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| Welcome to the Phocea space dedicated to PADI professional courses
Our dive centre is located in Playa del Carmen, in the Yucatan peninsula, on the « Riviera Maya » at 65km away to the South from Cancun International airport. Phocea is the only PADI Gold Plam Instructor Development Centre in Playa del Carmen. This Mexican coast has a climate quite well adapted to scuba diving, the water is warm, clear with a very good visibility. This allows to dive almost all year long in excellent conditions. The dives are varied and well adapted to several specialities, for example the drift dive (for the sea) and the cavern diver speciality (in the famous Yucatan cenotes, there are so many in this part of Mexico and they are so close to the dive centre). |
The Phocea team Martine and Didier, with their French-Mexican team will be proud to welcome you to offer the best of Phocea. Serious, dynamic and impassioned professionnals who will always be listening to you and available in order to make your stay and your course unforgettable. The guides and instructors speak English, French and Spanish and are all of them certified by scuba diving organizations internationally recognized. |
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PADI scuba diving instructor
Make scuba diving your job becoming a PADI scuba diving instructor, doing your training in the hotel swimming pool first and then in the warm and turquoise coloured waters of the Caribbean Sea. |
Phocea Mexico accommodation: the Plaza hotel The Plaza Hotel is located just opposite the diving center, a two-minute walk from the beach. The hotel has 30 comfortable recently renovated and decorated rooms equipped with 2 double beds, air-conditioning, ceiling fan, bathroom, safety deposit box, TV and mini-bar. The Plaza Hotel is the perfect place to stay in a quiet and pleasant atmosphere and to be able to work and study your courses and examinations.
The accommodation is based on a bedroom share between students, please contact us if you wish to have a single bedroom. Visit the Plaza Hotel web site. |
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Phocea Mexico joins the Sea Shepherd! After having been granted the Ambassador Center « Longitude 181 Nature » certification and involving ourselves to respect the international responsible diver declaration, Phocea Mexico gives a step forward towards the ecosystem protection supporting the action of the Sea Shepherd! Founded in 1977, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) is an international non-profit organization that is dedicated to the underwater fauna and flora conservation. Its mission is to fight against marine bottoms destruction and species massacre in all the oceans of the world, and also to set up concrete measures to preserve the ecosystem. The Sea Shepherd stands out with the use of direct actions to expose to everyone the illegal activities taking place in the high seas and destroy them. The Sea Shepherd is indeed engaged in the safeguard of the ecosystem biodiversity for next generations. |
Paul Watson founded the Sea Shepherd, he was born in Toronto (Canada) in 1950. In the 70’s, he made him known as a Greenpeace sea-man and militant. In total dissension with the leading authorities of the organization, he decided to do it on his own in 1977 with the creation of Earthforce Environmental Society. His first campaign lead him to West Africa in 1978 to protect elephants. This species is then seriously threatened by poachers and the ivory business. At the end of that year, Watson acquired the British trawler Westella that he renamed Sea Shepherd. This very same name became the one of the organization in 1981.
The denunciation of the whales massacre in Siberia from 1981, the fight against the massive slaughter of seals in the Saint-Laurent Gulf (Canada) destinated to the cosmetic industry, the opposition to the suffering of sturgeons destinated to the illegal business of caviar, as well as the sharks’ one that are just thrown back to the sea near Taiwan after having wildly their fins cut. It has been now 30 years that Sea Shepherd has been leading its action all over the seas. So many fights with just one common purpose : protect and respect species. Sensitive to the environmental questions and to the preservation of the ecosystem, Phocea Mexico has actually decided to support Sea Shepherd’s actions. We have signed an agreement with this organization to transfer it 2$ (USD) per diver we welcome. Sea Shepherd’s logotype will accompany from now on Phocea Mexico’s one. Moreover, we are going to improve the way we work in-house in order to sensitize at the highest level the divers regarding the importance of the environment protection. We also are thinking about, among other things, evoking systematically these topics during our pre-dive briefings, but also scheduling beach cleans-up. And many more actions to set up along weeks. |
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