Dos Ojos cenote diving day: 2 dives on the Barbie and Bat Cave lines
Dos Ojos cenote diving is one cenote and two cavern lines: the Barbie Line and the Bat Cave, with a cave guide or instructor. The price includes hotel pickup from Playa del Carmen, the entrance fee, tanks with air and weights.
Dos Ojos cenote diving: the cenote of the day
- Dos Ojos is two round cenotes side by side, about 48 km south of Playa del Carmen. It is part of the Sac Actun-Nohoch-Dos Ojos system, the second longest underwater cave system in the world. Its cavern lines appear in The Cave, Journey into Amazing Caves and Planet Earth. Description, line map and the exploration project: /2023/04/07/dos-ojos-cenote/
How the day goes
- Pickup at your hotel in Playa del Carmen at 7:30 to 8:00. Then paperwork, tanks and the drive to Dos Ojos. Gear assembly, safety briefing, the first dive on one line. Fruit and drinks, then the second dive on the other line. After that you pack up, we return the tanks, and you are back at your hotel.
- Prices are for a group of two to four divers staying at the same place. A solo diver books individually at the group price plus $50. Snorkelers only accompanying divers, subject to availability. Book at least 24 hours in advance.
What is included / not included
- Included: hotel pickup and drop-off from Playa del Carmen, cenote entrance fee, cave guide or instructor, AL80 tanks with air, weights and belt, bottled water and fruit.
- Not included: Nitrox 32% fills ($9 per tank), photo and video service, diving insurance, camera fee where the cenote charges it, equipment rental (recreational scuba set $25, torchlight $5, dive computer $10 per day), tips.
Price
- 2 dives: $139 per diver, snorkeler $69.
Certification
- Open Water Diver or equivalent. Cenote ratings by CREER, the regional cave diving committee of Quintana Roo (Comité Regional de Espeleobuceo, Ecología y Regulación): https://creer-mx.com/cenote-ratings-and-status
What to bring
- A swimsuit, slippers, a towel and a set of dry clothes: we do not allow wet clothes inside our cars.
- Your own scuba equipment, or rent it from us (recreational scuba set $25, torchlight $5, dive computer $10 per day).
Rules of the day
- Buoyancy: the overhead environment requires good buoyancy control. The guide checks every diver’s buoyancy before entering the cavern zone; a diver whose buoyancy does not meet the safety requirements for overhead diving does not continue the dive.
- Medical: every participant completes and signs the standard Diver Medical Participant Questionnaire before the activity. A YES answer to any question in its final section requires written approval from a physician before diving. Without it the guest does not dive.
- Liability: every participant signs the standard diving General Liability Release and Express Assumption of Risk before the activity. Without the signed form the guest does not dive.