Unknown Search on for overdue diver - Dzombakal cenote, Yucatan, Mexico

[DandyDon]

Professional diver disappears after entering a cenote in Yucatan - The Yucatan Times

The diver has been missing for more than 24 hours since he entered the Dzombakal cenote; firefighters and diving teams are carrying out rescue work until they find him. A professional diver disappeared when he entered to explore a Dzombakal cenote in Yucatan, he has been missing for 24 hours...

www.theyucatantimes.com

The diver has been missing for more than 24 hours since he entered the Dzombakal cenote; firefighters and diving teams are carrying out rescue work until they find him.

A professional diver disappeared when he entered to explore a Dzombakal cenote in Yucatan, he has been missing for 24 hours according to the first reports from relatives and rescue teams who assure that he entered on Friday morning and they have not had contact with him.

Local media and authorities have mobilized to search for the 51-year-old man whose identity is reserved so far only a code of the initials of his name located as R.O.A.G.B has been revealed, he usually arrived at the place and after 3 in the afternoon, the alarms went off.

The authorities realized that many hours had passed since he entered and there was no notification of his whereabouts, so at 3:00 p.m. that Friday, members of the San Antonio Mulix police station began to search for him.

Search mobilization unleashed for missing diver in Yucatan Cenote
Firefighters, volunteer divers, and members of a rescue school collaborate in the rescue efforts since everything indicates that he is still inside the Dzombakal cenote

This site is considered a tourist site for its amazing natural beauty, visited by dozens of divers, tourists, and various people who visit it from various parts of the country and the world, this underwater adventure showed the risk that they can run despite having the professional equipment and experience for the tour.

The search area is located in the city of Umán, a municipality in the Mérida metropolitan area. The place is protected by the search with oxygen tanks and professional equipment to enter to look for him.

The search for this Saturday, October 5, was suspended due to the schedule and to refill the oxygen tanks that have to be full to avoid any risk to the personnel who collaborate in the rescue. So far there is no trace of the man who went down to that cenote.

 

[ibj40]

You didn't clip the full article. This paragraph was below the last ad:

"Canadian diver disappears in Yucatan
This is not the first time that a similar incident has occurred in the Yucatan Peninsula where different people enter and run the risk despite their certification. In 2019, Cameron Donaldson, a foreign man who was diving in the northern area of Cozumel, Playa Las Rocas, disappeared for 48 hours.

He was carrying out a navigation and map study when he disappeared. Witnesses and authorities reported at that time that he entered the “Las Rocas” resort with his mother; only his mother managed to surface.

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[Steelyeyes]

You didn't clip the full article. This paragraph was below the last ad:

"Canadian diver disappears in Yucatan
This is not the first time that a similar incident has occurred in the Yucatan Peninsula where different people enter and run the risk despite their certification. In 2019, Cameron Donaldson, a foreign man who was diving in the northern area of Cozumel, Playa Las Rocas, disappeared for 48 hours.

He was carrying out a navigation and map study when he disappeared. Witnesses and authorities reported at that time that he entered the “Las Rocas” resort with his mother; only his mother managed to surface.

TYT New"

I was messaging with Cameron about an issue with a cruise ship dragging anchor through a reef the day before he disappeared. I was thinking about him the last time I went to Coz.

 

[emoreira]

Professional diver disappears after entering a cenote in Yucatan - The Yucatan Times

The diver has been missing for more than 24 hours since he entered the Dzombakal cenote; firefighters and diving teams are carrying out rescue work until they find him. A professional diver disappeared when he entered to explore a Dzombakal cenote in Yucatan, he has been missing for 24 hours...

www.theyucatantimes.com

The missing diver is from Argentina. His full name is Roberto Omar Alejandro Gandini Buix.
Though I do not know him, it was mentioned that he had cave certification. However, after a phone conversation with a known dive operator in Playa del Carmen, the dead diver broke every rule of cave diving. The dead body was found with the 3 tanks depleted and it seems he was lost in the cenote without any line. He was wearing cave diving gear. he was diving solo.

 

[Cenotes]

Clarification: if anyone does a word search in the future for this cenote, they'll now properly see these posts and this incident, as its name is Dzonbakal with an "n" and not an "m." It's adjacent to X-Batún.

As an aside, this part of the cited article is awkwardly written, if not funny at best and wrong at worst: "This site is considered a tourist site for its amazing natural beauty, visited by dozens of divers, tourists, and various people who visit it from various parts of the country and the world . . . ." The writer likely meant, "dozens [of people] per day."

 

[DandyDon]

Here's another article on the incident and the diver that covers both pretty well...

Diver dies in Mexico on solo cenote probe

A search and rescue operation was launched in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula last week when a solo cave-diver went missing in one of the cenotes, Dzonbakal.

divernet.com

Clarification: if anyone does a word search in the future for this cenote, they'll now properly see these posts and this incident, as its name is Dzonbakal with an "n" and not an "m." It's adjacent to X-Batún.

It's spelled both ways on various Google listings, but I think the site's sign agrees with you so I'd say that's official. Both spellings will now lead to this thread, thanks.