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As a certified cave diver, as you know, a guide is not compulsory to perform cave diving. However, many cenote owners in this area now require to be accompanied by a local cave diving guide. We also recommend that you consider hiring a professional cave diving guide who is familiar with the cave systems and knows how to make the dive safe and pleasant.

Considering that your stay is limited to a few days, there is only so much you can do during that brief time. Realistically, it would take you months if not years to tour and explore all underwater caves of the Riviera Maya...and, as you can imagine, some caves are better than others.

So, if you wish to see the best caves, it is wise to use a guide who can decide where to go that suits your interest and level of ability instead of you wasting your valuable time and air searching for the main permanent line, or the offshoot line to a particular passage or room, or going the wrong direction. Our knowledgeable and competent guides can take you straight to specific locations or areas in the cave system giving you the opportunity to see the best of what the cave system has to offer.

Another reason for seeking a guide, and which we believe should also be a major concern of all cave divers, is to help protecting the fragile underwater cave environment. Cave divers who are not familiar with the cave system can inflict needless damage to the cave environment. Diving into dead-end areas anywhere beyond the main passageways is an unnecessary risk and burden to the fragile cave. Our guides, having the knowledge and experience of every cave system, allow you to tour and explore each cave system with minimal impact on it.

We hope the above reasons will help you in your decision-making. Our guides are always available to make your diving safe and pleasant. The decision to make your dives enjoyable, relaxing, and productive is yours!