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You love large fish and the strong feelings!
Every summer, from June to September, come to swim with the whale sharks.
Every winter, come to dive with spotted eagles rays and bulldog sharks, guaranteed 100% till March.
Divings emotions ensured
by Phocea Mexico !
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Here’s june and it’s probably time for you to set your summer vacations. If you haven’t thougt of something special yet, why not coming over to Mexico ?
You may have been already around here, but this country always has something new for you to discover and to enjoy. Summer time is the best time for spotting out whale sharks, and even though you may not believe it, this is a 100% guarantied experience. The snorkeling of a lifetime, in a very unique place, with the biggest fish in the world…Just pure enjoyment, emotions and happiness.
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For us, at Phocea, happiness is the most important thing, our objective being to make you a happier person by sharing our passion for this country, by sharing our passion for the oceans and scuba diving.
It’s why we‘re always looking for some new products, for new experiences for you to live. At the moment we’re seeking the way to bring you something never seen before, a very cutting edge diving product, a one week diving live aboard in the Mexican Caribeans. We believe it would be the best way for you to enjoy the wonders laying just beneath your fins….think of wandering between Spanish galions shipwrecks in Banco Chinchorro, floating around colorful schools of tropical fish in Xcalac ( a pristine marine reserve close to Belize) before dropping down the cristal clear depths of Cozumel walls, admiring then the dance of eagle rays around Puerto Morelos shipwreck on the way up to some very tropical dives in Cancun’s marine park. Rinsing your equipment could be nothing less exciting than enjoying a day of cavern dives in the famous Mexican cenotes, before finally releasing nitrogen visiting one of the most amaising mayan ruins around the area.
At the moment, this is the idea we are working on, looking for the right partners to provide you with the best service, or this dream will never come to birth… But if we talk to you about it, you can be sure we already have a very precise picture in mind.
Of course keep checking out our newsletter, we will maintain you up to date with the evolution of our project. We really hope it will be for you a great experience as a diver.
And otherwise, why not coming over in September or October? Low season meaning more relaxed Mexican fun, quieter places and lower prices all around.
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By the way, we always like to improve things by hearing from your ideas, comments and suggestions. So don’t hesitate to contact our professionals, and we will make everything possible to fit your needs and to make your wishes come true.
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And yes, you are not dreaming, if you do your IDC with us, you will know the more than famous Garden of Eden…. !!
The Garden of Eden, alias Ponderosa, is in fact a cenote that presents the characteristics of an open water spot and in which take place the open water presentations of the candidates instructors during the IE (Instructor Examination). |
We must admit that this cenote is wonderfully named as, once arrived, the spot offers a breathtaking view onto its cristal clear water. Obviously, cristal clear waters in the surroundings are not really what we miss the most and it is not really enough to turn it into an « Heaven’s garden ». But, the luxurious vegetation and the magic of the singing birds contribute generously in making it a paradise.
Nonetheless, do not misunderstand our point, we are there to work. Yes, we can promise that during your IDC, you will have the opportunity to dive twice in this magnificent environment. After these two dives, it will be much easier for you to be ready and serene on the D day : you cannot be more prepared to get into the professional diving world.
So, if you wish to discover our Mexican Garden of Eden and if you are thinking about participating to the IDC, do not hesitate anymore, just get in touch with us.
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Personalized Service and Top Quality during your IDC. With Phocea Mexico, it is possible. We certainly had the pleasure to welcome you and make you dive. In this case, we wholeheartedly hope that you spent an unforgettable stay with us, feeling as if you were home.
This quality of service that we particularly want to follow and respect when you are planning a stay among us, we also impose ourself to offer you the very same level of quality for all our other activities, including our professional courses.
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This is the reason why participating to an IDC with us means you are pretty sure to receive an irreproachable service and quality.
Our Course Director and our IDC Staffs are much experienced trainers, as well regarding scuba diving and pedagogy as regarding the scuba diving industry and its organization (all the commercial and logistic aspects).
A few numbers concerning our IDC team :
- more than 10.000 dives
- more than 8.000 hours spent underwater
- more than 2.000 recreational certifications
- more than 300 professional certifications
- 10 years of experience here in Mexico
Even if we do trust our IDC team in its wholeness, you will always have the opportunity to get a better training from our Course Director in order to ensure you the highest level of success during your examination and in your future career. This will to offer a top quality service is reflected by the fact we schedule several IDC sessions by year.
Indeed, in order not to overload our classes and go on offering the best conditions of studies we can, we had scheduled 5 sessions for this year and we have already completed 5 in 6 months. On which purpose ?? To offer you the best conditions for an efficient course. Camille, oOur Course Director personally takes care of you, his sudent, and not of an overloaded class.
