Coz and Cenotes: Advice please!

[DandyDon]

Mine would be Mateo at Blue Angel. I don't know Dennis but I have dived Dos Ojos with Mateo, and he is great. He is an extremely experienced cave diver; he worked on the National Geographic project that mapped the caves under and around Tulum.

The same fellow I'm referrencing as Matt...?

 

[Harro10]

Matt (Mateo) Moran does the day trip cenote dives for Blue Angel.
Blue Angel has to have enough divers interested to make it worth while to send him over to the cenotes. I forget if the magic is three or four.

 

[DandyDon]

The magic number may vary. It's a minimum of 2 or 3, depending on whom & when you ask. Matt said 2, but since he runs that himself now - it could change. His maximum is 4.

 

[Harro10]

DandyDon- Here is some info on the Angelita cenote for your next trip:
http://www.cenoteangelita.com/cenote_info.htm

www.awoosh.com/Mexico Cavern Diving/Gallery Pages/Angelita/Angelita Cavern Gallery.htm

It is a long trip from Cozumel, however. I did that one with an instructor named Kate O'Brian while I was staying in Akumal.

 

[DandyDon]

DandyDon- Here is some info on the Angelita cenote for your next trip:
http://www.cenoteangelita.com/cenote_info.htm

It is a long trip from Cozumel, however. I did that one with an instructor named Kate O'Brian while I was staying in Akumal.

Interesting. Sounds a little like New Mexico's Blue Hole, but twice as deep with saltwater in the lower half. The link mentioned "mystical layer of hydrogen sulfate" instead of a halocline? I suppose that would be a weak sulfuric acid with a specific gravity heavier than fresh water, lighter than salt water.

 

[Harro10]

Yes, there it nothing "mystical" about it, although it does appear that way. Your explanation sounds like the way it was explained to me.
I have never dove in New Mexico. Do the pictures from Angelita look like the Blue Hole?

 

[DandyDon]

Yes, there it nothing "mystical" about it, although it does appear that way. Your explanation sounds like the way it was explained to me.
I have never dove in New Mexico. Do the pictures from Angelita look like the Blue Hole?

Oh yeah, sorta boring after you've done it a few times. Not much to see really. I like the cave features of the others better I think.

 

[ggunn]

The same fellow I'm referrencing as Matt...?

One and the same. Great DM, extremely competent cave diver, fellow Deadhead, great guy. Last May, my wife and I went to his wedding. I didn't feel much like a tourist that night.

 

[Harro10]

Gordon- did you, in the past, have a link in your posts to a Cozumel travel tips area that you had put together?

 

[DandyDon]

One and the same. Great DM, extremely competent cave diver, fellow Deadhead, great guy. Last May, my wife and I went to his wedding. I didn't feel much like a tourist that night.

Cool. I thot a lot of him, but didn't know what other, more experieced thot. Yeah I look forward to going across with him next time I can.

Funny thing, even with those shallow dives, I blew thru my air kinda fast. Too excited I guess. It was certainly exciting.

My bud and I watched Deep Sea Detectives doing the Cozumel cave dive last Sunday. That was more meaningful for us having experienced some of it, like halocline.