Humpback whale

The Espirito Azul diving center is located in the marina of Vila Franca do Campo, on the island of Sao Miguel, Azores. Open every day of the year, you make an appointment at Espirito Azul in the morning at 9 am and in the afternoon at 2 pm. For day trips, departure is at 7:00 am with a picnic provided. At Espirito Azul, you will find changing rooms with hot and cold showers, toilets, a store, a workshop to have your equipment serviced, a nitrox, trimix, and oxygen filling station, a room, and a pool of 3, 7, 10, 12 and 15-liter diving cylinders (DIN and INT) with one or two outings. The equipment is provided by Espirito Azul. Fifteen complete sets of equipment are available for rent. There is space to rinse and store your personal equipment. Don't hesitate to bring your rebreather too! When you take your nitrox training at Espirito Azul, you get free nitrox during all your stays in the Espirito Azul dive school! PADI courses for beginners are offered from Discover Scuba Diver to Advanced Open Water Diver. At Espirito Azul, expect two exploration dives per day on one of the 3 RIB boats, starting from the marina of Vila Franca do Campo. Dives include skipper, guide, boat, and gas up to 6 nautical miles from the center, insurance, tank and weights. Visit the best spots in the Azores, in Formigas, and Dollabarat. Ideal for diving with stingrays and eagle rays? Go to Dori and Banco D.Jao De Castro! Snorkeling trips along the coast are also possible. Ask for the photos taken as a souvenir during your dives! The organization of barbecues on the beach and aperitifs in the marina contribute to the nice atmosphere of Espirito Azul. [+]

Best Spot Azores Dive Centre is located in Ponta Delgada, on the island of Sao Miguel, Azores. Here you are in a 5 star PADI and AWARE dive center. Nevertheless, PADI training for beginners is in the spotlight with Discover Scuba Diver and Scuba Diver sea baptisms. Choose the 10-dive package with or without equipment rental, if you want to have time to observe pelagic animals. On Best Spot Azores Diving center boats, you have access to around 50 dive sites around Faial Island. Some of the Best Spot Azores dive guides are biologists who give you an educational introduction to the marine life of the Azores. Experienced, they guide you in a calm, relaxed and safe manner. During your diving holiday in the Azores, go on long trips out to sea to observe the passage of rays, tuna, and kingfish in the blue. Take advantage of a diving holiday on Sao Miguel Island to go on snorkeling trips with family and friends, with insurance and equipment included. Best Spot Azores guides explain how to use the equipment, fins, mask, and snorkel and give you technical tips to practice safely. The Best Spot Azores diving club organizes trips to the sea, either for a walk along the coast or for a beautiful encounter with the local fauna, in the middle of the Azores' underwater landscapes, in a zen atmosphere. [+]

The Dive Bouteille diving center is located in Terre-de-Haut, in the archipelago of Les Saintes, in Guadeloupe, on the beach, a few meters from the boat. Your appointment is at 8:00 am at the center and the boat returns at 12:30 pm. The morning trip includes 2 successive dives on 2 different sites. The surface interval allows you to have a snack on board with tea and biscuits. There is free time for divers and snorkelers to enjoy the beaches and walks in the Saintes archipelago. There is a changing room, toilet, and shower. The rental equipment is maintained and renewed regularly. The prices of the dives include the complete equipment of the diver, except computers and parachutes of level, obligatory to claim to dive in autonomy. It is possible to bring your rebreather to the Dive Bouteille as there is a supply of lime, oxygen, helium, Bailouts. You can even find spare parts for Submatix. The Dive Bouteille training centre offers FFESSM, ANMP and PADI courses. The divers evolve at their own pace, respecting the standards of each of these organizations. And if you have never dived before, try the Dive Bouteille special baptism: you won't regret it! Embark on the Dive Bouteille, an 8.50 meter long aluminum barge, equipped with a powerful engine allowing quick access to the best diving spots in the Saintes. Its good stability and seakeeping are really appreciable. With a capacity of 20 divers, only ten divers can board, optimizing the space for equipment, for more comfort and safety. [+]

Dive Tribe Sao Vicente is located at the Sport Fishing Club, just down from the Dokas restaurant, near the ferry to Santo Antao. The meeting point is at 8.15 a at the dive center and the return from the boat is around 1 p. There are 2 consecutive dives in the morning, always with a guide. There are two Dive Tribe dive centers on the island of Sao Vicente, one in Mindelo and the other in. In these Dive Tribe training schools, you will benefit from courses ranging from the beginner level with the Discover Scuba Diver to the advanced level with the Divemaster. Depending on the weather, you will be transferred by car between these two locations and then board one of the fishermen's boats. The center offers diving equipment for hire and has compressors with filtering systems to ensure the best possible quality of breathable air. For a diving holiday in Cape Verde, don't hesitate to stay at the Foya Branca Resort where the center is located. The charm of this diving destination? It is the discovery of the underwater fauna of Cape Verde, sometimes tropical with triggerfish, parrots, snapper, sometimes Atlantic with mullets, sea bass, bastards. Beautiful encounters are possible here, from the small frogfish to the manta ray and the whale shark. Nurse sharks are frequently seen on the sites. Five of the seven species of turtles in the world are found in the Cape Verde archipelago, three of which are commonly seen on dives in São Vicente. As the islands of Cape Verde are volcanic, underwater explorations take place in the midst of varied underwater landscapes, drop-offs, and scree-forming canyons drained by strong currents. As far as the atmosphere of your diving holiday in Cape Verde is concerned, you will certainly be enchanted by the welcome of the Cape Verdeans, who mix European and African cultures in their way of life. [+]

Amoray Diving is located in Sodwana Bay, South Africa and offers both training and year round diving exploration on the beautiful Sodwana Reefs. Departure from Sodwana Bay, one of the best dive sites in the world. The reef has an incredibly dense coral covering and a great diversity of fish and crustaceans. There are more than 1,200 listed animal species. Diving conditions vary from easy to difficult depends on the wind and the current. The depth of the sites ranges from 10 m to 30 m for recreational diving. Ideal for deep technical divers. Meeting with a Coelacanth in Sodwana, more than 100 m deep. Amoray Dive boats leave every morning for the reefs of Sodwana Bay, named according to their distance up to Jesser Point. Each of these reefs is a dive site with sometimes isolated reefs like Stringer and Bikini. Opportunity to get to 7 Mile reef, to browse around its north wall, with beautiful overhangs. To the south, mushroom-shaped rocks. The Amoray Diving guides take you to 8-Mile reef, 13 km away, with its incredible pinnacles, caves and cornices. Large Turtles, Sharks, Shrimps, Spider Crabs. Stunning colored corals. And Dolphins along the way. The must is to go to 9 Mile reef with a 25 minutes’ ride and see the 2 m high green coral tree with fish all around. Frogfish. Reef Sharks. Sometimes Great White Sharks. Possibility of accommodation at the Mseni Beach Lodge, in the iSimangaliso Park, in a lush forest with dunes overlooking the ocean, with morning and evening transfers to and from the dive Center. [+]