Comments on: Sistema Dos Ojos Exploration Project https://cave-ha.com/2024/06/11/sistema-dos-ojos-exploration-project/ Advanced Technical Cave Dive Training, Cavern, Cave and Ocean Guided Scuba Diving in Mexico Mon, 24 Mar 2025 20:34:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Alexander Vronsky https://cave-ha.com/2024/06/11/sistema-dos-ojos-exploration-project/#comment-205 Mon, 24 Mar 2025 20:34:30 +0000 https://cave-ha.com/?p=1873#comment-205 In reply to James. McHugh.

Incredible story, James! Thanks for sharing! It was a real frontier in those days.

]]> By: James. McHugh https://cave-ha.com/2024/06/11/sistema-dos-ojos-exploration-project/#comment-201 Sat, 01 Mar 2025 03:22:28 +0000 https://cave-ha.com/?p=1873#comment-201 My wife and I met Buddy in 1986 in Xcacel. We were staying at Pink Flamingo in Akumel (place of the turtle) on half moon bay. We met a family from Calif at the pool. He told us if we wanted to see turtles we should go 5 klicks south to Xcacel and meet Buddy. We did. There was only a Cantina and camping ground, and Buddy and his mother living in a trailer. They had dug imprints in the sand and pumped sea water to them. There were two imprints.
We met Buddy at the Cantina, shirtless, barefoot, and tanned. When we explained our interest in turtles he directed us to the indents.
The first one approx 15 ft by 10 ft (?) Had baby turtles, maybe one week old, 30 or 40 of them. The second had the same amount of turtles, but they were about six or seven weeks . He explained they were ready to be released as they now had 100 fewer dangers in the ocean.
He directed us to return to Xcacel that evening and find Julio. Who worked for the government
Counting turtles.
We returned 9 pm that night and met Julio. He took us to the very south end of the beach to the turtle hatchery. (There was a sunken wreck just offshore) It was fenced off with about 20 or more turtle nests. There was one nest that had a wire around it and there was two baby turtles scratching at the wire. He directed us to the next beach south (Xcacalito) and his crew. These men had found a fresh nest that was breaching the sand. They were taking the hatchlings and counting them, then to be released to the Mexican Gulf. As we watched the crew counted over eighty turtles, then handed us the bucket and told us to release the newborns to the water. Of eighty two were still born. The turtles swam immediately into the ocean and apparently to the sargasso sea.
We all returned to the hatchlings at the point and the nest the had two newborns now had 30 or more hatchling crawling all over each other.
The crew counted the hatchlings and put them in a bucket. They then gave us the bucket and instructed us to set them free. They told us to go some distance down the beach as they had released turtle babies earlier at this spot.
Went scuba diving off Akumel with Buddy.
Saw school of 10 foot marlin(?) Later went cave diving with Buddy (cenote-bats).
Did dos Ohos in the 90’s .

]]> By: Alexander Vronsky https://cave-ha.com/2024/06/11/sistema-dos-ojos-exploration-project/#comment-94 Wed, 04 Sep 2024 14:50:44 +0000 https://cave-ha.com/?p=1873#comment-94 In reply to Zack.

Thank you, Zack, for the comment! Appreciated! I would be happy to add relevant credits if you share the details with me.

]]> By: Zack https://cave-ha.com/2024/06/11/sistema-dos-ojos-exploration-project/#comment-93 Tue, 13 Aug 2024 03:53:10 +0000 https://cave-ha.com/?p=1873#comment-93 You do not give credits to all the locals that made that happen. Building the camp. Takeing all the tanks in keeping the the landcruiser going. When it breakdown in the middle of project.. You also forgot the staff of the diveshop and many more situation. You paid 2 shity buck to locals to carry tank on there back. and some of the info you put do not match. You also forgot the the girl who made the map. I was there.

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