The ProTec Chronicles
Slow and Steady Wins the Race
Here in Mexico, as it is all over the world, and in any diving environment, You will often meet divers who dive beyond their certification because they do not want to take the time to hone the new skills. All they want to do is “The next cooler or bigger dive”. You...
A Brief History of The Cave Diving Line Arrow – The Forrest Wilson Story
Here at ProTec Dive Centers we are passionate about cave diving! And, we are massive geeks about cave diving history and technology. Recently, I sat in on Cristian Toro’s lesson on cave diving navigation. We got to talking about the history of cave markers and the...
A Cave Instructor’s Journey
Everyone’s journey is different, this is mine to date. I started diving at the age of 23. Knowing what I know now, it was later in life than I would have liked but at least I did! I tried it, I loved it, I worked hard and sold everything in order to move to a tropical...
A Cave Diving Odyssey – Team ProTec Crushes the Florida Cave Diving Scene
Four of ProTec Dive Centers’ team members embarked on a 10 day cave diving odyssey to Florida. What could possibly go wrong? Nothing, actually. Our team consisted of two Aussies (Tamara & Skanda), a Californian (John) and the Spaniard (Jaime). We checked in at...
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...