About us

“Truly great instructors can distill the essence of their art into something simple, elegant and beautiful. Less is More. But to do less you have to learn more.”
Steve Bogaerts

Elite Divers International is born out of passion for the underwater world and scuba diving some years ago in Thailand. After traveling around the globe through Asia, the Persian Golf and Australia, we finally settled down in Mexico after falling in love with the Cenotes and Cave Diving. We feel privileged to have such a wide diversity of diving environments to our disposal and the magic of those places is making hard to ever consider leaving again.

We pride ourselves in offering a personalised service and small groups for the most comfortable and adapted experience to your needs. We invite you to join us and dive with us to share our passion, transmit that flame should you decide to become one of our esteemed Padawans.

About us

“Truly great instructors can distill the essence of their art into something simple, elegant and beautiful. Less is More. But to do less you have to learn more.”
Steve Bogaerts

Elite Divers International is born out of passion for the underwater world and scuba diving some years ago in Thailand. After traveling around the globe through Asia, the Persian Golf and Australia, we finally settled down in Mexico after falling in love with the Cenotes and Cave Diving. We feel privileged to have such a wide diversity of diving environments to our disposal and the magic of those places is making hard to ever consider leaving again.

We pride ourselves in offering a personalised service and small groups for the most comfortable and adapted experience to your needs. We invite you to join us and dive with us to share our passion, transmit that flame should you decide to become one of our esteemed Padawans.

Anne-Laure Huynh

Operations Manager
TDI Sidemount / Intro To Tech / DPV Tech / Cavern / Decompression Procedures Instructor
Official Razor Sidemount Instructor
Registered Cave & Cavern Guide
Registered Cozumel Marine Park Guide
SDI OW Instructor
TDI DPV Stage Cave Diver
TDI KISS Sidewinder Air Diluent Decompression Diver
IANTD CCR Advanced Nitrox Fathom Gemini Diver
GUE Fundamentals Diver

Arthur Nguyen-Kim

GUE Fundamentals / DPV 1 Instructor
IANTD Essentials / Sidemount / Technical Cave Instructor / Multi Stage Cave Instructor
TDI Sidemount / Intro To Tech / DPV Tech / Decompression Procedures / Cave Decompression Instructor
Official Razor Sidemount Instructor
SDI OW Instructor
Registered Cave & Cavern Guide
Registered Cozumel Marine Park Guide
TDI DPV Stage Cave Diver
TDI Stage Cave Diver
GUE DPV Cave & Tech 1 Trimix Diver
IANTD CCR Advanced Nitrox Fathom & Gemini Diver

Mark Michael Ehlich

IANTD Essentials / Sidemount / Technical Cave Instructor / Multi Stage Cave / AR Trimix + Instructor
TDI Sidemount / Intro To Tech / Decompression Procedures / Cave Decompression Instructor
SDI OW Instructor
Registered Cave & Cavern Guide
Registered Cozumel Marine Park Guide
TDI Stage Cave Diver
GUE Cave 2 & Tech 1 Trimix Diver

Shawn Murphy

Award Winning Photographer & Videographer
PADI OW Instructor
Registered Cave & Cavern Guide
Registered Cozumel Marine Park Guide
TDI Full Cave Diver
GUE Fundamentals Diver

Anne-Laure Huynh

Operations Manager
TDI Sidemount / Intro To Tech / DPV Tech / Cavern / Decompression Procedures Instructor
Official Razor Sidemount Instructor
Registered Cave & Cavern Guide
Registered Cozumel Marine Park Guide
SDI OW Instructor
TDI DPV Stage Cave Diver
TDI KISS Sidewinder Air Diluent Decompression Diver
IANTD CCR Advanced Nitrox Fathom Gemini Diver
GUE Fundamentals Diver

Arthur Nguyen-Kim

GUE Fundamentals / DPV 1 Instructor
IANTD Essentials / Sidemount / Technical Cave Instructor / Multi Stage Cave Instructor
TDI Sidemount / Intro To Tech / DPV Tech / Decompression Procedures / Cave Decompression Instructor
Official Razor Sidemount Instructor
SDI OW Instructor
Registered Cave & Cavern Guide
Registered Cozumel Marine Park Guide
TDI DPV Stage Cave Diver
TDI Stage Cave Diver
GUE DPV Cave & Tech 1 Trimix Diver
IANTD CCR Advanced Nitrox Fathom & Gemini Diver

Mark Ehlich

IANTD Essentials / Sidemount / Technical Cave Instructor / Multi Stage Cave / AR Trimix + Instructor
TDI Sidemount / Intro To Tech / Decompression Procedures / Cave Decompression Instructor
SDI OW Instructor
Registered Cave & Cavern Guide
Registered Cozumel Marine Park Guide
TDI Stage Cave Diver
GUE Cave 2 & Tech 1 Trimix Diver

Shawn Murphy

Award Winning Photographer & Videographer
PADI OW Instructor
Registered Cave & Cavern Guide
Registered Cozumel Marine Park Guide
TDI Full Cave Diver
GUE Fundamentals Diver

Teaching Organisations

AUTHORIZED DEALER

There is no substitute for experience & finding out what really works for you in practice rather than just in theory.
This is how we chose to become Official Dealers and Authorized Distributors for XDeep, Razor, OMS, DUI, Apeks & Bigblue Lights.

