Welcome to the Phocea’s space dedicated to Tec Diving.

Our dive centre is located in Playa del Carmen, in the Yucatan peninsula, on the « Riviera Maya », 65km to the South from Cancun International Airport. Phocea is the only PADI Gold Plam Instructor Development Centre in Playa del Carmen. The guides and Instructors spek English, french and spanish and all of them are recognized by worldwide dive organizations.

This Mexican coast has a quite well adapted climate for diving, the water is warm and cristal clear, what allows to dive almost all year long in excellent conditions. The dives are diversified and well adapted for any tec dive : from « El Cantil », the fault located between Playa del Carmen and Cozumel to the magick of the Yucatan cenotes, which are so many in this area of Mexico and are also so close to the dive centre.

We propose all DSAT (PADI tec branch) tec trainings with the following courses : TEC 40, TEC 45, TEC 50, TEC 65, Trimix and TEC Trimix Diver but also all the TDI Cave courses with the Cavern, the Intro to Cave and the Full Cave.

We also propose packages, combining different courses in one schedule, with just the courses or also all included with accommodation at our hotel Colibri and meals.

If you have already had a Full Cave certification from a recognized dive organization, you may wish to go and explore the cenotes, to go somewhere almost nobody has ever been et to experience a wonderful moment of Mayan history visiting an underground rivers network where you will be able to see Mayan vestiges such as pottery in an incredible cristal clear water.

You wish to make a Trimix dive on the fault between Playa and Cozumel, to be impressed by a gigantic wall in a warm and quite clear water, feel free to contact us.

The Phocea team

Martine, Didier and their French-Mexican team will be proud to welcome you offering the best of Phocea. Serious, dynamic and impassioned professionals who will always be listening to you and available to make your stay and your course an unforgettable experience.

Vincent is in charge of the Phocea Tec activities, you will meet an impassioned person by the cenotes and the tec dives. Always wishing to diversify his activities with the greatest professionalism possible, Phocea set up this activity with Pascal Bernabé (world recordman of the deepest scuba dive : 330m). Phocea is the only dive centre in Yucatan that is able to propose all the recreational, professional and tec training courses as well as in English, French or Spanish.

Phocea Accommodation : the Colibri Hotel

The Colibri Hotel is located just near the dive centre, this is one of the onliest hotel in the centre of Playa with direct access to the beach !

It is composed by 33 cosy bedrooms, with air conditioning and/or fan, safe, Queen size bed. Depending on the category you choose, you will enjoy a view onto the sea, the tropical garden (that surrounds the hotel) or onto the street. Colibri Hotel is the perfect place to stay in a quiet and pleasant atmosphere to be able to work and study your courses and examinations.

The accommodation is based on a shared bedroom between students, please contact us if you wish to have a single bedroom. For any further information, we invite you to go and see the Colibri Hotel website.