re: #162 Botsplainer

Sounds like you made the same basic set of cenotes I did - I’d forgotten Taj Mahal and Kukulkan as names. My week had been a little affected because of the particulates and some clouds due to the weather.

Sucks about the computer - I got lucky with having a private guide just to myself, so he was constantly reminding me to leave nothing behind. He’s an awesome guy, a Spaniard who is married to a Mexican-Lebanese woman.

I’m hoping the weather is awesome next month - I want to do The Pit under full sunlight this time, and to get better reflections off some of the other haloclines. Looking for some nice reed time, too.

One of the dive shops here is closing - most of the good stuff is gone, but I did pick up an Oceanic BUD backup that may have had some age dust on the package. I was a little bummed when I realized I couldn’t buy that battery off the rack - unlike my other (which takes a ubiquitous battery), it takes something like a 2430. Had to order battery, casket, and realized I was out of silicone grease., so I had to order that too. Anyway, I’ve always wanted the backup, and it was something like half off.

You wouldn’t happen to be in the Louisville area by any chance? I know one is closing up there. I’m thinking I may get a BUD, lucky I had my old Mares Puck as a backup so I had that for the rest of the trip. The profiles we were doing, (except for The Pit) I would have been fine with just my mini depth and SPG console. The Pit we were on 32% nitrox and blew past the MOD by about 10 feet to go look at some pottery. It was mid-day when we dove it, the sun was coming straight down the shaft. It was freaking awesome. Afterwards one of the shop owners that I work for told me that he wasn’t too excited about it at first, but came out thinking that it was one of the most awesome dives of his entire career. I’d do it again in a heartbeat.

RBS