Ox Bel Ha - Jun 06, 2007 update
Dive Team: Fred & Chris
Surface support: Franco Attolini
Dive site
Name: Cenote Perla in the Ox Bel Ha cave system
Conditions: Water in Cenote was blood red. The cenote is surrounded with mangrove. The viz improved below 6 meters. Flow was noticeable further upstream.
Dive Objectives:
- Check out Bernie’s line from the Xux exploration project back in 1999.
- If possible push cave towards YC East.
- There isn’t much lead going to the SE or SW from there. The team swam 70 minutes upstream. The team notice bigger cave/rooms running to the NE. Most of the leads were accurately marked by Bernie.
- The team moved out of Perla to another small crack with clear water this time further downstream and located on rough footpath. Shallow cave with organic silt led the team to a dead end after a 20 minutes swim. This is the end of Bernie’s exploration line.
There are a few interesting leads to be checked out.
Comments/observation: The walk through wet terrain was hard. Mosquitoes were bad. Poor Franco was surface support all day!
| Line name: | Croc & Sigue |
| Passage width (meters): | 2 |
| Passage Height (meters): | 2 |
| Passage Shape: | Phreatic tube – canyons – flat ceiling |
| Fauna: | Isopod - shrimp |
| Speleothems: | Yes |
| Sediment: | Red & Brown – organic - |
| Infill: | Breakdown |
| Water: | Slightly tannic – Halocline mid passage at 42 ft - |
| Additional Comments: | Fossils in abundance |
Equipment and Survey: 1 x EAN 32 stage per diver
| Dive log: | |
| Dive # 1 | |
| Time in: | 10h30 |
| Time out: | 14h00 |
| Total run time: | 210 minutes |
| Max Depth: | 55 ft |
| Av Depth: | 35 ft |
| Divers: | Fred & Chris |
| Dive log: | |
| Dive # 2 | |
| Time in: | 14h45 |
| Time out: | 15h50 |
| Total run time: | 65 minutes |
| Max Depth: | 30 ft |
| Av Depth: | 25 ft |
| Divers: | Fred & Chris |