The ProTec Chronicles
Cave Survey and Cartography: The Key to a Deeper Connection
In December 2016, I managed to squeeze in a few days of Underwater Cave Survey and Cartography training with Kim Davidsson (ProTec manager, instructor, explorer) and Tamara (colleague, amazing diver, Melburnian). It was a great course (we expect nothing less from...
Behind The Lights
As people live and work in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, it may be unknown to some that we are standing on top of thousands of years history. Atop of what was once a vast coral platform, now a flooded underwater maze of rivers and passageways, so beautiful people...
Lelle’s Eurotrip – 2016 Part III (Slovakia)
Let’s travel back a few weeks in time and reexamine my ending statement/question from the last article shall we… “Do you think Google maps has any clue to time management in terms of distance???” Well, by now you probably already guessed it. The answer to that...
Lelle’s Eurotrip – 2016 Part II (Hungary)
And so the journey continues! The Viking team gathered, sights are set due south for central Europe, Budapest Hungary to be exact. After returning from the Mumin Valley in Finland, this adventure also originates from the center of universe, Malmö Sweden. First leg of...
Lelle’s Eurotrip – 2016 Part I (Finland)
Living in beautiful Tulum is a great thing. Having the closeness to all the caves and the Mexican way of life is awesome! But going back to the roots from time to time is equally awesome. This summer I headed back to Europe for some super nice cave and mine diving....
Cave Diving France/Spain Tour 2016
As a passionate cave diver and traveller I have to admit that there is nothing like combining both passions. Just thinking about going to a different part of the world to do what I love the most makes my day. I´m sure many of the readers can relate to this when...
Ponderosa: Bringing Old School Back!
As a local Technical Cave Instructor from ProTec Dive Centres, I spend an awful amount of time at this Cenote. The reason for this is, ITS PERFECT for everything you need in a dive. If your Cavern or Intro level it has some amazing cave in the River Run. If your Full...
CCR Cave Diving – Don’t believe the hearsay!
As an avid rebreather diver, and self-proclaimed cave geek, there is no better environment to combine both of my passions. There are a lot of people who say that Mexico is not the place for CCR diving. They say it’s too shallow, too decorated, or even too small....
Madagascar Cave Diving: The ultimate challenge – Part One
Like so many great stories, it all began with a phone call. “Hey what’s up man, I got some intel on caves in Madagascar we should go! Worst thing that can happen, it’s going to be an epic surf trip!” https://player.vimeo.com/video/145062347 After Phillip and I had...
Dive “666”
The majority of people will assume that “666” is the number of dives made. In this case, it is the amount of minutes spent on ONE dive, THE DIVE! The idea behind this dive was to make a 666-minute cave dive, which roughly translates to an 11-hour bottom time. The...