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Follow the Vanilla Sky Project team, documenting their Mexico cave explorations "as it happens".
Following up the official GoPro series “Searching the Maya Underworld – Quest for the Earth’s Biggest Cave”, the team's explorations continue.
A newly discovered cenote by Robbie and the Vanilla Sky Project team quickly turned into a massive, highly decorated system, Nohoch Sac Tatich.
VANILLA SKY PROJECT 2020 | TRAILER
Unlike many Vanilla Sky Projects, which have teams spread out and exploring multiple cenotes, VSP 2020 started at a single cenote, Nohoch Sac Tatich- an absolutely gorgeous cenote, with mindbowing cave, including St. Patrick's Cathedral, an enormous, highly decorated room with a passage that headed right toward Sac Actun.
VANILLA SKY PROJECT 2020 | PART I
Nohoch Sac Tatich continues to go everywhere, as the teams continue to push east, inching back toward Sac Actun and also north into unworked territory.
VANILLA SKY PROJECT 2020 | PART II
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
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.
VANILLA SKY PROJECT 2020 | PART I
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.
VANILLA SKY PROJECT 2019 | PART II
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.
VANILLA SKY PROJECT 2019 | MYSTIC