Tamara Adame
Tamara was born and raised in Quintana Roo and grew up in Puerto Morelos, a sleepy fishing village off the Caribbean coast of Mexico. She has spent the majority of her life in, on, or around water and has practiced scuba and freediving from a young age. At University, Tamara majored in Communication Science and initially developed a career in marketing management in Belgium, where her eagerness to see the world took her by chance. After 10 years of enjoying life as a Bruxelloise, she was naturalized Belgian. She holds dual nationality and she is very proud of her adoptive country, keeping close ties with it and visiting when possible. In 2014 Tamara felt a calling to pursue a life in nature and she left her European dream life to go back to her roots and become a scuba instructor in Mexican waters. Here, she rediscovered her love for the Ocean and became involved in scientific diving, conservation projects, research, marine biology programs, and underwater naturalism.
She has dived in Mexico, Egypt, Maldives, the Marshall Islands, Belize, Alaska, Poland, the Nederlands and Belgium.
In 2016 she started cave diving training and in 2018 she tried deep diving which also allowed her to become a scientific diver in multiple projects and to work as a cavern and cave guide while running her independent diving business.
During the lockdown in 2020, Tamara was introduced to the art of survey and exploration and decided to start training to become a cave diving instructor under the mentorship of Patrick Widmann. In parallel, she started a cave science project to be able to document and identify fossilized coral species in the Mexican caves, which was backed by Xdeep Exploration Support Program. This has put Tamara on the tracks of a professional career as a cave diving instructor.
Other facts about Tamara? She is a freediver, certified Aida 4*, and her PB is 40m on one breath… She was a National Geographic Explorer 2018-2020 with a short environmental documentary film awarded a Jackson Wild film award. And she speaks and teaches in Spanish, English and French.
Instructor Levels:
- PSAI Intro to Cave Instructor
- PSAI ABC Instructor
- PSAI Sidemount Instructor
- TDI Intro to Tec Instructor
- TDI Dry suit Instructor
User Levels
- DPV Cave Diver
- Multi-Stage Cave Diver
- Decompression Procedures Diver
- Advanced Nitrox Diver
- Scientific Diver
- CCR MOD 2 -Normoxic Trimix
- CCR MOD 3 Factory Approved Kiss Sidewinder-Hypoxic Trimix
- CCR Cave
Participant in the following exploration, expeditions publications and projects:
- 2018 -K1 Project Columbia University
- 2018-2020 -National Geographic Explorer – Mermaids Against Plastic film https://vimeo.com/372952803/bc16bafbe7
- 2017-2019 -Reef Restoration
- 2018 –Coralive.org Maldives reef restoration project
- 2020 – Cenote Ramón Resurvey Project
- 2020- Cave Corals Project
- 2020 – Odyssey Resurvey Project
- 2020- La Bendición Exploration Project
- 2020- Yucatán, La Noria Exploration Project
- 2021 – Cueva Aerolito Resurvey Project
- 2021 – Guest writer for diveintolife.com https://diveintolife.blog/manta-valley-diving-with-giant-manta-rays-in-cancun-mexico/
- 2021 – Collaboration With Shearwater https://www.shearwater.com/monthly-blog-posts/cave-corals-project/
- 2023 – Sunfish expedition to Southeast Alaska
- 2023 -Under the Jungle Science Week
- 2023 – divers24.com Oxygen Toxicity https://divers24.com/oxygen-toxicity-accident-autopsy/
- 2024 -Belize, Sistema Paloma exploration project
- 2024 -InDepth Magazine article “Yoga for Tech Divers”
- 2024 -DUIKEN Magazine (printed) “Transmitters of been transmitters, da’s de vraag!”
- 2024 -Shearwater Research Blog “Cenote Diving in Merida” https://shearwater.com/blogs/community/cenote-diving-in-merida