Diving Cenote Angelita, the Yucatan Peninsula’s Hidden ‘Underwater River’ Michael Waters - Atlas Obscura
go to original July 28, 2017

Cenote Angelita: "Underwater River" (TecdiveTV)

Scuba divers from across the globe flock to Angelita Cenote, an underwater cave along the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula, to witness an unusual mirage: a river in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico.

Located about 30 meters below the water’s surface at Angelita Cenote, the “river” is actually a halocline, or a hydrogen sulphide cloud formed from a clash in salinity levels between fresh and salt water. Both the fresh and salt water came to be trapped in the cave because of a sinkhole, which was caused by a limestone collapse. The result is a foggy layer that creates the appearance of a river beneath, where the salt water is concentrated.

The photographer Anatoly Beloshchin took these haunting shots of the quote-unquote river.

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