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 ...

The eastern Yucatán Peninsula study region is pierced by vast interconnected flooded tunnels, that function as underground rivers. The groundwater is the only source of potable water for the whole ...

Scuba divers headed underwater to explore a cave in Yucatan, Mexico. They captured incredible footage inside of the cave. For more stories like this watch Right This Minute weekdays at 2:30 PM and ...

MEXICO CITY – A pair of cave divers said Monday they have found subterranean passages in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula that constitute the world's longest underwater cave system. British cave diver Steve ...

Divers plunging into Mexico's submerged Sac Actun cave system in 2007 stumbled upon a hidden world of Ice Age fossils, ...

Dive into a network of unexplored underwater caves in Mexico with Steve Backshall. Dive into a network of unexplored caves under the Yucatan Peninsula with Steve Backshall. After trekking through ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers diving into dark submerged caves on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula have found evidence of an ambitious mining operation starting 12,000 years ago and lasting two ...

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 ...

Divers in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula say they have discovered the world's largest underwater cave. Underwater archaeologists discovered last week that the cave system known as Sac Actun, located near ...

If one thing’s clear from Jill Heinerth’s breathtaking new memoir on her life as a professional cave diver, it’s that this unusual career path requires serious mettle. Self portrait under the tannic ...

With help from an experienced underwater cave-diving team, researchers have constructed the most complete map to date of the microbial communities living in the submerged labyrinths beneath Mexico's ...