The ProTec Dive Centers Gang Needs Your Help!

The ProTec Gang Needs Your Help!

The Convid-19 global pandemic has brought the world to a standstill.  Both Tulum and Playa del Carmen are locked down and travel in Q. Roo is heavily restricted. Families have been separated, businesses closed, panic buying throughout the world and a general fear of not knowing what's around the corner has the whole population on edge.

People are staying home, and rightfully so. As we’ve all seen on various media platforms, we need to “flatten the curve” to ensure that hospitals are not overrun and people do not go without medical treatment.

To protect our staff and local families, ProTec has suspended all operations until it is safe again.  As you might imagine, our business is particularly susceptible to interruption because we depend 100% on a continuous flow of customers to travel halfway around the world to dive and train with us. Our last customer departed in March. All of our upcoming courses have been canceled or postponed until further notice. With no support from the Mexican Government, we are having to ride this storm out on our own.

This means we have zero revenue to cover our fixed expenses and to support our staff for the long-haul.  At ProTec Playa del Carmen, we have rent expenses, utilities, a compressor, a booster, and multiple DPVs and lights that must be maintained.  At ProTec Tulum, we have rent expenses, utilities, two large compressors, a nitrox membrane, boosters, and multiple DPVs and lights that must be maintained. This equipment took us a decade to acquire and put into service for our cave diving and CCR community.  It is essential to create the magical experience our friends from Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States have come to enjoy and rely on when you travel to Mexico.

While we have a small prudent financial reserve, it is not enough to cover our expenses and a reduced payroll for a long period of time, and we are already burning through that reserve.

We believe in self-rescue and keeping the team together. So, the ProTec Gang Needs Your Help! If you’ve trained or dived with us you know what we are talking about.  We are now asking our global team to donate a little bit of ‘gas’ to help us get through this and get back to the light.

We created ProTec’s GoFundMe campaign in order to help pay for the following: reduced payroll for our entire staff while shops are closed. A prolonged financial support to our instructors until things get back to “normal” and the shop produces enough work for them to be able to live off of it. The majority of the money will go to our staff and their families who, without ProTec, have no income.  This includes:

-- Nestor
-- Carlos
-- Elliot
-- Jake
-- Kirk
-- Nelson
-- Mario
-- Melqui
-- Jaime
-- Skanda
-- Tamara

All people you’ve met and come to love.  Our support of our Mexican family will help them stay healthy.  Our support of our world-class instructor team will help them stay in Mexico and be there when you return.

While we are all enduring extreme hardship, the ProTec team will continue to engage with you.  We are generating content across our social channels, we are going to deliver live events, and we are publishing stories based on our community’s adventures.  We want to hear from you on social media, by email, and on WhatsApp.

We are an extremely close team and have no intentions whatsoever of letting go of any of the staff. We cannot stress this enough, our number 1 mission is to ensure our staff and team stays together during these tough times so that when the world gets back to normal we can go back to doing what we love the most - diving with you all.

We need these funds immediately.  We will be putting them to work as we receive them to ensure our team is cared for.

In closing, we cannot truly communicate how grateful we are to have gotten to know you and dive with you.  Your help will help us to help our ProTec Gang and we will be deeply grateful to you and your family for your sacrifice.

Thank you and we love you, without you, there is no cave diving community and there is no ProTec Gang.

Thank you from your ProTec Gang:
Patrick, Kim, Rosalba, Hans, and the entire ProTec Team!

ProTec Dive Centers 


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