m that looks like a cloud with trunks and branches reaching through it.
- Experienced
- Cenote
Experienced≤40 m
The Pit (El Pit)
Dive site in Riviera Maya & Cenotes, Mexico
Sun beams pierce the shaft as you sink through a shallow halocline to a hydrogen sulfide cloud at 30 m with tree branches protruding.
- Usual dive
- 40 m
- Deepest point
- 40 m
- Level
- Experienced
- Best months
- Nov–Apr
- Current
- Mild
Photo: Serge Melki from Indianapolis, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The story
The Pit holds the deepest known cave passage in Quintana Roo, at 119.1 meters. Cave explorers discovered it in 1996 after swimming all the way from the Dos Ojos main entrance, some 1,500 meters away.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The dive
A cenote and cavern dive.
Who it's for
Experienced≤40 mSource: mares.com
Recommended minimum: Experienced (Deep Specialty, N3).
- DepthThe usual dive goes deeper than lower certifications allow.
- OverheadPart of the dive is under a ceiling, without a direct way up.
Conditions
- Dive type
- Cenote, Cavern
- Current
- Mild
- Estimated
- Environment
- Cavern (daylight visible)
- Water
- Fresh water
Season in Riviera Maya & Cenotes
- J
- F
- M
- A
- M
- J
- J
- A
- S
- O
- N
- D
- Best
- Good
- Possible
- Closed
- Not documented yet
Best months: Nov–Apr.
Source: bluewaterdivetravel.comWhere is the Riviera Maya & Cenotes?
The point shows the Riviera Maya & Cenotes area, not the exact dive site.
More dives in Riviera Maya & Cenotes
Cenote Calavera (Temple of Doom)
Jump in through a round hole in the rock, circle a central sediment hill and move through three different halocline layers.
- Advanced
- Cenote
Casa Cenote
An open-overhead dive along a winding mangrove-lined river for about 228 m, with platys, guppies and mollies among the roots.
- Open Water
- Cenote
- Crocodiles
Cenote Chac Mool
Large rooms with a halocline, an air dome and what Pro Dive calls the largest underwater stalactite in the world; laser-like light on sunny days.
- Advanced
- Cenote
Cenote Dos Ojos
Two cavern routes, the Barbie line and the Batcave, where you surface in an air dome filled with bats.
- Advanced
- Cenote
- Turtles
Gran Cenote
Part of the Sac Aktun system near Tulum: white walls, crystal clear water and highly decorated passages to a max of 10 m.
- Technical
- Cenote
- Turtles
About this page
Values marked “Estimated” come from our original catalogue and are being checked against published sources one by one. Sourced values link to where they come from. Conditions change with the season, the weather and the tide: confirm with a local dive centre before you dive.
Photo credits
- Cenote Angelita dive site, Riviera Maya Cenotes, Offthebeatonpath, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Cenote Calavera dive site, Riviera Maya Cenotes, Offthebeatonpath, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Casa Cenote dive site, Riviera Maya Cenotes, dronepicr, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Cenote Chac Mool dive site, Riviera Maya Cenotes, Waielbi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Dos Ojos Cenote dive site, Riviera Maya, Biomanu58, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Gran Cenote dive site, Riviera Maya Cenotes, Ken Thomas, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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