Cuba cave diving

[CaverCraig]

A few weeks ago I was with German, the owner of Yucatech expeditions in Cozumel and he told me about the caves in Cuba, apparently they have a very similar Geological structure a the Cenotes that we have here, but with a lot of quartz in them, reflecting the light in an amazing way, I'll try to go next year.

Contact German, he was exploring and training guides there, I'm sure that he will give you all the insights, http://www.yucatech.net/contactus.htm

A lot of americans fly through Cancun, is very cheap and there are like 3 flights a day to la Habana.

If you get to dive there don't forget to post some pics.

Hope this helps, cheers,

Ernesto.

That sounds kind of weird that their would be any sort of quarts in a lime stone cave. Quartz is igneous in nature while limestone is a sedimentary rock. I bet that who ever made that observation had mistaken it for Dogtooth spar a calcite crystal which is common in caves. Or the other possible canidate would be argonite a polymorph of Calcite caused by Magnesium poisening it is other wise meta stable at surface pressue temprature gradients. It sounds like the Glory hole cave but flooded.

[Taucher-Tom]

hi Phillip,

I knew it would take a while and I had to dig deep but finally found it.

A German cave diver is frequently in Cuba and explored some really nice caves there.

He wrote a little booklet and I made a file from the map he draw.

It´s attached together with the content and in the booklet there is information like maps and "facilities" with phone numbers.

Let me know if this is where you will be going and if you need more information

[Phil]

Hi again,
I just found pictures of 2 caves entrances in Cuba in the Pig bay area (just on the other side of the road, a little walk in the jungle...).

Here to enjoy (hope it will work!).





Phil

[natalisilverio]

hi Phillip,

I knew it would take a while and I had to dig deep but finally found it.

A German cave diver is frequently in Cuba and explored some really nice caves there.

He wrote a little booklet and I made a file from the map he draw.

It´s attached together with the content and in the booklet there is information like maps and "facilities" with phone numbers.

Let me know if this is where you will be going and if you need more information

Hi Taucher-Tom

I'm very interested in getting a copy of this booklet. I'm taking a Intro to Cave Course and due my little experience in cave diving and I'm trying to find as much information as possible about the cable conditions, locations and contacts in order to decide where I should or if I should cave diving around there. I will arrive in Cuba in December and I want to write an article about Cave Diving in Cuba to a Brazilian Diving Magazine telling the our community about the exploration potential, even if I do not dive there. I'm sure this booklet would help me a lot.

Thanks