Category — Fotografia Subaquatico

I had the great pleasure of diving on the last day of December 2010, the last day of the year, and what a great dive it was. It was a very nice day, almost no clouds, balmy 27 C or so in the shade. With little regret I was thinking about the people living in snow storms along the U.S. East Coast or Central Europe where at this point a lot of airports, highways, Autobahns & train stations where closed due to the snow and ice. The water temperature in the Cenote was as always 24 C and visibility of over 60 meters.

Cenote Pet Cemetery

The day before the last day of 2010 I started diving with Jirky and Kirsty in Cenote Dos Ojos, both are avid Rebreather divers from Finland, using the JJ CCR Rebreather for all their diving they do and thus brought their Rebreathers to Mexico to do guided cavern diving. Besides having fun diving the beautiful Cenotes they were going to decide if they would like to take a CCR cave diver course in the future.

Cenote Pet Cemetery

When it came to decide where we are going to dive the last day of the year we decided to go to Cenote Pet Cemetery, part of the Nohoch Nachich cave system. Reason to go there was the high traffic at Dos Ojos as we are in peak season. Pet Cemetery is out of the way, far in the jungle and no snorkelers go there, at least not a lot of them. The Cenote is beautifully located deep within the jungle with high trees all around. The dry section of the Cenote itself is densely vegetated with palm trees. The cave itself is white with lots of Speleothems. A beautiful setting, very calming, very quite.

Cenote Pet Cemetery

Cenote Pet Cemetery has its name from cave explorers Mike Madden and Eric Hutchinson who when finding and surfacing in the Cenote for the first time during a cave exploration dive in search for a connection between cave systems Dos Ojos and Nohoch Nachich where looking at all the animal bones laying in the Cenote. Eric told me that Mike said it looked like a Pet Cemetery, thus the name.

When Jirky, Kristy and me rolled up to Pet Cemetery on that last day of 2010 we met Christine and Etienne, both local dive guides, who shared with us the last of the year dive experience.

Slowly we got ready and prepared our Rebreathers. Jirky and Kristy both dived their JJ CCR while I was on my Megalodon CCR. The first dive was done clock wise along the cavern line enjoying this beautiful white and decorated cave. Awesome. No camera was taken on the first dive to go for an orientation to the dive site and enjoy the dive without the burden of taking images.

During the surface interval just before the second dive we decided to bring the camera. Both JJ’s got rigged with slave strobes during the surface interval to lighten up the cave a bit behind the divers to give it more depth. I had two more strobes on my housing to lighten up the front of the divers.

Cenote Pet Cemetery

Off we went for our second dive of the day in a counter clockwise direction while I was shooting away, taking photos as we went around the Cavern tour loop. As we terminated the dive I took some half over half under images in the open water area right next to the platform and stairs.

Cenote Pet Cemetery

Matt

Nuevo concurso de fotografía submarina en la Riviera Maya

1er concurso de fotografía submarina que incluye mar, cavernas y cuevas

15 de Agosto de 2009 Playa Del Carmen, México La Alianza de Buzos de la Riviera Maya se complace en  anunciar el primer concurso de fotografía submarina recreativa y técnica de Playa del Carmen, México; evento que se llevará  a cabo del 5 al 12 de Diciembre del 2009, incluye la oportunidad de tomar fotografías en las cuevas y cavernas de Yucatán y en la segunda barrera de coral mas grande del mundo, el arrecife Mesoamericano.

“Este concurso de fotografía submarina esta destinado a celebrar la diversidad que existe en el mundo submarino de la Riviera Maya, un destino para bucear que ofrece buceo desde tierra o en el mar. No existe otro concurso de fotografía submarina en el mundo que ofrezca la variedad y las oportunidades para bucear y tomar fotografías.”  Afirman los organizadores: David Tomlinson, Lothar Batt y Andreas W. Matthes ‘Matt’ de la Alianza de Buzos de la Riviera Maya.

El Concurso de fotografía submarina de la Riviera Maya, es un evento anual de buceo con clase internacional, diseñado para alentar y expandir las habilidades de  fotografía submarina de nuestros buzos. Invitamos a  buzos de todas partes del mundo para visitar Playa del Carmen y participar en una experiencia memorable que incluirá buceo, eventos sociales y talleres, para finalizar con la presentación de las fotos ganadoras en una ceremonia de premios.  Algunos negocios locales y proveedores de equipo de buceo están apoyando este evento con premios, sesiones informativas y presentaciones para promover esta extraordinaria oportunidad. Contaremos con la presencia de jueces internacionales  que seleccionaran a los ganadores del concurso el día 11 de Diciembre en la ceremonia de clausura.

La Riviera Maya, localizada al sur de Cancún, cuenta con otras ciudades del caribe como Puerto Morelos, Playa del Carmen y Tulum, es afortunada en contar con sitios de buceo como las cuevas y cavernas subterráneas así como buceos en la segunda barrera coralina mas grande del mundo, el arrecife Mesoamericano, que se extiende a mas de 700 Km. desde Cancún hasta Honduras.

La Alianza de Buzos de la Riviera Maya es una red de centros de buceo que promueve el buceo de calidad en la Riviera Maya mediante eventos y promociones para apoyar a la comunidad de buceo. Los centros de buceo Abyss, Tank-ha y Protec unieron fuerzas en Mayo del 2009 para llevar a cabo esta visión y promoverla internacionalmente a quienes estén interesados en el buceo recreativo y técnico.

Andreas W. Matthes ‘Matt’
(984) 876-2506
www.divingphotocontest.com
contestrivieramaya@gmail.com