Diving in Mexico

Diving in Mexico brings you to reef Palankar - great for the most part remained in a pristine form reef, which stretches more than 5 kilometers. His surprisingly diverse marine life and coral-rich education to satisfy any taste, and there will be a place for diving divers at any level of experience. For convenience diving Kosumelya Association, which has over 150 registered sites for diving near the island, divided the area into four most popular diving area. Topographically banks of Palankar is very interesting object, as in some places it was at a depth of about 5 meters from the sea level, and at other sites shoals mini-walls falls by 18 m. Reef cut and issechen many cracks and creating caves. The deeper sites can be found black corals, such as Antipathes pennacea, and the stretch of the reef up huge cylindrical sponge. There is also a bright shade of yellow tube sponges, with whom live in symbiosis young basses; Live here and quite a number of fish that night, in search of refuge, often hiding inside the tubes formed sponges. Horseshoe Palankar forms a natural amphitheatre, as if the cut in the reef Palankar for Palankar Banks. Diving in the area has always held separately. The best diving in the deeper part, where currents gorgonovye big lie south of the island, surrounded by fish, corals and invertebrates. Despite the sinking of the Cave Palankar classified as deep, they go to a depth of 6 m from the surface. Reef tub is tilted heavily curved outwards and cotton. It seems that corals are living their lives here, they are the shafts, caves, wet and canyons. Deep holes are under coral massives, and sandy slopes sharply left deep. Large sheet issued from the reef corals to form benches, which are seeking refuge day and ryby-belki bycheglazye perches. To see this painting fish, divers should take the lantern. Gap Palankar is deeply rassechennuyu wall, which meets a wide variety of coral formations in all kinds of combinations. Around the block socket fish : vorchuny and lyutsiany and, if not quickly, it swim off of caves on the outside of the reef, can be seen green turtle or spotted rays. After millions of years, the sea level dropped, and bone shallow limestone plateau folded soft porous limestone, it is sensitive to erosion processes. Over the centuries, strong tropical storms, coupled with hurricanes vytochili in large underground limestone cavern. Building senote happened when little ceiling caves, thus opening the natural well. For Maya senote a source of fresh water, and Mayan priests engaged in these places their rituals. Senote Mexican Yucatan Peninsula separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico. This peninsula is the world caves, which form a complex system. Entrances to the cave-senote. This title is a misleading word of the Maya language, which means "well". Today Yucatán peninsula is the main area diving in caves. The Yucatán in the early 1980s were inspected more than 160 km underground, and some 80-90 senote. The most famous of all senote is Nohoch Nah Chich, inaugurated Mike Madden 1987. In a system of underground caverns that were surveyed and marked on the map about 50 kilometres cave passages. About 50 senote found along Akumal - Tulum Corridor, which is 100 kilometres south of the resort city of Cancun. While these senote sufficiently and examined, but by the end they were surveyed. Diving in senote is on lands under private ownership; In some spots for divers gross hizhiny-razdevalki built or constructed simple pomosty to descend into the water. Kosumel, the largest island in the Mexican Caribbean, is only 30 kilometres south-east of Cancun, a city on the Yucatan peninsula. Each shape in the form of drops, this poor island stretches 47 kilometres long and 15 kilometres wide. Most of it is covered by dense jungles and swamps, which are scattered among the ruins, remnants of the great works of Mayan civilization. But Kosumel not only rich in monuments of history, the island has generously blessed with beautiful beaches, which is surrounded by the clean waters of the western Caribbean Sea, and, of course, there are better places in the region for diving and swimming with a mask and tubing. In Kosumelya main town, San Miguel, which is located on the west coast of the island and its environs, many hotels, countless shops and restaurants. Visitors island offer some very interesting overview of Kosumelyu travel, the same can go on field trips to the ruins of the ancient Maya. Kosumelya coast is a classic manifestation of fossilized, or fossilizirovannoy, shoreline. The island emerged at the top of an underwater mountain as a result of tectonic movements in the earth's crust millions of years ago. The underwater plateau colonized coral education, particularly in the shallow water over the ridge. Vertical coral tumours, because of rising sea levels, formed around the original underwater mountains perpendicular barriers corals. Lower-level rise, along with the wind and waves, gradually eating coral reef coastline is not a typical example fossilizirovannoy the coast surrounded by fringing coral reef alive. The reefs and shoals in the south-west coast of the island, a perfect place for diving classes. In fact, virtually all diving on Kosumele is diving in currents. Dives are carried out with boats; Depending on your skill level conductors invite you to the best places. Apart from diving boat in the company of guides, there are also great opportunities for diving from shore-to find that many places on the west coast of the island. Dive sites Yucatan Peninsula Senote "Car". The senote remains the most popular, because of its accessibility and very transparent water; Immersion is suitable for divers of any skill level with any experience. Divers are encouraged to wear a protective suit and hood, as it senote home tetra prozhorlivye and other freshwater fish. Although they are small, but they have sharp teeth and can pose a real threat. Entering into a huge cave senote "Car" to be accessible to divers in the cavity, which, by definition, are required throughout the sinking remain within sight of the entrance, without specifically preparedness. But diving in caves-more serious business, since divers removed a significant distance from the natural sources of light, exploring intricate passages and tunnels cave system. The prerequisite is an identity diving in caves. Senote Sac Actun. The maximum depth is only 14 m and the temperature is constant-24C, and the place I never disappoint. The observed Steve De Carlo (Steve De Carlo) and Jim Koukom (Jim Coke), in November 1988, Senote Sac Actun characterized thousands pillars of varying thickness, some subtle, like straws. People could not hide tears after the first immersion into the cave system, which now surveyed more than 5,000 underground passages. El Grande Senote is a huge hit karst caverns, to store water in the central part. Entering zone dives hidden floating lilies. Visibility at senote-excellent. The visibility is always difficult, but when you are at a depth of more than 60 metres in the caverns and still be able to see how someone with a mask and tube flies at the entrance, there is clear evidence of the tremendous visibility. Pogruzhaetes you at the edge of a round hole, and the caverns extends far beyond the borders, which is natural daylight, and eventually caves are connected with other senote, and so is repeated time and again. Particularly striking stalactites, stalagmites, naplyvnye stones and other unusual education of the seats. And when you get away another diver, especially if there is no surrounding bubbles exhaled air, the show is similar to what if any man hung in space, and his obstupayut convoy match colonnade Cathedral.