Cenote The Pit is an amazing sinkhole inside the deep jungle, an upstream branch of the Sac Actun System (the longest underwater river system in the world). The Pit is with 391 ft/119 m the deepest cenote in the State of Quintana Roo. This dive will be for sure an unforgettable adventure in your life!

Before the dirt road leading to the entrance of The Pit and the stairs down to the water were built, divers had to first walk about 300 m/1000 ft from the dirt road and then had to lower their gear about 7 m/24 ft to the water with ropes. These developments, for sure, have facilitated access to this dive site enormously!

Amazing sun rays penetrate to 30 m/100 ft crashing with a hydrogen sulfate cloud. Until 2011, below the white hydrogen sulfate cloud, various groups of ancient bones, an animal skeleton, a human skull and a jaw with four molars could be found. However, they were removed for conservation studies by INAH (Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia) and are now at the Museo Nacional de Antropologia in Mexico City. Today, we can still admire the remains of what seemed to be an old fire place with small burnt bones.

We perform a multilevel profile dive, ascending progressively, making circles around the gigantic cylinder where, in the shallower area, you will see black lines on the wall showing the variation of the water level through the ice ages and you can admire a beautifully decorated ceiling with thousands of white thin formations.

This dive is only for the experienced diver holding a minimum of an Advanced Open Water Diver certification or a Deep Diver Specialty certification.