Phocea Mexico
Dive Center
🌏 Mexico – Playa del Carmen
🌊 Activities : Leisure training, Scuba diving certifications, Exploration dives, Training / technical dive, Cave diving
🤿 Teaching languages : French, English, Spanish, Italian
📞 Reservation languages : French, English, Spanish
🟢 Nitrox available : Available with supplement
🧑🧑🧒🧒 Group accepted : Yes
👌 Affiliation : PADI
✅ Structure : Professional center
Depuis avril 2024, avec trois associés passionnés, nous avons repris la gestion du club Phocea Mexico, situé au cœur de la Riviera Maya, au Mexique.
Notre équipe est francophone, dynamique et cumule plus de 20 ans d’expérience dans le domaine de la plongée.
Nous avons à cœur de faire découvrir — ou redécouvrir 😉 — les merveilles de notre région :
- Les cenotes emblématiques de la péninsule
- Les récifs mondialement connus de Cozumel, explorés par Jacques-Yves Cousteau
- Nos activités saisonnières : plongées avec requins-bouledogue, raies aigle, snorkeling avec requins-baleine, poissons-voiliers
Phocea Mexico est un club à taille humaine, avec la capacité d’accueillir des groupes.
Nous organisons des séjours clé en main, incluant hébergement, plongées et excursions terrestres, avec un service personnalisé et une logistique maîtrisée.
Accommodation
Accommodation
Stay on site :
We work in partnership with several carefully selected hotels, offering comfort and proximity to our dive center. Whether you prefer simple or more luxurious accommodation, you will find an option tailored to your needs.
Agreements or discounts with partner accommodations :
Enjoy preferential rates and exclusive benefits thanks to our agreements with partner hotels. This allows you to benefit from a peaceful and economical stay, while remaining close to our diving activities.
We take care of everything :
Our team takes care of all the logistics.
Good to Know
Know this
Safety information :
Oxygen on board, nearby chamber
Other activities offered by the center :
Shark-whale snorkeling, land tours
Opening and annual closure days :
Open all year round except December 25 and January 1
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Google Reviews
sally duckworth
★★★★★
Fantastic day of diving with five very different and memorable dives. We saw nurse sharks, turtles, octopus, plenty of eels, lobster, and an abundance of reef fish. The dive centre is extremely well equipped and professionally run, ideally located just a short walk from the beach and the boat. The setup is excellent, with proper changing rooms and secure areas to store gear. Equipment is high-quality French gear, all very well maintained, with options for oxygen and nitrox available. The team was flexible and accommodating, happy to tailor the dives to where we wanted to go, which made the experience feel personal rather than rushed or generic. Boarding the boat required a bit of clambering, but once aboard we were in great hands. The boat driver was excellent, and the crew were attentive and helpful throughout, assisting with gear setup and smoothly getting us in and out of the water. The dive masters and instructors (French and Dutch) were outstanding — professional, knowledgeable, and clearly passionate about what they do. Underwater they were great at spotting and pointing out marine life, while maintaining strong safety standards and excellent ocean awareness. We finished the day with a bull shark dive, which was a truly unique experience. I’ve never been so close to sharks before — absolutely unforgettable. Highly recommended for anyone looking for a professionally run dive centre with great guidance, flexibility, and an exceptional diving experience.
Rainhard Riede
★★★★★
I showed up this morning asking for dives on the same day and they made it work. Super thankful, especially since those dives turned out to be very special to me. We got very lucky on our playa reef dive and we got to see on both dives turtles & for my first time the bullshark. Great diving center with good equipment, amazing staff & good prices! I highly recommend it.
Jose Ramirez
★★★★★
Such an awesome experience. I would definitely go back. Dasha was such a great coach! She helped me get over my fear of the water entering my nose. She calmed me down when my ear drum was a bout to bust. Me and my sister was amazed by all the fix natural beauty there was out there. Great people and super nice and helpful.
Hoby
★★★★★
It was amazing experience - a thoroughly supported process in booking to learning to diving. I highly recommend Phocea for your diving experience. We dove three times and each was nicely organized and accommodating. Freya was extraordinarily great, with her ‘tricks’ on learning about nitrox equations. The staffs and teams are also super friendly. If you are in the area, absolutely book with Phocea!
Damien Kurzenne
★★★★★
I yesterday completed my Open water certification on 2 days-with Phocea and it was a truly amazing adventure. Thanks Freya for your patience and for being such a great teacher, I will never forget my first dive, coucou! Luckily this dive center is super flexible so I was able to book another 2 fun dives on my third day with Mathis. Merci pour tout ces conseils toujours pertinents et ta grande sympathie 🙌🏻 They are a truly passionate group of divers who adore to share their love for nature. Being super friendly and cool, they prioritise security on every dive which made me feel really safe at all times. I can only recommend this dive center which I will surely revisit in the upcoming years ! Take care guys and see you soon 🫶🏻