Cenote & Snorkeling Guide

Responsibilities

• Lead cenote swimming and snorkeling excursions for resort guests
• Provide geological and ecological context for cenote system — Yucatán Peninsula cave formation, Mayan sacred water history
• Ensure water safety throughout cenote and snorkeling activities
• Lead Caribbean reef snorkeling trips — species identification, reef ecology, conservation context
• Manage group size and behavior in protected ecological areas
• Transport logistics and site coordination

Requirements

• Water safety certification and strong swimming ability
• Knowledge of Yucatán cenote system and Caribbean reef ecology
• Excellent English
• Genuine passion for the natural environment
• SECTUR guide certification or in progress

Benefits

• IMSS, Aguinaldo, vacation + premium
• Tips
• Equipment provided

Work environment

Cenotes and Caribbean reef sites around Cancún. Working in the world's largest underground river system and one of the world's great reef ecosystems is a genuinely extraordinary professional environment.

About the role

The guide to the world beneath the surface. The tourist who snorkels a Yucatán cenote with a guide who explains they're swimming through a cave system 65 million years old — filled by an underground river that the ancient Maya navigated in canoes to reach sacred pools deep underground — has entered a world that no resort pool approximates. That access to the real Yucatán is the cenote guide's gift.