This story started back in 2009 and I was invited this year to co-author a short article on it that later was published in the NSS (National Speleological Society) News March 2012. I am extremly proud as this is the first big cave diving related publication for me. Thanks to Leigh to have pushed me towards it and to Dave Bunnell for his great website The Virtual Cave and support in finding out how those formations were actually formed.
Cenote Zapote
I can’t claim that I was the first person to dive Cenote Zapote, the cave is not listed in the QRSS cave list of the area, but Vicente Fito’s name is mentioned on an arrow at the line. I did my personal exploration on a day off, with two tanks and a sidemount rig ready and an idea to check out a couple of cenotes whose entrances I had seen some weeks
before. And already a first dive revealed this jewel on September 12, 2009. I immediately realized that this is something special and exactly a month later, I came back with two friends to shoot photos and video. Since that time I have brought numerous people to this special place and it got quite famous among cave divers here, because if you think you have already seen everything, I always can surprise people by showing them this special place.
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