Naharon – Mayan Blue

Day four we were picked up by Danny and headed to Mayan Blue. Mayan Blue has a little trouble with people breaking in to cars so, as there was no one else there we decided to go to Naharon over the road and dive through to Mayan Blue. Obviously as we didn’t wish to walk we would have to come back again although there were jokes about clipping flip flops to Al’s rear D ring so he could jog back and pick up the car.

The dive from Naharon is tight in places with restrictions which had to be negotiated in all our gear. Wriggling a scooter, two stages and doubles through limestone which claws at everything just required patience – and at some point cost Al his knife which was unknowingly sacrificed, hopefully to be picked up by another team. 

I don’t like black cave that much which is why Naharon is a cave I visit rarely, but this dive was the best of both worlds. Making our way from dark cave, via lots of jumps and restrictions, into white cave and the blue water which Mayan Blue is famous for was great. We lost a lot of time on the restrictions so didn’t hit burn time until minute 40 which had us to the jump to B Tunnel. We followed this until we saw the wonderful blue light and strong sun beaming through from the Mayan Blue cenote - minute 67 which would make it around a two hour swim. 


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Not bothering to surface, we took in the view and then returned, jumping off to have a look at E tunnel as we had more than enough gas. Danny had laid so many jumps going in that I pulled some on the way out just to give him a break.

This was a deeper average depth dive – around 18 meters and the 200 minute plus runtime we did meant we had a little deco to do. We played deco ‘scissors paper stone’ and I amused myself by bugging my buddy.