Best Cave Diving and Cenote Tour Destinations Worldwide
Browse more guides: India travel | Asia destinations Best Cave Diving and Cenote Tour Destinations Worldwide Cave diving sits at the technical end of recreational scuba - a specialty requiring substantial advanced training because the overhead environment removes the ability to surface in emergency, and because cave systems can be disorienting and dangerous to inexperienced divers. The destinations are concentrated where geology has produced extensive water-filled cave systems and where commercial guide services have developed safe-access protocols. Cenote diving (cenotes are open, water-filled sinkholes) is a more accessible variant - typically open-water-overhead with natural light - that introduces non-cave-certified divers to the cave-diving aesthetic without the highest-risk technical commitment. I have only an Open Water Diver certification; I haven't done full cave diving. My experience is limited to a single cavern dive at Cenote Dos Ojos in Mexico. Most of what's ...