Taak Bi Ha is a covered cenote. It’s excellent to begin your love affair with snorkeling and recreational diving among impressive speleothems. At first, a small entrance leads to a vast room featuring many beautiful formations of stalactites and stalagmites. Cenote is located on the road of Dos Ojos Park. Turn left 50 meters after the Dos Ojos Cenote entrance.
The name “Taak Bi Ha” means “hidden route of water”.
Dos Ojos cave system
Taak Bi Ha Cenote is part of the Dos Ojos cave system. Currently, the Sistema Sac Actun-Nohoch-Dos Ojos is the world’s second-largest underwater cave system. It spans 376.7 km (234 miles) of underwater lines and reaches a maximum depth of 119.18 m (391 ft). The Dos Ojos section is an anchialine cave system connecting to naturally intruding marine water and tidal influence in the cenotes. Humans have not yet explored this cave system’s coastal discharge point(s) through to the ocean. By coloring the water, we discovered that large volumes of groundwater were flowing toward Caleta Xel Ha, a nearby coastal lagoon.
Our article “Sistema Dos Ojos Exploration Project” explains the history of exploration in more detail.
Taak Bi Ha Cenote area was used for filming underwater scenes for a few underwater cave movies:
- The IMAX film Journey into Amazing Caves (2001);
- And the award-winning BBC program Planet Earth series, Caves (2006);
- The Cave (2005);
Located upstream from Dos Ojos West, approximately 800 ft (244 m), Cenote Taak Bi Ha offers a range of experiences, from snorkeling to guided recreational cavern tours and cave dives. Accordingly, the cavern line is available for recreational divers to enjoy beautiful speleothems around the cenote entrance. Known for its spectacular speleothem dives, the cenote offers cave divers plenty of time to enjoy the beautifully decorated cave system.
However, you have to know that due to the absence of natural daylight, it is not considered a safe or legal cavern tour site under the APSA cavern tour regulations.
Our Taak Bi Ha Cenote cave diving video
Cenote cave lines map
Cave lines
Finally, there are three cave lines available for exploration. The IMAX line is the main route, circling Taak Bi Ha Cenote from the Dos Ojos Barbie line (downstream) towards the LSD line area (upstream). Further, you can venture into the massive Kentucky Castle area (T-right). Alternatively, passing the Tikim Chi Cenote (T-left), cave divers can explore the El Pit Cenote area.
The cave lines suit beginners who are Intro to Cave (GUE Cave 1) divers. They want to grow their experience before continuing to the Full Cave (GUE Cave 2) pass. Undoubtedly, you should install the main reel in the open water area. There is a trick where the open water in the covered cenote is located, which allows compliance with the Intro to Cave (GUE Cave 1) rules.
Taak Bi Ha Cenote location map
The first explorers were Jim Coke and Johanna DeGroot.
Other explorers were Jesse Armentrout, Steve Berman, Mauro Bordignon, Steve Bogearts, Mike Cameron, Rich Chapski, Nancy DeRosa, Tony DeRosa, Pablo Diaz, Will Dooley, Donn Ellerbrock, Kenneth Furman, MaryAnn Gamble, Steve Gamble, Bill Gavin, Steve Gerrard, Dr. Lee Gibson, Sergio Granucci, Mark Grant, Jill Heinerth, Paul Heinerth, Hilario Hiler, George Irvine, Steve Irving, Brian Kakuk, Steve Keene, Keith Kinard, Michael Lang, Gary Lemme, Jonathan Lesh, Dan Lins, Connie LoRe, Travis LoRe, Kevin Mack, Mike Madden, Sandro Madeo, Sam Meacham, Bill Mee, Jim Mellon, Michael Menduno, Lance Milbrand, David Miner, Jim Osborne, Robbie Osman, Andrew Pitkin, Chris Pyle, Bil Philips, “Buddy Quattlebaum, Rosemary Redgen, Bill Rennaker, Kevin Retton, Donna Richards, Simon Richards, Daniel Riordan, Leo Sastre, Sue Sharples, Chuck Stevens, Nicolai Toussiant, Claudia Tolentino, Pierre Watson, Martin Wright, Tom Young, Dr. John Zumrick, Gary Walten, Kay Walten, Patrick Widdmann, and others unknown.
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