Dear ProTec Friends
We are back with our Sporadic Newsletter covering diving, training, local affairs and social activities from and within our ProTec Dive Center in Playa del Carmen, Mexico.
We are located within the Riviera Maya along the Mexican Caribbean coast and we certainly have good reef and wreck diving but our biggest treasure within the Riviera Maya are the Cenotes and Caves. The crystal clear warm water in the Cenotes is the most special feature in our diving here. Our services range from Cenote guiding, Cavern diving and cave diving either open circuit or close circuit.
We are located within Mom’s Hotel and offer our divers special rates in this small, clean and economic 27 room hotel. As you stay in Moms hotel you have the comfort of knowing your dive gear is never far from you with special ventilated storage areas.
Greetings
Your ProTec Team
ProTec Dive Center Playa del Carmen – Mexico www.protecplaya.com
The ProTec Blog
After launching our Blog under www.protecblog.com we really enjoy writing about our adventures, courses, experiences as well as equipment and training related issues.
As we cover a wide range of experiences, view points and issues we cover a variety of languages as well. We publish articles in English, German, Spanish and French.
We invite guest writes who dive with us to share their experiences with us or the within the Riviera Maya. Please come on in and join us with our blog.
BTS Show New Jersey
ProTec Dive Center had a booth at the 2010 Beneath The Sea dive trade show held annually in March within the New Jersey convention center.
Hans Kaspersetz, a good friend of ours and avid rebreather cave diver who just returned back to the U.S. to live in New Jersey was helping out big time on the booth.
The show was good with a lot of old friends passing by and new friends to be made. Besides the information about our diving destination we offered seat and sugar for the weary, juice and water for the thirsty, apples, bananas and granola bars for the hungry and a shot of Tequila for the wicked.
Upcoming Events
ProTec is going to the Tacoma Dive Show in Washington State in the Seattle area. We do have a booth # 524 and Matt will be manning the booth. If your feet are tired, you are thirsty, need some food or a shot of Tequila please pass by. We will raffle a cavern course at the end of the show.
For upcoming courses please have a look at our www.protecplaya.com web page where we have listed all scheduled training programs. Besides the courses posted on our web page we offer custom courses at all times, starting a training programs when you have the time and like to do it.
ProTec is a sponsor for the Riviera Maya Dive Alliance bi-monthly social pool side BBQ held at the Abyss pool on the first and second Saturday of each month. Come by and check it out.
ProTec is a co-organizer and co-host of the annual Xcuba Ha underwater photo contest and competition. This year’s event will be held December 4th – 11th of 2010. Check out our web site under www.divingphotocontest.com.
Training
We run quarterly IANTD IDC Instructor programs ranging from Cavern Instructor to CCR Cave Instructor. If you are interested please do not hesitate to contact us by email at any time.
After a number of Instructor meetings we have further developed our basic and advanced sidemount cave diver training program as well as the technical cave diver training program. Our basic and advanced DPV courses are still under review. The further development of our existing courses is based on new techniques and technologies in cave diving and cave diver training.
We, the instructors of ProTec, are taking continuing education training programs to further our horizon and the ability to teach a more diversified customer base. Patrick was taking the GUE Fundamentals course as preparation for future GUE cave diver and tec diver training. Matt took the CCR cross over training programs for the CCR rEvo and CCR Sentinel Rebreathers in order to be able to teach a larger group of CCR divers who are interested in CCR cave diver training. Nando will soon finish up his Classic KISS CCR diver program and will further develope his sidemount cave diving skills while taking a advanced sidemount cave diver course from an expeience sidemount cave diving instructor.
Exploration…
Nando is cave exploring with Mauro in the cave system Misterio Maya where they have re-surveyed existing guideline in order to establish how large the cave system is. After the re-survey they are going to start to push and explore the cave sustem. At the moment the Misterio Maya cave system is at a surveyed length of 1994 feet – 608 meters.
Patrick is cave exploring with Mauro in the Balan Ak cave system which is currently surveyed to a lenght of 8981 feet – 2738 meters. Cenote 307 is still being explored by Patrick and he is planning to go back to the Pit in June of 2010.