Tag: Mexico diving
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Diving cenotes and visiting Mayan ruins near Tulum, Mexico
We dove in two cenotes and explored several Mayan ruins around Tulum in Mexico, after doing some diving in Cozumel in August 2023. Cenotes are sinkholes resulting from the collapse of the limestone bedrock. It is estimated that there are 10,000 cenotes around Yucatan peninsula. Some forming vast underground systems – a big draw for…
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Diving in Cozumel, Mexico
We did two days of diving in Cozumel in August of 2023, after our diving trip to Malpelo in Colombia and before heading to Tulum. Cozumel is famous for strong currents and drift dives. But with all the warm water and El Nino, or for whatever reason, the currents were very weak when we were…
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Diving Socorro, Mexico
Socorro diving is some of the best in the world. Socorro Island is one of the islands in the Revillagigedo archipelago in Eastern Pacific about 600 kilometers off the western coast of Mexico. The archipelago and waters around it are a marine park since 2017. Since Revillagigedo is not the most friendly word to pronounce,…
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Diving in Cabo Pulmo National Park, Mexico
Cabo Pulmo Marine National Park in the sea of Cortez in the East Cape of Baja California Sur is a Unesco world heritage site. The national park was established in 1995, in the area that suffered from significant overfishing. Since then, conservation has been successful and Cabo Pulmo is a case study in what effective…
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Diving in La Paz, Mexico
Diving in La Paz on the shores of the Sea of Cortez in Baja California Sur, Mexico we had amazing interaction with sea lions, saw a big school of mobula rays and lots of fish. We were diving in late December 2022. Water was getting cool at C21 and visibility dropping to less than 10…