Cathedral Light

Cenote light beams in the Yucatan - freshwater caverns where the sun arrives like stage lighting.

Wrecks and caves

Cenote 1
Depth -24 m
Location Yucatan, Mexico
Season Dry season
Commissioned by Halelani Resorts

In the cenotes of the Yucatan, sunlight falls through holes in the jungle floor and lands in the water like a spotlight on a stage. The pictures are half photography, half timekeeping: each beam has a schedule, and you plan the dive around it the way you would plan around a tide.