Hola, que tal?
I have been doing my website lately and forgot about the blog... Anyway, I'm here and will go over what went on for the last six months (for real???)
Just before, as it is still fresh, let me tell you about my last cave dive.
I was at Chikin Ha with my new buddy. I'm a member at The Deco Stop forum and there, I met a guy who lives in Cancun and happens to be also looking for a buddy from time to time.
So, last Sunday, meeting at Chikin Ha, ten minutes from Puerto Aventuras, we decide to do the dive there. My new buddy seems to know the owner and 'gate keeper'. We end up paying a ridiculous $80 pesos for both of us, or in another way, I pay and my buddy does not! It goes like that in some cenotes, not always but it goes as 'one guide and one diver'.
At the setting tables, we go for a view of the upstream entrance...It is a beautiful spot, surrounded by lush jungle. It is quiet for a Sunday, but apparently the owners are having it private that day, so it's just us...
The dive plan is or was to dive the upstream line until we reach the Deli Shop line or on air restriction.
So, as we gear up, we talk and get to know each other a bit more. My new buddy is an experienced cave diver and has been diving for the last ten years, doing 25 to 30 cave dives a year. Not much but enough to have logged more dives than me!
Once ready, I start my way down to the entrasnce of the cenote Chikin Ha aka cenote X'Tabay.
at the edge of the entrance pool, I realise that my primary regulator is not working properly. I decide to take the plunge anyway as the air temperature is reaching 100 in my seven milimeter wetsuit...
(the rest!!!)
Thank to Murphy for the heads up, and thanks to my new buddy who had brought a stage with him. After the swap of hose and posts we review our plan.
It was going to be a simple dive, as I haven't been in the water for few month. For those of you who know me, after my cut at Punta Venado and the Flu crisis/pandemic I was forced out of the water!
Anyway, the plan goes like this:

• S-drill then follow cavern line until it ends and jump onto cave line (to the left)


• After 10/15 minutes, another jump, at that point we were at cenote Xochacalico.


• From there, go on the line until third


• At the time to turn, just take a look at the jump to Deli Shop line


• On the way out, enjoy the shallow of the cave and look for cave lines

It went very well, and just as we reached the jump to the Deli Shop line, I was on my third. So we turned the dive and swam out.
In the cavern area, we found a cave line, not marked (arrow), we entered the first 50 meters, with our own line and realised that it percolates from every angle and needs to be done with fresh tanks!
All in all, this was a great come back to the cave diving scene. We promised to each other to dive again and certainly, dive again, here, at cenote X'Tabay.

Yesterday, I took my regulator at Phocea, so the tech there could have a look at it...I was told to leave it on watch for the night as it suffers a strange flu like symptom...WTF!!!

Ok, thats it for now, hope you enjoy the read and will be posting about my regulator soon, I hope!