Your guide
Meet Your Angelita Guide
Angelita is not just a place you visit. It is a dive you are guided through carefully.
The right guide makes the difference between “I saw the cloud” and “I understood the dive, felt relaxed, and had one of the strangest underwater experiences of my life.”
Guide profile
Martin Ramirez
Martin Ramirez is a local Riviera Maya cenote guide with experience guiding divers through Angelita and other cenotes in the region. The goal is simple: small groups, clear briefings, calm pacing, and dives that match the diver’s level.
- Years diving: over 25 years
- Years guiding in the Riviera Maya: 26 years
- Certifications: up to cave instructor level and more
- Languages: English and Spanish
- Favorite cenote besides Angelita: everyone is different
Certifications & experience
Built slowly, underwater, year after year
This is the short version of Martin's dive path, from open water diver to cave instructor levels and specialty instructor training.
Advanced Open Water Diver
Full Cave Diver
Rescue Diver & Dive Master
Open Water Scuba Instructor
Cavern, Nitrox & Deep Diver Instructor
Advanced Nitrox, Side Mount & Intro to Cave Instructor
Full Cave Instructor
Assistant Instructor
Stage Cave Instructor
Other specialties
Extra tools in the dive bag
- Dive Experience Leader
- Solo Diving Instructor
- Snorkeling Instructor
- Computer Diver Instructor
- Computer Nitrox Instructor
- Intro to Tech Instructor
- Advanced Buoyancy Instructor
- Marine Ecosystems Awareness Instructor
- Dry Suit Diving Instructor
- Equipment Specialist Instructor
- Night / Limited Visibility Diving Instructor
- Underwater Navigation Diving Instructor
- Underwater Photography Instructor
- Underwater Video Instructor
- Wreck Instructor
- Boat Diving Instructor
- Deep Diving Instructor
- Diver Propulsion Vehicle Instructor
- Drift Diving Instructor
Safety philosophy
Angelita is not a race to the cloud
The best dive here is slow, controlled, and properly briefed.
The guide's job is not just to show you where the famous layer is. It is to check whether the dive fits your experience, explain the plan clearly, keep the group calm, and protect the cenote.
Small groups when possible
Honest pre-dive screening
Clear depth and gas planning
Calm descent
Good buoyancy
Respect for the cenote
No pressure to do the dive if it is not the right fit
Why guide trust matters
Simple from the surface, serious underwater
Angelita looks simple from the surface. That is exactly why it deserves respect. A good guide knows when to slow the dive down, when to adjust the plan, and when to recommend a different cenote instead.
That honesty is part of the service.