Light In The Underworld

Martin Broen · Issue 140, Sep/Oct 2024 · pp. 59–64

Products mentioned: Sony a1, Canon 8-15mm lens, Nauticam mini glass dome, BigBlue 33,000 lumen video lights, BigBlue 1,200 lumen lights, SeaCraft DPV, Razor sidemount wing, GoPro 3

Although I’ve been diving for 30 years, it only recently became a true passion, leading me to take up underwater photography, and both started with a visit to a Cenote in the Tulum 8 years ago After several dives in the open sea around Cozumel, I decided to try a cenote called Angelita. I remember feeling disappointed when the guide explained that we wouldn’t see any colorful fish, coral, or much life at all, but just go around a vertical sinkhole with sediment at its. With very low expectations, we began our descent, staying close to see our dive lights in that tinted water. But a few meters down, the visibility became crystal clear, with no sign of being underwater except for our bubbles. As we continued down, a cloud with branches emerged beneath us, and I had the mind-bending experience of floating in mid-air above an enchanted forest. I began diving in the recreational cenote cavern…