Cenote Girl - Cave Diving Instructor Mexico

17/12/2025

1 year ago 🙂

1 year ago Frenchman made me a Full Cave instructor at 🫶

If I remember well, a long evaluation dive where Vince impersonated student John Smith who was eager to learn but made not a small amount of 32 mistakes, out of which I debriefed 28, I skipped 2 and I missed 2. And that granted me the title after 3.5 years of being a trainee.

Patrick Widmann always told me that performing within your comfort zone is easy, if you can perform under unknown conditions and stepping out of that zone then you can show what you’re truly made of. And he was right.

Being evaluated by a tough instructor from a different school, different philosophy, different style and approach, never having trained with him, with such short notice and during a time of my life where building felt more like surviving, was the most terrifying thing of my career.

Those days learning and growing were amazing but I also have to say, the welcoming and warm spirit of Vince and Nat are the true highlight. I am just so grateful because being a cave instructor is difficult. Being a kind cave instructor is another level which I learned from them.

1 year anniversary ✅

14/12/2025

Episode 3 “Caves and Battlefields”

Dr. Trey Cole and I talk about the mental aspects of cave diving and ICE (Isolated, Confined and Extreme) environments.

Such a fun interview, especially because he asks me some really good questions. I thought I was the one interviewing him, wait a minute, is that what psychologists do? I think so!

Thanks a lot Trey for your time. I hope everyone enjoys this one as much as I did.

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Tech Diving On Air with Tamara Adame · Episode

11/12/2025

Summary 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣

This year I had a few objectives:

👉Take care of my mental health, I wanted to start therapy and work on myself.

👉Exercise consistently, I wanted to eat better, have follow up from a professional and have a routine.

👉Work in media (didn’t know which media but I wanted to work in what originally was my career -communication).

I started in January, in the order mentioned. I tackled my goals and worked on making the time, preserving energy for what I want to prioritize, focusing and recentering when I feel drained, learning to bring back my own attention to what matters.

I hired a trainer at the beginning of the year and for the first time I started liking exercise. Later I changed trainer and continued the path to learn what my body can do and how to also manage energy to do an activity after work. Training at the gym gave me the opportunity to learn about trust and also to develop technique, and I put myself in the student role again in something I am not very good at, many moments were hard but I had to trust the process just like I ask my students to do.

November came and I realized with the launch of I had actually ticked that last box. If you haven’t listened, link is my bio 😇

One thing I didn’t plan but happened which has been the cherry on the cake, is that I’m studying to be a transformational coach. Originally started it to understand more about the human behavior and emotions. The further I go, the more I understand that it all starts with how I see and shape the world around me.

I am looking forward to a year of growth, creativity, and new ventures. What are you putting on your plate in 2026? Share with me in the comments or PM 💌

Portrait

08/12/2025

It has been an intense week, month, year…

Who agrees?

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05/12/2025

Tech Diving on Air
Episode # 2 is out!

Exercise and diving🤿🏋️‍♀️⛹🏽‍♀️🤸
why is it a bad mix?

Dr. Darío Gómez from Costamed Grupo Médico runs the hyperbaric clinic and chamber in Cozumel.

In this episode we discuss current approved recommendations when it comes to diving and exercising, the effects that physical effort has on our diving before or after the dives and how to be fit when diving full time while staying safe.

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Tech Diving On Air with Tamara Adame · Episode

04/12/2025

“How much is too much?”

The title of my podcast episode on Tech Diving On Air with The Human Diver released last week raised some concerns that I’d like to address in the following video.

It’s important to talk about the difficult things, and with it comes the responsibility to ensure that what we say has meaning, value, and that it inspires the audience to make a change.

We have clearly started a conversation worth having and I look forward to continue doing that with the involvement of the dive community worldwide hoping that agencies will join and comment as well.

To anyone who perceived the title as misleading and/or offensive, I would ask you to pause for a moment, listen to the episode, and share your conclusions with us having more information than just the title.

We remain open to discuss, clarify and develop the concepts that will help us as a community be better than yesterday.

Here a list of related links and resources:

Episode 1 “How much is too much” with Gareth Lock
https://open.spotify.com/episode/76WRjgmOy3yfaAR1TY3zSH?si=zcgPadJ5TZ27hFL3QV7NOQ

Community survey by Business of Diving Institute
https://www.businessofdiving.com/sexual-harassment-scuba-industry

InDEPTH Magazine article
https://indepthmag.com/how-much-is-too-much-the-reality-of-sexual-abuse-in-the-dive-industry/

Girls That Scuba
“How to report sexual harassment in diving?”
https://www.girlsthatscuba.com/reporting-sexual-harassment-in-diving/

Change . Org petition to agencies
https://www.change.org/p/call-for-immediate-action-from-scuba-agencies-on-sexual-misconduct-harrassment-and-abuse

Tech Diving | On Air
Podcast

https://www.instagram.com/techdivingonair?igsh=dmEyYjdvYW5heDcw&utm_source=qr

Please tag your dive shop and agency and invite them to join the conversation.

29/11/2025

NEW:

Tec Diving On Air

First episode of my new podcast where I talk to The Human Diver about the human factor in sexual abuse and harassment cases in the diving industry.

The conversation was a much needed analysis on culture, social rules, standards, scuba agencies and their role, reporting structures, power dynamics, etc. We also talk about the community survey by the Business of Diving Institute and how this data helps us understand this as a global problem.

Not a topic everyone wants to cover but one the industry needs to talk about.

Make sure you share this with your dive buddy, instructor, dive shop and dive agency rep. Leave your comments in the comments.

Thanks for following and thanks for listening!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/76WRjgmOy3yfaAR1TY3zSH?si=d30f1de48b774591

Tech Diving On Air with Tamara Adame · Episode

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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