About

Cave Survey Mexico is all  about cave diving and surveying the caves we dive in. Our current project is to produce a diver friendly map of the popular cave system ,  Sistema Tajma Ha along with the exploration history and anything else we can dig up along the way.  We are having a blast doing this. If you enjoy this site  a tenth as much as we enjoy making it then we succeeded!

Meet the Team ….

Alan Formstone

I remember reading a Sunday Times Magazine article about cave diving when I was very young back in the UK and being thoroughly horrified at the idea. It seemed insane that anyone would want to do this. Ok, they could see some cool stalagtites in air pocket rooms, as long as they pushed past enough of the dead bodies jamming up the passages, but surely a cave is a cave, a dark nasty hole in the earth where sane humans have no right to be, and if it happened to be full of water then that was absolute madness! Not for me thankyou very much!

It’s funny how things change… I was first certified cavern and intro  back in 1999 by Rose Meadows in Florida  finally getting around to  full cave in 2003 with Sergio Granucci. Early in 2010, I advanced from the humdrum of backmount to the intensely exciting world of sidemount under the guidance of Steve Bogaerts.

Outside of cave diving,  I am an OW instructor under PADI and hold various NAUI technical diving qualifications that I fail to remember the names of.

… and here I am making a map. Everyone has a map in them. It just needs to get out.

Jason Renoux

Hola todos, my name is Jason Renoux, I’m French (taking pills against it!) living in Puerto Aventuras, Mexico. I was born in Marseille, France and grew up in Guadeloupe (FWI).
After many years as a PADI Instructor, fifteen years in all, I really needed to do something a bit different. Don’t worry, I didn’t plan to do an 8 to 5 job in an office, no, that’s not me!
A couple of years ago I was certified as an IANTD Full Cave diver and knew this was going to be my escape from the ‘all inclusive dive resorts’ and my journey towards becoming a cave instructor.
I did my training with Steve Bogaerts, the famous extreme cave explorer in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. Steve Bogaerts is a Brit (they are everywhere!) and has tons of experience in deep trimix and rebreathers, so really the right guy for the job!
I recently did my cross-over as an instructor, I am now an IANTD Advanced Nitrox Instructor and a few steps away from becoming a Cavern Instructor. I did this through the Protec Advanced diver training shop in Playa del Carmen (PDC). I will, by the end of the summer, be able to teach a very interesting course for whoever wants to brush up his/her skills and/or prepare for a more advanced form of diving. I have called this Essential Diver training.
After almost one hundred safe dives in the most hostile environment a diver can be in, I think I have enough experience to share the basics of a better and safer scuba diving practice with you.

I also do videography (I invite you to visite my site by the way!) at the same time and offer my services to who ever wants to go back home with a Hollywood-like film production DVD… Well almost!
So here I am now, in the Mayan Riviera diving the very colourful reefs and mystical Cenotes, offering my services as a private trainer (rather than ‘instructor’ – it’s more in tune with what I do!), cave and ocean guide, as well as videographer and photographer.
Looking forward to lots of diving, training and cave exploration…Yeah!!