ProTec Dive Center Team
Playa del Carmen
Our ProTec team in Playa del Carmen consists of three full time instructors Nando, Patrick and Matt. One additional full time staff member Rosalba to keep our dive center & training facility running smoothly with daily operation.
Our staff of full time employees is dedicated to the service of our customers, and we schedule our staff according to our customers needs. We are not a sales agent for divers needs, we are a complete in house service provider. Our part time employees are guides and Instructors who live and dive in the area and their field of expertiese for years to ensure quality service and customer satisfaction.
Rosalba Garcia
Rosalba Garcia is a face that most people who have come into our store knows well. She has been with us since the day we opened in the year of 2000 and is still taking care of us all.
You will find her in the retail area, doing the paperwork, making orders, and making all the daily motions of the store work smoothly.
Please don't hesitate to email Rosalba if you have any questions or need assistance.
Fernando del Valle Prieto
Fernando del Valle Prieto was born in Mexico City, live and studied there untill he decide to take some time off and learn to scuba dive. He decided to travel to Playa del Carmen to learn. This was his first touch to the world of diving, and he decided then to make diving his career and focus of his life. For the last 10 Nando has worked in Southern Mexico teaching and guiding divers in Playa del Carmen, Akumal and Cozumel. Five years ago he decided to take up cave diving, he was trained by Scott who past his passion for the caves to Nando.
Ever since he has spend his time working towards his future goal of being a Technical Cave Instructor. Nando speaks fluently English and Spanish and can do some needed explanations in Italian. When not out diving you will find him in the store helping out customers with their needs and taking care of the rental and retail gear for everyone.
Please don't hesitate to email Nando if you have any questions or need assistance.
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Patrick Widmann
Patrick Widmann is originally from Austria, where he also discovered early his passion for diving. About 7 years ago he moved to Egypt to turn it into his full time occupation. For the next years he was working for big companies teaching all levels of recreational diving including Instructor courses. In his spare time he started with deep mixed gas diving along the deep walls and canyons of the Red Sea as well as exploring its many wrecks. In 2005 he came the first time to Mexico and got immediately hooked on Cave diving and finally moved here in 2007.
Some of the favorite locations that he currently guides and teaches include: The Caves of the Riviera Maya, the Deep Caves of Yucatan, the deep wall in front of Playa del Carmen and the C-52 Wreck outside of Puerto Morelos.
Courses can be taught in English, German and French. He is very active in the support of community diving projects and regularly can be found mixing gases for these projects and other much larger exploration initiatives.
Please don't hesitate to email Patrick if you have any questions or need assistance.
For more information about Patrick please click here
Andreas W. Matthes
Andreas W. Matthes or known to most people as Matt is the founding member and owner of the ProTec Dive Center & Advanced Training Facility. Along with daily operations of the facility he is our training director and special projects director. Originally from Germany; he has lived, worked and dove throughout Germany, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Honduras, Egypt, Northern and Southern United States, Soloman Islands, Eastern Caribbean, Belize, Pacific and Eastern Mexico.
Matt has been training divers since 1993 and has certified hundreds of divers to various levels of training. Some of the favorite locations that Matt currently guides and teaches include the deep walls off Cozumel, the caves and caverns of the Riviera Maya, the Deep Caves of Yucatan, the deep walls of the Honduran Bay Islands and wrecks and deep walls along the Mexican Pacific coast.
Courses can be taught in German, English, and Spanish. His community puts him in the front line of regional developments and is a regular contributor to global cave diving discussions. An APSA Guide Instructor and Guide.
Please don't hesitate to email Matt if you have any questions or need assistance.
For more information about Matt please click here