Sperm whale

The Nautilus Diving Center is located in the center of the village Palau, at the northern tip of the island of Sardinia, in Italy with easy access, on foot, and by car. Expect attentive service at this 5-star PADI center, the first in Palau, established in 1994. French-speaking, experienced and passionate instructors supervise you in small groups. The comfortable and fast boats make it possible to reach the 40 dive sites of the two marine parks of the Maddalena and Lavezzi Islands with journeys of between five minutes and one hour. Embark on board the Selamat Jalan boat, 11 m long, custom-built for diving, equipped with double motorization, a beautiful launching platform, an ascent ladder, and of benches with the fixing of the bottles. The 6.5m long, rigid-hulled RIB Sambal is used for training. The staff rigging and de-rigging the diving equipment on departure and arrival, and changes your tank between the two successive dives, to make your diving vacation in Palau even more relaxing! Dive here with nitrox! Take a PADI Nitrox specialty course at the Nautilus Diving Center and you get free, in-situ Nitrox refilling for life. The air in the compressors is tested regularly. Don't have any hardware? Regularly maintained and replaced rental equipment is offered with 12L, 15L, and 10L blocks with INT and DIN outputs. The Nautilus Diving Center training center offers PADI recreational and technical diving courses, from beginner to professional level. Children have lessons from 8 years old. Accommodation for divers is available nearby: simple bungalows by the sea in a campsite, villas with sea view, apartments, comfortable room in RB&B or in a hotel. [+]

The Lagon Maoré diving centre is located in the south of Grande-Terre, Mayotte, 45 km from Mamoudzou and on the beach of N'Gouja, inside the small resort Jardin Maoré. A beautiful tropical garden houses 18 bungalows and a restaurant, bordering the beach. Rental of Aqualung equipment and 2 rebreathers is available here. Nitrox 32% is offered to divers who are already Nitrox certified. The training centre Le Lagon Maoré offers PADI TDI SDI SSI FFESSM and ANMP/CEDIP courses from beginners to advanced divers. Qualified instructors, passionate, supervise groups of 4 divers. You embark either on a 9.6 m aluminium barge, approved for 19 divers or on a 10 m aluminium barge for 21 divers. Their powerful motorisation allows them to get to the sites quickly, with safe launches. Regular trips are made to the wreck of the Joachim, a 16-meter long sailing boat, which lies on a 20-meter seabed opposite the hotel. You will enjoy a house reef with a gently sloping seagrass bed, colonised by turtles. In the morning, the drift dives are dedicated to certified divers, along the outer walls of the reef, up to 40 meters deep. The current is checked as soon as the boat arrives at the best spots in Mayotte, by the instructors. Expect good visibility with lots of life: barracudas, rays, groupers, small reef sharks. In the afternoon, you reach the south of the Mayotte Lagoon, after a 5 to 10-minute boat ride. Explore by diving and snorkelling wonderful coral gardens teeming with multicoloured fish and turtles. The coral reefs go down from the surface to 25 meters. Sometimes you will see dolphins on the way to the boat. Ask for night dives to see the small fauna of the Seychelles that you rarely see during the day with shrimps, crabs, pencil urchins and Spanish dancers. [+]

Cetacean Watching Lda is located in Madalena, on Pico Island, Azores. It is located 20 m from the boats, in the center of the marina. Open from March to October, Cetacean Watching Lda offers changing rooms, equipment storage, a classroom, showers, and toilets. Equipment rental is available. Cetacean Watching Lda organizes a package for you to stay with or without diving to see dolphins and/or whales, including 7 nights in a double room in Bed&Breakfast, 3 Whale Watching trips, 1 guided land tour to the lookout, 1 guided tour to Malcolm Clarke's Sperm whale and Squids' Museum and transfers to the airport It is best to stay 7 nights in Pico. Embark from early June to mid-July, on semi-rigid boats from 8 to 24 pax, to observe the sociable behavior of sperm whales and swim with dolphins. The aluminum boat of Cetacean Watching Lda is used for scuba diving. About 20 species of cetaceans pass through Pico, in the center of the Azores, with a 97% success rate in observing them. In July and August, the sea trip lasts 3 hours, and includes 2 to 3 snorkeling dives. You swim with bottlenose dolphins, Atlantic spotted dolphins, common dolphins, Risso's dolphins, striped dolphins. From July to mid-October, trips are organized, depending on the weather, to Princess Alice with a departure at 7 am for a 2h30 trip. This shoal rising from 1,000 meters to 35 meters below the surface, 45 nautical miles from Pico, allows beautiful encounters with Mobula tarapacana, Manta birostris, tunas, barracudas, and sharks. Due to strong currents, you descend along a line. Snorkeling is possible because the rays come up to the surface! [+]

The diving centre le Dodo Palmé is located in Le Port, north of Saint-Gilles on the west coast of Reunion Island. Take advantage of a beautiful and vast infrastructure with changing rooms, showers, toilets, a classroom, a nitrox inflation room, a shop to buy equipment, bar. Parking spaces allow you to park and unload your equipment more easily. A BBQ area allows you to have a good time after the dives. Because here, conviviality is the rule. Regular snorkelling trips are offered, depending on the season. From July to October, don't miss the dolphin and whale watching and swimming trips. You will be accompanied by a guide and volunteers from the TENDUA association for the protection of biodiversity to learn more about the behaviour of cetaceans. Dodo Palmé is the ideal place to make your first dive because the guides are reassuring. Then, persevere in your efforts because the Dodo Palmé training centre offers FFESSM certifications from level 1 to level 3. Experienced divers appreciate the explorations which take place between the bay of Possession and the entrance to Saint-Leu with an outing comprising two dives. This large exploration area allows you to go to sites less frequented by other boats, take refuge in appropriate corners according to the weather, to enjoy yourself according to the mood of the moment! Because the instructors of the Dodo Palmé diving club aim to please you! You can take your boat licence here. Possibility to go diving in Madagascar on board a cruise boat following a partnership between the diving providers. [+]

Dragon Dive Komodo hotel is located in a quiet corner of the main Marina area in Labuan Bajo, Fores Island, Indonesia. You are just a stone's throw from the town center, with the night market and the main port of embarkation to the Komodo Islands. Nice beaches are 6 km away, a 20-minute drive by scooter. Open all year round, the Dragon Dive Komodo training center offers PADI courses from Discover Scuba Diver tonight, side-mount and photo diving specialties. Sessions take place either in the pool, on day trips, or onboard the cruise ship. The best thing to do is to stay at the Dragon Dive Komodo as 18 double private rooms of 20 to 30 m2, reserved for divers. They are equipped with a double or twin bed, a private bathroom with hot water, air-conditioning, and laundry service on-site for your personal belongings, either overlooking the pool or the backyard. Breakfast is served in the restaurant around the pool. The bar is a great place to meet and mingle with other guests and enjoy fruit juice, mixology famous cocktails, or a cold Bintang beer on your way back from a day of diving. A meal with Asian and Western specialties is served on-site in the evening. The next morning we depart at 7 am for a full day of 2 to 3 dives in the Komodo National Park. The groups are composed of 4 to 5 divers for more safety and conviviality. The last dive is replaced at your request by a trek to Rinca Island to discover the Komodo dragons. Non-divers have the possibility to snorkel and wakeboard. Do you have 5 days to spare? Go on the Dragon Dive Shenron cruise boat. [+]