Vanilla Sky Project 2019 was a massive effort. With over 10 cenotes to explore, and hikes of almost 4km each direction.
Robbie had found several cenotes to check out, but while hiking to those cenotes we found several more. With 12 explorers, and ~30 tanks needing to be filled every day, 2 compressors were hiked out to support the project over the sprawling exploration area.
In the end over 10.5km of line was laid, and 3 episodes follow the team while they explore this new area, and cave systems.
VANILLA SKY PROJECT 2019 | TRAILER
PART I
Vanilla Sky Project 2019 was in a new area that’s littered with cenotes, and of course that area wasn’t close or easy to get to.
10+ cenotes and 3+ that go, spread out over a ~4km area. Due to the distance between the cenotes (3.2km between the two corner cenotes), two compressors were needed this year to support the explorations.
If that weren’t enough, the caves were fairly deep, so the scooters and rebreathers were hiked in pretty early on as well. The payoff was new, unexplored caves that seem to go – Elementos and Kiichpan.
PART II
The exploration keeps going deeper into the jungle, which means hiking a compressor, and more gear, even farther in. Totally worth the effort, as there are some gorgeous cenotes and caves. Three in particular are pushing close to each other, including a new one, Burning Wasp, and even moving toward O’Ho Tucha (VSP 2018) and MOAC system.
MYSTIC
One day in the project. A small group checked out another target which ended up being a massive depression, with several stunning dry caverns, pools and entrances, and….artifacts, possibly pre-Mayan.
This was excruciating – we had a single day to work here.. If it really went, we’d return, but with 3 other caves going, all we had was the one day to decide if it was going or not. One day was not enough.
The other caves were really going, so we hauled everything back out to work the going caves. Something to look forward to picking up again on another visit.
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