The ProTec Team
The ProTec team is composed of handpicked, highly motivated and extremely talented individuals who excel at delivering world class service and instruction in technical cave diving in Mexico and abroad. Our team is a solid pod of cave diving instructors and trainees. But he ProTec Team is not only composed of divers, we have a full powerhouse behind us that really makes ProTec Mexico’s Premier Cave Diving Facility. Scroll down and meet each of them and how they are an asset to our team!
Patrick
Patrick is from Austria and is one of the owners of ProTec Dive Centers. He is a PSAI Instructor Trainer for CCR Cave, DPV, Trimix and Sidemount and holds Instructor Trainer Evaluator Status for certain levels. He is one of the creators of the PSAI CCR Cave class and the co-designer of the XDeep Stealth 2.0 and Sidewinder II.
Kim
Kim was born in Sweden and is one of the owners of ProTec Dive Centers. He can be found mostly in Tulum running the shop and the Basecamp accommodation facility. He is a cave diving instructor and teaches various overhead specialties. Kim has lived and worked in Tulum since 2003. His true passion in life is cave exploration.
Rosalba
Jake
Jake is originally from Canada and he’s the youngest member of our cave diving instructors team, but don’t let that fool you! His drive and dedication as a cave diving instructor inspires the rest of us to be our at best and perform at the highest level every day.
Skanda
When he is not traveling the world diving caves, he is at home in Tulum, hiking the jungle to find new caves and teaching the next generation of cave divers how it’s done. Skanda is one of the most active explorers in Mexico and one of ProTec’s senior cave diving instructors.
Elliot
Elliot hails from England, growing up on an island surrounded by water he discovered diving as a child. A pure educator at heart and one of Protec’s senior cave diving instructors, he finds the most distinguished ways of describing skills and drills to his students.
Tamara
Born and raised in Quintana Roo, naturally Tamara has grown up in and around the water. The Mexican cave instructor on our team; she has a passion for diving that is infectious. She teaches in Spanish, English and French.
Maria
Maria is originally from Kamchatka, grew up in Ukraine and first moved to Mexico in 2014 for cave diving. She is passionate about caves both dry and flooded, and always curious to explore the new ones. She’s training to be a cave instructor.
Marc
Marc is from Zurich, Switzerland and joined the ProTec team in 2022. Every day you can find him at one of our locations bright and early packing to go on a dive or guiding at one of his favorite cenotes. He is in training to become a full cave instructor.
Steve
Steve is from the US, has been coming to ProTec for a few years and joined our team in 2022 after several trips as a cave student. Steve has a passion for the less traveled cave lines!
Alessandro
Alessandro is Italian, from Verona. He is looking forward to become a cave diving instructor with ProTec. He has experience in outdoor sports and rescue and is an active CrossFit athlete.
Mekan
Hailing from Madrid, Alvaro (aka Mekan) is our professional in-house photographer and an awarded international photographer. You can find his amazing work throughout our social media channels.
Toro
Toro was born in Chile and is the General Manager of ProTec Dive Centers. Toro has worked as a cave diving instructor before moving into a management role. He oversees all operations for both our facilities.
Nelson
Melqui
Rebeca
Rebecca is our housekeeper – the shop, compressor room and Basecamp are always tidy thanks to her. She may be quiet but will always greet you with a smile and will make sure the shop is spotless every day.
Néstor
Néstor is Rosalba’s youngest brother and Playa’s store manager. He learned to run the shop on the job, with great influence from his siblings and colleagues, he has become essential to the operations in Playa.
Carlos
Tío
Tío is in charge of building services and spends his time between Playa and Tulum making sure our facilities are always on point!