Calavera, literally The Skull, takes its name from the three holes featured on the ceiling of the sugar bowl like shaped sinkhole. It is the main entrance of the system Temple of Doom. The water entrance is performed by climbing down a ladder or by performing a 2 meter/ 9 feet jump through the ceiling’s larger hole.
The dive starts by dropping following the edge of a huge hill of sediment, along with amazing rays of light. The light show is spectacular seen from the bottom of the cavern, which is made of white phreatic rocks, dissolved into all possible shapes, and below the halocline. On their way back up, divers swim in spiral along the wall and until their reach the beautiful speleothems stained black and hanging under the ceiling to end this dive that has such a unique atmosphere.
Points of Interest: Halocline, light effects, original water entry
Opening Hours: 8am - 5pm
Water Temp.: 24 C / 75 F - 26 C / 79 F
Max. Depth: 15 meters / 49 feet
Length: 160M
Min. Certification Required: Open Water Diver
Approx. Dive Duration: 40' - 50’
Got its name because taxis used to be washed roadside Coba, but it's also called Aktun Ha. Located 8kms/ 5 miles from Tulum. Is a very popular site for swimming as well as Cavern and Cave Diving. Looks like a huge pond with over 50 meters/ 150 feet wide with an average depth of 3 meters/ 9 feet. Sometimes during the summer months, a layer of algae invades different levels, and the bottom of the cenote appears to be green. The entrance of the Cavern is very wide with a lot of light penetration and has a screen of dead trees in front of it creating the cool effect of a drowned forest. Looking back out of the entrance from the Cavern through the silhouette of the trees at the green or red light streaming through the opening is a stunning sight and very popular with photographers. The rest of the cavern zone is very nicely decorated with many different types of formations that are chestnut brown/caramel in colour.
Back out in the open water Carwash has a large population of Tetras that like to shoal and play in diver’s bubbles. Also look out turtles that make carwash their home.
Points of Interest: Special fauna and flora, tree roots, curtain of light
Opening Hours: 8am - 5pm
Water Temp.: 24 C / 75 F - 26 C / 79 F
Max. Depth: 5 - 20 meters / 16 - 65 feet
Min. Certification Required: Open Water Diver
Approx. Dive Duration: 40' - 50’
Angelita means Little Angel and is a deep pit sinkhole situated 17 kms/ 10 miles South of Tulum.
Divers descend 30 meters/ 99 feet vertically in a gigantic well, 50 meters/ 164 feet of diameter. The water is crystal clear and allows the sunlight to reach the unique looking sick white cloud of hydrogen sulfite that lays in the halocline. Huge amounts of sediment and collapse rocks create a central hill that just points its tip a few meters above the cloud, and to complete this incredible picture, a dead tree is lying there too that seems to have been put there in purpose! If you venture below the cloud, then you’ll enter a pitch-black chaotic realm of decaying organic material, before resurfacing in spiral in a multi-level profile.
Points of Interest: Deep pit, halocline, hydrogen sulfite cloud, tree roots, curtain of light
Opening Hours: 8am - 5pm
Water Temp.: 24 C / 75 F - 26 C / 79 F
Max. Depth: 30 meters / 99 feet
Min. Certification Required: Open Water Diver / Good buoyancy control
Approx. Dive Duration: 30' - 50’