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Taj Mahal (Room of Reflections) May 2007And what a simply awesome dive this one is...After all the torture and indignities we were subjected to during class (lost buddy, unconscious diver, blind OOA exit), it's maybe a wonder that we come back. But then you look inside and well ... maybe it is obvious after all! I think "Room of reflections" line is also called DCS dome because the line moves from 30 feet to about 5 feet and back down to 30 again pretty rapidly. Surfacing inside the room is cool, some amazing formations in there. Sadly, lugging the camera around and only using 400 psi as we were in a team of two on our second dive on the same set of tanks, we didn't make it to the room with the camera in hand. Next time! A nice shot of divers hanging in the cenote.  Descending down to make a tieoff  Yes, our (German) buddy really does have a wing with the Swedish national colors on it ... Fred's class was already tied in on the left side, so we took the right side, using one leg of the sign as a good tieoff point  The beginning of the cave...  You can just see collected bubbles on the ceiling up ahead (more on this later)  The white limestone here is simply startling.  And then out of nowhere, stuck up in the ceiling everything goes brown. What awesome structures...   This weird brown thing sticks out in the middle of nowhere...  This reminds me of the roof (inside) of a really old church or something    More of those air pockets...   They look like liquid mercury stuck to the ceiling  And then ... you can see the reflection of the cave in them!   I still cannot get over just how white the limestone is ... (it is limestone, right?)    Looks like the landing gear on some kind of space ship  The "Polar Bear" rock  And cavern zone -- as awesome as these dives are, it is still a nice feeling to see home up ahead!  And back to the sign   The beautiful Cenote  it is dives like these that make all the pain and expense of the training well worth it. So far, that's been *every* dive (especially the dive when both my video lights went out, and I had to exit on a backup -- felt like home!) Video: 85M http://nickambrose.com/diving/movies/taj-mahal-room-reflections-may-2007.mov 9:30 PM - 5/29/2007 - post comment
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