Hugo De la Llata
Hugo De la Llata teaches technical and cave diving at Blue Life in Playa del Carmen, specializing in full cave, sidemount, and technical courses. With TDI certification and emphasis on thorough training methodology, he works as part of a team of highly-trained professional instructors at one of the region's premier dive centers.
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De la Llata teaches technical and cave diving at Blue Life in Playa del Carmen. Blue Life is a large operation with a great deal of recreational volume, but the reviews of his cave courses are specific. Students describe multi-day blocks rather than compressed courses: an eight-day full cave course with one classroom day and the rest spread across several different cenotes around the region, and an intro-to-cave-through-full-cave progression that one reviewer calls the most adventurous thing they had undertaken. The emphasis students report is on cave diving safety and etiquette rather than on ticking skills, and several mention having researched the region carefully before booking and finding he met the bar. In the forums he is named for full cave in the Puerto Aventuras and Playa area — one ScubaBoard poster did full cave with him and Frank Gutierrez together and describes the training as "very thorough and demanding, but pretty fun at the same time", which is the phrase that recurs. He also appears in r/scuba's standing list of cave instructors worth contacting in the region, alongside James Draker, Pam Wooten and Roger Williams.
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