Scuba diving Spain

The Gidive Center Palamós dive center is located in the Marina de Palamós, with free parking. Enjoy, during your diving stay at Gidive Center Palamós, the comfortable facilities on 250 m2 including separate changing rooms with showers, soap, hairdryer, and sockets. Take your diving lessons in the classroom equipped with Wi-Fi, TV, and touch-screen tablets for theory, with the possibility of recharging your mobile phone. Store your personal equipment in the room, independently of the rental equipment which is checked and renewed periodically. A corner is dedicated to desalting and drying your equipment. A Bauer air filling station also allows technical dives with Nitrox or Trimix. Share good times with other divers, on the large terrace, over a drink, filling in your logbook and sharing your experiences. Close to the Gidive Center Palamós training centre is the Morro del Vedell cove. This beach is easily accessible and is ideal for diving courses. Take advantage of your diving holiday in Palamós to get certified, from the beginner level with the first dive to the Divemaster level, with shore and boat dives. PADI TecRec courses are held in technical diving with certified instructors giving personalized advice. The comfortable boat Piola, 11.50 meters long, accommodates 36 passengers and has an enclosed cabin, ideal against the cold and wind in winter. Take it out with its skipper for half a day or a full day to the most beautiful coves of the Costa Brava. The best diving and snorkeling spots in Palamos are at Islas Formigues, a group of reddish islets opposite Cap de Planes; at Els Ullastres, with three rocky shoals with large red gorgonians to the north; and at the wreck of a German navy tugboat, the Boreas, a 5-minute sail from the Gidive Center Palamós. Here you can observe the beautiful Mediterranean fauna. [+]

The Glups Diving centre is located in Cambrils, on Cavet beach, facing the sea and the beach, next to the quay where the boat stands. Open Tuesday to Thursday from 10am to 8.30pm and Friday and Saturday from 10am to 1pm and from 5pm to 8.30pm. You can unload equipment with the car directly on the quay. At Glups Diving you'll find changing rooms, a classroom equipped with the latest technology so you can give all your lessons, full equipment for hire, a shop where you can buy additional equipment, and a reception area for formalities. The instructors at Glups Diving offer PADI courses, from beginner to divemaster, as well as nitrox dives and technical courses. Come aboard the 12-seater QUER DIVE 24' rigid boat, fitted out for diver comfort with bottle holders and fin attachments, canopies and seats. To get to the dive sites by boat, allow 5 to 30 minutes from the port. What else does Glups Diving offer? We sell equipment on site, but we also offer the after-sales service that goes with it, with expert technical maintenance in line with the manufacturer's instructions. You can also take out diving insurance on site, book a trip to the other side of the world and take part in locally organised events. Some of our staff excel in professional diving. With Glups Diving, explore the wrecks of a 65-metre cargo ship, the Dragonera, lying between 14 and 24 metres on a sandy, muddy seabed, or the Barca d'en Robert wreck. Enjoy encounters with mostella and grouper at sites such as Escalon, Biotop or El Plobat, Freu de Terra and Penal. The diving package and accommodation can be booked at Nautic Parc. [+]

The Unisub diving centre is located in l'Estartit, on the Costa Brava, Spain, 30 kilometres from the town of Girona. Unisub's premises are also adapted to accommodate groups with full equipment hire, a repair workshop, a conference and projection room, and transport of equipment to the boats. Your personal equipment can be stored on the premises. Embark on 2 to 4 sea trips per day, depending on the season. The instructors of the Unisub training centre generally welcome you in your own language to follow the PADI and FFESSM courses, from baptism to Rescue Diver. They make it a point of honour to satisfy their clients. The best spots in L'Estartit are located in the nature reserve of the Medes Islands, popular with divers from all over Europe. This small archipelago is a beautiful natural site in Catalonia, located one mile from L'Estartit. Composed of seven islets, several reefs offer very interesting underwater routes. The coastline extends underwater in steep drop-offs with underwater caves. At Unisub you will enjoy a programme with a mix of the best dive sites in l'Estartit, either on the coast with Les Salines, Negre del Falaguer, El Rossinyol, Puig de la Sardina, La Pedrosa, El Reggio, La Ferriola, or around the Medes Islands with El Salpatxot, Pedra de Déu, El Medallot, Pota de Llop, La Vaca. Take advantage of Unisub's great prices with the hotel or flat stays including 10 dives. A good little restaurant serves as a canteen for divers and offers a daily menu. Unisub is a very well known centre for former divers as it exists since 1960. [+]

Mateua Dive is located in L'Escala, in the municipality of Girona, north of L'Estartit. Open from 9 am to 1.30 pm and 3.30 pm to 7 pm all week, Mateua Dive staff are on duty all day on Saturday and Sunday from 8 am to 7.30 pm. You feel like you're somewhere else at Mateua Dive with its white premises and large carpeted terrace with wooden benches. You can have lunch and a drink between dives. What's on the menu? Tapas, burgers and colourful mixed salads. Accessible thanks to ramps, people with reduced mobility are also supervised underwater by specially trained instructors. Enjoy 5 hot showers, a changing room with benches and hangers to leave your towels and personal belongings and put on your wetsuit. The Mateua Dive training centre offers SSI theory courses in the indoor classroom equipped with a blackboard and also outside in a shaded area to take shelter from the sun. All SSI courses for divers are offered from Basic Diver to Advanced Adventure as well as specialities to improve your rescue skills with stress and rescue and react right or more fun dives to become a Night Diver, ideal to discover the Mediterranean fauna of L'Escala in peace by the light of your night lamp. Board the Sirenita, a 10-metre boat with a capacity of 25 people, or the faster 6.20-metre RIB to reach the popular dive spots of the Medes Islands. The Mateua Dive Centre offers around 20 dive sites along the coast with cave dives, ideal for becoming a PADI Cave Diver. Become a PADI Deep Diver by doing deep dives around the small islands of Illes de Cala Ferriolo, Illes Cala Pedroso and of course, Ille Mateua, right in front of the Mateua Dive club! The wreck of the Marmoler is one of the best dives in L'Escala. Follow the Wreck Diver speciality here! [+]

La Sirena is located in the L'Estartit Seaside Resort, on the Costa Brava Mediterranean coast, in Catalonia, Spain. Open from April to November. Diving with them, you’ll explore the sub-basins of the Medes Islands, declared Reserve and National Park since 1990. Very popular among European divers. On location, possibility of FFESSM training and snorkeling. Swimming from the boats, after the dives, during the summer months. You’ll find plenty of ingenious facilities at La Sirena which has a great and long experience in welcoming divers. Lockable equipment storage boxes provided by the Center. No more tedious rinsing with a now automated hot air dryer so that your suit is nice and ready for your next dive. Their very comfortable boats are equipped with lifts to help the divers board without breaking their backs going up a ladder. The must is the hot shower on the Sirena 2 ! In partnership with the warm, family and very welcoming Flamingo Hotel, located in the Natural Park of Montgri, 300 m from the beach. Kite surfing, climbing, golf, cycling and hiking. Also possible to rent Alga flats next to the hotel, opposite the pool. Air conditioning and heating in the dining room. Free Wifi and satellite TV. Car park available at an extra charge. [+]