Santo Domingo
CUEVA TAINA

Cueva Taina is near the Santo Domingo airport and a 45 minute drive from downtown Santo Domingo, you will need directions to get there.

Entrance of Taina Property
Main gate to Taina property

The cave is located on private property and an entrance fee must be paid to the owner to dive here. The entrance is a large sinkhole with a metal spiral staircase that leads right to the water's edge.

Stairs to go down to taina view of taina

There are two different sides to this cave, the right side leads through a large tunnel and a big airdome, following the main line almost at the end, a jump to the left down a boulder collapse to the longest section of the cave, here the room is quite big and decorated, there is a pronounced hallocline and the walls are very white.


 Further along, the mainline goes down and through a restriction at which point the cave tunnels are no longer decorated but made up of various rock and boulder collapses, this eventually leads to a large sized room toward the back of the cave and through a final restriction at -42 meters the deepest point of the cave before ending in a choke.

To the left the entrance goes straight down to the mainline, this side of the cave is very different and highly decorated with crystal white stalactites and columns everywhere. Swimming along the mainline for a while there is a jump to the left that leads to a really cool low but very wide bedding plane that is super decorated in places and looks really cool.


Following the mainline straight leads to what used to be a exit but is has been filled in with rocks by the owner and is no longer an exit.

 

The connection to this former exit was made by Walter Frischbutter (Treasure Divers Boca Chica) and Ralf Biegel. The deep north-east side was dove to the current end by Wulf Schubert and Stefan Meszaros after pushing and opening up a major SM passage.

Each side can be seen with two AL80's and is suitable to any configuration, access is very easy and, and cars are safe when parked inside the property, kids will carry your tanks down for a fee.

Please check the links section for this area's dive shops, hotels and filling stations.