Cenotes offer a whole new dimension to diving, enabling a diver to float inside spectacular flooded cave systems. Every turn of every dive is a new underwater world of stalagmites and stalactites which often connect to create huge pillars. Waters can often be very clear. So as long as divers avoid kicking up silt, visibility can be in excess of 30 metres. Visibility can also be become strangely hazy, when thermoclines and haloclines create the water equivalent of desert heatwaves through your mask.

Lighting is everything on a cenotes dive. Major entrances appear like beautiful rippling sunlit forest scenes, whilst small holes in the roof of a cavern can shoot laser beams of light into the water. You will discover hidden chambers; places where thousands of bats roost on the ceiling of a cave; and the roots of trees break through that ceiling to locate water in a land where surface water is almost entirely non-existent.

Light can be eliminated altogether, reminding you how imperative it is to follow safe cavern and cave diving procedures so that you never need fear getting lost. Safety is our primary concern, which starts with a relaxed briefing above water, showing you a map and walking the route on land above the cenote itself. You will never feel rushed - it's essential that you feel prepared and although every dive is a completely different adventure to the last, you will have a sense of what the dive will be like before you step into the water.

These trips can be any duration you like; whether that's a single day starting and ending in Cancun, or a few days of Pure Cenotes; or combined with a longer trip incorporating Belize, coral reef diving on the island of Cozumel or one of our expert led Whale Shark Research & Photography experiences each July / August.

The caverns of Mexico are incredibly varied. The longer you have, the more of the world's most extensive flooded underworld you will be able to explore.