Cenote Girl - Cave Diving Instructor Mexico

22/11/2025

The Canyon 🏜️

On many exploration dives there is a moment that we hate and love. The moment we cut the line and have to turn around.

Often times we look into the darkness ahead. The tunnels going big. What is waiting for me over there? I won’t know until next time. When we cut the line we get to see where we’re going next time. It’s saying goodbye being sure we’ll meet again.

The Canyon was once the end of line, one End Of Line we will remember. Because we found it at the end of a dive almost at the end of the first project. We had to wait to go back and it required extending our bailout, our dive time and our mental prep.

After the canyon, we uncovered the next big section of cave which now becomes our projects focus. Finding an entrance in this area would be just what we need.

Stay tuned for Vanilla Farm Spam coming up. We’re starting the engines 🚀

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Thanks to everyone who roots for us, mentors us and supports our project in any way 🙏🏼

20/11/2025

Les Plongeurs Padawan m’ont interviewé l’été dernier et voici le résultat! Plus d’une heure de conversation autour de la plongée technique, le Mexique, les Cenotes, es aussi quelques histoires sur mon parcours tel que mon passage en Europe et mes projets. Et tout ca, en Français!!

Un énorme merci à tous ceux qui écoutent cet épisode, n’hésitez pas à les suivre et partager!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5YkEYIGnQwOM9IqPgrFjBk?si=9-jAacmoRuqYE7GcBSKpMw&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A6Z8C5j0w9sw2f4lxqN8pWx

Les Plongeurs Padawan, le podcast de la plongée sous-marine · Episode

19/11/2025

Ce matin c’est live! Podcast avec ✌️ m’a interviewé l’été dernier et vous pouvez écouter sur Spotify (link sur mon profil), évidement en français 🇫🇷

Mon parcour, mes aventures, mes formations et mon style d’ensegnement, ainsi que le rôle des femmes dans le monde de la plongée tech.

Partagez un max et dites nous si vous aimez cet épisode!!!

Merci, merci!!

16/11/2025

Instructor, friend, advisor, mentor, boss, exploration buddy, devils advocate, Mexican slang expert, legend, SMF… happy birthday 🎂

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16/11/2025

The next generation is not “next”, it’s actually the Present Generation.

Awesome read by Indonesian explorer Kirana Raditya 🧭

Becoming a cave diver is more than just earning a certification—it is the manifestation of persistence, belief, and the refusal to let limitations bury a dream. See what it takes to inspire the next generation of cave explorers in our new article: https://shearwater.com/blogs/community/beyond-exploring

13/11/2025

Cave diving adventures, well… are there any other type of adventures? 😜

Putting together a program for 2026:

January: Merida
February: Sidemount and Full Cave
March: Merida
April: 🤫

What would you like to see in my calendar next year? Tell me in the comments!

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03/11/2025

Reason #1 to sign up for a tech class:

👉Your buoyancy is not great and you can’t hover without moving 👈

Yes you read that right!

If this is the case, you need a tech instructor to teach you!

I believe it’s the wrong approach to dismiss a student who doesn’t have good buoyancy at the beginning of a class. Being real, most people, including experienced instructors, don’t have good buoyancy control when it comes to cave diving techniques.

A good technical diving class will improve your level whatever that is. So if you have problems with buoyancy at recreational level you can:

A) ask a tech instructor to teach you basic skills like Buoyancy, Trim and Position

B) enroll in an entry level tech class such as Intro to Tech, Open Water Sidemount or Fundamentals

What is your biggest problem when it comes to buoyancy in any configuration? Tell me in the comments 👇

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01/11/2025

It’s a hard one 🖤

Today we celebrate the Dead in Mexico. Día de Mu***os, a time to welcome those who parted back onto our space, our dimension, our table and our homes.

A very powerful tradition that keeps us connected and shines light on our lives and those lived by our friends and family members who passed.

This year, a particularly hard one for me. Mourning the loss of friends, my dog, and somewhat realizing that at our age we have different awareness of life. It’s not that more people die or more people leave, but we realize more the effect that it has on us and we give a different meaning to living.

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Photo #2 me and Choco
Photo #3 my dear friend Michael Menduno who is laughing out loud way high in the Universe.

28/10/2025

I like wet… rust 🤘

Cheating on caves with wrecks form time to time, can you guess which one this is?

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