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Who We Are
 
 


  - ADAM'S BACKGROUND


Adam Korytko


Born in England, he spent most of his life in Italy.

In 1986, he graduated from the European Business School in London with a specialization in Finance.

He joined London Forfaiting Company PLC in London, where he began trading international trade finance receivables.

In 1987, he moved to the Milan subsidiary, where he structured export finance packages for Italian manufacturers of capital goods. He became a company director in 1991.

In 1996, he returned to the London head office and traded the portfolio of assets originated in the Milan, Paris and Barcelona subsidiaries. He was responsible for sales and marketing in the Middle East and Africa.

In 2001, he became a freelance translator of financial documents for listed Italian companies.

While living in Europe, he actively pursued technical diving in the lakes of northern Italy and wreck diving in the Mediterranean and the North Sea.

In 2004, he joined Ela in Florida and their lives changed when they started cave diving.

They decided to move immediately to Mexico to pursue their passion and early 2006 start their own cave diving company and began their apprenticeship to become NSS-CDS cave instructors under the mentorship of some of the best cave diving instructors and explorers in the Riviera Maya and Florida.

2007 - became NSS-CDS Basic Cave instructors
2008 - became NSS-CDS Cave instructors.
2010 - became UTD (Unified Team Diving) Cave instructors.
2011 - became UTD Cave Gold (Stage), Cave Scooter and Advanced Sidemount Cave instructors.

         
 
EXPLORATION PROJECTS

Cenote Divino
(Puerto A. area, 2007, surveyed passages 330mt/1082 ft, max depth 25.6 mt/84 ft, 1 cenote)
Sistema Ixchel (Puerto A. area, 2008, surveyed passages 1887 mt/6192 ft, max depth 20.4 mt/67 ft, 3 cenotes connected)
Sistema K'u Pix (Puerto A. area, 2009, 459 mt/1506 ft, max depth 5.8 mt/19 ft, 3 cenotes connected)

Current project in Tulum: build our own dive center and equipment retail shop in order to organize cave/tech courses, logistics for divers, other teams and/or instructors.
We will provide you with all you need for a super cave diving vacation here in the Riviera Maya.


 
DIVING QUALIFICATIONS


UTD Cave Gold (Stage) instructor
UTD Cave Scooter instructor
UTD Advanced Sidemount Cave instructor
UTD Cave Diver instructor
UTD Overhead Protocols instructor
UTD Essentials Instructor (of Rec, Tech and Overhead)
UTD Rec 1, 2, 3 instructor
UTD Nitrox instructor
NSS-CDS Cave Instructor #364
UTD Trimix 1 diver
NSS-CDS DPV diver
NSS CDS Stage diver
NSS-CDS Sidemount diver
NSS-CDS Abe Davis Safe Cave Diving Award recipient
APSA official cavern and cave guide of Yucatan
Emergency First Response Instructor

DAN Oxygen Provider



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