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5 reasons it’s time to finally learn to scuba

A scuba diver explores a cave inside Casa Cenote on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. The area is known for cenotes, sinkholes flooded with groundwater, that attract swimmers, snorkelers, and divers.

2024-04-15    

But then I looked around and was stunned into stillness. I found myself in an enchanted forest straight out of a Grimms’ fairy tale. Porites, a type of stony coral, burgeoned like giant mushrooms. Brightly colored lemonpeel and flame angelfish flickered around them. Sandy channels cut between the porites, white-sand ribbons over which squadrons of ocellated eagle rays soared. Farther on, the forest morphed into a garden of Montipora coral colonies, giant rosettes providing cover for resting whitetip reef sharks.

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