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Adv. Cave - Survey Diver in Mexico: 3 dive centres on TecDiveTools, with agencies, courses taught and a summary of what students say. 2 publish course prices.
TecDiveTools lists 3 dive centres teaching Adv. Cave - Survey Diver in Mexico. 2 of them publish course prices, in the currency the shop advertises and with the date each was checked — not converted, and not estimated.
Listings are ordered by how much evidence exists about their technical diving, not by a star rating, with any paid Featured listing shown first and marked as such (how rankings work). 1 of these 3 carry reviews we have read and classified as being about technical or overhead training. The count excludes recreational certifications by name, so a busy resort does not outrank a one-instructor cave operation on the volume of its reef trips. Separately, 1 have at least one instructor whose reviews we have read and summarised — a dive centre carries no synthesis of its own. How we read and count reviews.
Looking for individual instructors instead? Instructors in Mexico.
About the course
This specialized training qualifies Technical Cave Divers to systematically map, photograph, and document cave passages using proper survey techniques and underwater photogrammetry. You'll learn line laying and baseline measurement, data recording under overhead conditions, and coordination with team members to ensure accurate spatial documentation. Survey diving opens opportunities to contribute to cave research projects, expeditions to unmapped systems, and scientific diving efforts that advance speleological knowledge.
The centres listed above teach IANTD Adv. Cave - Survey Diver in Mexico. Requirements are set by the agency, not the centre, so they are the same wherever you train — what differs is price, class size and how much diving is included.
3 dive centres on TecDiveTools teach IANTD Adv. Cave - Survey Diver in Mexico: Tulum (2) and Puerto Aventuras (1). Each is listed above.
The cenotes are the benchmark place to train: around 24–25°C, very clear, with daylight cavern zones for a first course and some of the longest mapped cave systems in the world for full cave and beyond. The number of entrances and the variety of passage — decorated, wide, low, haloclined — let you train on different cave profiles in a single trip.
One centre in the TecDiveTools directory publishes a whole-course price for IANTD Adv. Cave - Survey Diver in Mexico: Cave Ha Diving, at $378. 1 centre charges by the day instead, which is not comparable with a course total. Prices differ mainly in what they include, so compare the inclusions before comparing the numbers. Prices were last checked in September 2026.
Between 2 and 3 days, based on the durations 2 centres publish for it in Mexico. The time depends on the centre's schedule, weather, and how quickly the required skills are demonstrated — agencies set a minimum number of dives, not a fixed number of days.
At the same tier in TecDiveTools' cross-agency comparison, dive centres in Mexico also teach NSS-CDS Cave Surveying (1). They are comparable rather than interchangeable — each agency sets its own standards and card, so check which one your next course accepts.