So, do not hesitate anymore and make your dream come true… Become a scuba Instructor in the Caribbean under the sun, with white sand beaches and warm water.
Next IDC sesion :
- EFRI - 11 & 12 september
- IDC - from 13 till 23 september
- IE - from 25 till 26 september
- IDC STAFF - from 11 till 23 september
- MSDT - from 28 september till 01 october
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| June: 2 IDC for just one month |
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While I am writing these few lines, this is the very beginning of our second IDC of the month.
From June the 1st, we had begun a session in Spanish with a quite cosmopolitan class as our candidates came from different parts of the world to participate to our IDC : Chile, Argentina, Spain, Mexico and Texas.
On June the 14th, the Frenchies began their scuba diving teaching training.
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The goal : turn themselves into PADI Scuba Diving Instructors on June the 29th, and so, be able to live from and for their passion.
To all of them : be courageous and keep working on your training and examination till the more than waited D day.
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It seems that more and more people are interested in underground diving and especially diving in Yucatan caves that are, for the ones who know them, the Promised Land of cave diving, a little bit like Hawaii for surfing, or the Himalaya for alpinism : the Holy Grail, a goal in itself, in short.
Diving in the Yucatan peninsula is without any doubt THE best thing to do for a great bunch of reasons. Here follow a few of them : |
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The availability :
The Yucatan peninsula is really like a geological piece of Gruyere, where the entire flow of fresh water is underground. From time to time, a collapse due to natural erosion creates an opening onto this « underworld » as Mayan people call it, offering this way access to the vastness and diversity of these underground rivers (through the so well known « cenotes »). According to the N.A.S.A., there would be more than 5000 cenotes in the peninsula. It allows us to have access to many spots, quite diversified, in a very little time, a few of them are even located in Playa del Carmen downtown. Yes, I know it sounds incredible. so this is the end of the long and exhausting ways for hours to get to an insulated cavity.
The accessibility :
Specific accesses have been arranged in the majority of the most famous spots, the owners are engaged in the conservation of « their » cenotes, a constant temperature all year long, 77°F, and mostly shallow dives. So many conditions put together so that your training is focused on spending as much as time as possible underwater, inside the matter itself, ensuring so an optimization of the specific technics of underground diving. This is the end of the training dives that last 3 hours, including two and a half during the decompression stop !!! Here, with us, you will spend this additional time working on and improving your buoyancy, the pre-dive processes and you will make during this course penetrations whose distance would give so many dreams of cave diving to more than one speleological diver in Europe.
The diversity :
A good diver is first an experimented diver and what could be better than diversifying the situations to get experimented ?
As each underground network has its own « personality, you will usually begin your training in an environment which is not really fragile and relatively easy : very wide passages, cristal clear visibility, what will allow you to apply the specific processes and equipment to this activity in a controlled ambient, to go then towards longer and longer penetrations, in narrower and more technical passages. But with more and more fascinating landscapes. No other place in the world can offer you as much as contrast in such a concentrated area.
The technics :
Whatever beforehand may think many underground divers, the Mexican underground dives are not easier than in the rest of the world, they admittedly present many advantages, but also many specific dangers : the traversed distance during these dives requires a quite precise plan, it is indeed quite easy to traverse tens of hundreds feet with relatively little gas. but in case of emergency, the way back becomes quite more complicated.
The great number of interconnected galleries and their, at least labyrinthian ramifications require cutting edge navigation technics, that will make you then see many of the Old World spots as bare corridors.
The fragility of the speleothems (stalagtites, helictites, stalagmites, columns, basins) and of the sediment imposes here pure and almost perfect buoyancy, propulsion technics and configurations in order not to damage them, but also to keep correct visibility on the way back, guarantee of your safety. Here more than elsewhere, rigour and precision are required. And, these technics will make you become a quite better diver in open water (this is the end of the flippers onto the coral reef or even the need of your hands to go backward. Yes this specific technic makes part of the course !….).
And actually Wonderland :
Once your couse over, it is not really useful to come and come back 30 times in the galleries where you have followed your course, the beauty and the secrets of the Yucatan peninsula immersed networks, their historical and geological herancy will allow any of you to find in their deepness your happiness : a large and technical dive in Chan Hol, the mysticism of sunrays in the cenote Heaven’s Gates, restrictions with black stalagtites in Minotauro, billions year old fossils in Cenote Cristalino. Or a sample of everything in Cenote Ponderosa. So, the limits are just the ones of your own dreams. And I am pretty sure it will be hard for you to consider underground diving differently from its Mexican touch !!!
Come and discover these wonders and ask us the schedule of the next Full Cave session with Phocea Mexico.
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