As a followup to our trip report, http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/texas-swamp-divers/241665-cave-training-cozumel.html, you may now see a 14 minute video of our last dive here: Jungle Cenote
K-valve & I promised to keep the name and location of this cenote secret so I just titled the video, Jungle Cenote, because we had to hike through quite a bit of the thick green vegetation without a trail to get to the entrance. Once inside we found the cave to be MUCH DARKER than other systems. This is a result of several factors including tanic stained walls and tons of silt which has been undisturbed for hundreds, maybe thousands of years. All that black matter made shooting video difficult, especially with no special equipment or white limestone walls for light to reflect off.
I've pieced together as much footage as possible from our last dive, in the order I filmed it, to try and share the experience of a single cave dive and if you pay attention, you'll notice the line arrows change direction once we turn the dive and are heading out of the cave. There are two alternate openings we pass under on the dive as well as ancient pottery, charred rock/wood and bones. It's important to protect these artifacts, thus the request for location secrecy.
Hope you enjoy the video, Jungle Cenote.
-Zinc
K-valve & I promised to keep the name and location of this cenote secret so I just titled the video, Jungle Cenote, because we had to hike through quite a bit of the thick green vegetation without a trail to get to the entrance. Once inside we found the cave to be MUCH DARKER than other systems. This is a result of several factors including tanic stained walls and tons of silt which has been undisturbed for hundreds, maybe thousands of years. All that black matter made shooting video difficult, especially with no special equipment or white limestone walls for light to reflect off.
I've pieced together as much footage as possible from our last dive, in the order I filmed it, to try and share the experience of a single cave dive and if you pay attention, you'll notice the line arrows change direction once we turn the dive and are heading out of the cave. There are two alternate openings we pass under on the dive as well as ancient pottery, charred rock/wood and bones. It's important to protect these artifacts, thus the request for location secrecy.
Hope you enjoy the video, Jungle Cenote.
-Zinc