Over the last decade, Tulum has blossomed into a major tourist destination along the Yucatán Peninsula. One of the main attractions are the thousands of cenotes that blanket Tulum, where people swim, ...

Sixty feet beneath the jungle floor in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, inside a limestone cave filled with water, Tom Stotmeyer was at an impasse. How was he going to get his stout frame through a ...

If the marine world is the least explored region of our planet, then underwater caves represent Earth’s final frontier—which begins to explain why I’m standing in the middle of a Mexican jungle gazing ...

Every time someone visits Mexico, they marvel at how much there is to see and do. While pondering under the Mexican sunshine, they’re probably very hot with temperatures reaching over 90 degrees ...

Points of rock hung from the ceiling, piercing the water’s surface and extending down another few feet like upside down porcupine spines. Ripples surrounded them and, with our lights, they seem to ...

Considered sacred waters by the Mayans, the expansive El Gran Cenote is an underground cavern that is a refreshing antidote to the Tulum heat and sun. Here, you can swim, snorkel and dive amid some ...

John Donovan is a writer based in Atlanta. He writes on a range of topics including nature, health, history, and pop culture. In the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, on the southeastern shore of the ...

For most people, scuba diving in Mexico is an exciting vacation adventure. For Fernando Calderon Gutierrez, it’s just another day at the (underwater) office. A postdoctoral research assistant at Texas ...