As a bit of an avid cave diver, I delight in hearing news about new caves discovered in Mexico and elsewhere in the world, particularly the underwater variety because I’m one of a handful of people around the world crazy enough to want to go in there. Steve Bogaerts in particular is beyond this sort of craziness, diving with his aptly-named “No-Mount” cave exploration gear in extremely small passageway and laying down some serious lineage in The Pit at Dos Ojos wearing his double-redundant rebreather, this cave diver is truly one of the elite. This letter and this picture came in via e-mail from Steve, who lives in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico. The message is after the jump.

There is no secret amongst my friends and those who know me that I am an avid cave diver. Yes, underwater spelunking. Yes, what they talked about in The Cave. Yes, the same kind of underwater caving as portrayed in the documentary Journey Into Amazing Caves. The Cave had a horrible definition about the reality of caving. Even JIAC wasn’t much better despite being a documentary because they made it seem as though we were there, “…to find the elusive halocline…”. Wrong.