EMANUELA (ELA) BERTONI
Nationality: Italian
Born in Varese (Italy) July 5 1979
Current project in Tulum: building our own dive center
DIVING Instructor for:
DIVING Instructor for:
Diving
UTD Scooter Cave Diver
UTD Technical Cave Diver
UTD Advanced Sidemount Diver
UTD Cave Diver Gold (Stage)
UTD Cave Diver
UTD Technical Cave Diver
UTD Advanced Sidemount Diver
UTD Cave Diver Gold (Stage)
UTD Cave Diver
UTD Overhead Protocols
UTD Essentials of Overhead
UTD Rescue and Divemaster
UTD Rescue and Divemaster
UTD Rec 1, 2, 3
UTD Nitrox
UTD Double Mini
UTD Drysuit Mini
UTD Double Mini
UTD Drysuit Mini
NSS-CDS Full Cave Instructor #363
Diver qualifications:
UTD mCCR
UTD Trimix
UTD mCCR
UTD Trimix
NSS-CDS DPV
NSS-CDS Stage
NSS-CDS Sidemount
NSS-CDS Recovery
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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ADAM KORYTKO
Nationality: British
Current project: developing Caveheaven Tulum into the leading cave and tech dive center on the Riviera Maya.
Diving instructor for:
UTD Scooter Cave Diver
UTD Technical Cave Diver
UTD Advanced Sidemount Diver
UTD Cave Diver Gold (Stage)
UTD Cave Diver
UTD Overhead Protocols
UTD Essentials of Overhead
UTD Rescue and Divemaster
UTD Rec 1, 2, 3
UTD Nitrox
UTD Double Mini
UTD Drysuit Mini
NSS-CDS Cave Instructor #364
Diving qualifications:
Diving qualifications:
UTD Trimix
NSS-CDS DPV
NSS-CDS Stage
NSS-CDS SidemountNSS-CDS Stage
NSS-CDS Recovery
NSS-CDS Abe Davis Safe Cave Diving Award recipient
APSA official cavern and cave guide of Yucatan
Emergency First Response Instructor
DAN Oxygen Provider
Background:
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, his life changed when he started cave diving.
The following year, he decided to move immediately to Mexico to pursue the passion and in 2006 began the 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 instructor
2008 - became NSS-CDS Cave instructor.
2010 - became UTD (Unified Team Diving) Cave 1 instructor.
Exploration projects - Cenote Divino, Sistema Ixchel and Sistema K'u Pix
DAN Oxygen Provider.