Your trust is important and we pride ourselves to recommend the gear we use personnally & we believe is right. Let us know what you’d like to purchase from the brands below and we will arrange it for you at your arrival. If you are not sure of the exact equipment you will need for any upcoming class, please contact us and we will be happy to guide you with the required items.

AUTHORIZED DEALER

There is no substitute for experience & finding out what really works for you in practice rather than just in theory.
This is how we chose to become Official Dealers and Authorized Distributors for XDeep, Razor, OMS, DUI, Apeks & Bigblue Lights.

Your trust is important and we pride ourselves to recommend the gear we use personnally & we believe is right. Let us know what you’d like to purchase from the brands below and we will arrange it for you at your arrival. If you are not sure of the exact equipment you will need for any upcoming class, please contact us and we will be happy to guide you with the required items.

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What people say

Amazing diving! Amazing dive shop based out of Playa Del Carmen. Have dove with EDI numerous times and have always been so impressed with the skill, attention to detail and knowledge by the crew at EDI I recently had my girlfriend get certified with EDI and was more than impressed with the course. Cannot recommend them enough for any diving needs!

TylerH335
7/04/2022
We had an amazing experience diving the Cenotes with Elite Divers International. Our guide changed my whole groups perspective on what diving could/should be, gave us all goals for how we want to dive in the future, and we had the best time diving (along with the best tacos). We loved the high safety standards, and will always dive with Elite Divers International on future trips to the area.

Beth Ogasian
2/06/2023
Elite Divers- VERY BEST in class!!! There isn’t a high enough rating for me to offer Arthur, Carlito, Hector and Captain Sammy for our most fabulous day swimming w whale sharks this week!!!

I own a luxury travel agency and I pride myself on providing best in class service to my clients and expect the same with partner vendors I choose to use. I have a lot of choice in who I do business with of course.

This week seven of us from around the US gathered for a special 50th birthday. We checked off this bucket list experience of swimming with the whale sharks with Elite Divers Intnl while staying in Playa Mujeres.

Every single thing about this adventure was absolutely five-star. From pre-communication, to having to change our date due to potential rough seas on originally planned date, our pick up, the spectacular chef made breakfast, the education and safety, the swimming and perfect positioning and care while swimming w these fabulous creatures, the IN OCEAN fresh ceviche and beverages after .. and the videos and pics our crew took of us. And the humoring these great guys gave to some fun loving 50 year olds . A true memory of a lifetime!

Can’t wait to send more business tour way!!!

colleena840
7/09/2021
Wow! We had an amazing time with Arthur! After finishing our Open Water certification with him he took us on 2 Cenote dives. Absolutely amazing instructor! Professional, friendly and patient. Everything you'd hope for when diving for the first time! If you are looking at doing any diving in Mexico, he is the man to do it with!

Scott Wylie
8/15/2017
Our first cenote diving experience was at Dos Ojos, with Anne-Laure as our guide. It was an absolutely perfect experience in every way! Anne-Laure was patient and thorough in her explanation of the cave diving process and what we were going to see on each of the two dives. Also appreciated was a very nice lunch she prepared for us as we are vegan. The diving was fun, easy, and amazingly beautiful! I can highly recommend Elite Divers International!

Peter Williams
4/18/2021

What people say

I had the most incredible learning experience with dive instructor Arthur Nguyen-Kim who went above and beyond. Arthur’s passion for diving truly resonates through his training and professional service. It was so much fun completing my PADI Open Water Diver Course with Arthur. Definitely recommend Elite Divers International in Playa del Carmen, Mexico.

Thank you, merci, gracias!!!

Until next time �

Hannah Clare Kim
6/28/2018
I went diving a few times with Anne-Laure and it has been amazing. She is a beautiful diver, very professional, dedicated to her divers, passionate about her job, thorough but cool at the same time.
I hope to keep diving with her for a long time and to get my full cave certificate with her as my instructor one day!
Do not hesitate and go discover the magical beauty of the cenotes with Anne-Laure!

Lara Tatouille
5/06/2018
With Elite divers I've had a great observation Bull shark dive and an a very enjoyable reef dive. Everything went very smooth ... highly recomemded .

marian
12/10/2024
My girlfriend and I had four fantastic Cenote dives together with our instructor Mark. Can’t recommend this dive shop enough. Everything was very well organized from start to finish, the equipment and the dive briefings are superb so that we felt in very good and capable hands the whole time. The Cenotes we visited were all incredible. Whenever I return to Playa I will go with the Elite Divers again! 🙂 Thanks a lot for having us Mark!

Serge Schlotthauer
3/27/2024
Unique diving experience This was a truly great experience for us and probably my best dives ever. They showed us the most spectacular dive spots around and to be honest, it doesn’t get much better than this. The cenotes are amazing and the experienced instructors know every little special spot. Diving with the bullsharks should not be missed either, thanks for these life lasting memories!

bartv442
1/26/2021