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LATEST:Travel picture of the week - Hout Bay in Cape Town |
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LATEST:Travel picture of the week - Hout Bay in Cape Town |
Our SCUBA diving programme will take you from never having dived before to becoming a PADI Dive Master. This is an internationally recognised qualification and one that will allow you to work at almost any dive centre in the world. Expert instruction in the pool, classroom and ocean will see you grow as a diver and give you the bug to keep discovering the thrills and sights of the underwater world.
The list of qualifications achievable is as follows:
- PADI Open Water Diver
- PADI Advanced Diver
- PADI Emergency First Response – Primary & Secondary Care
- PADI Rescue Diver
- PADI Dive Master
You will be collected from your accommodation by your instructor each morning and returned back there at the end of the day. Whether you’re in the pool, in the ocean or at the dive centre itself you’ll be in great company among the Pro Divers team and can also always call on the Pepper guides to help you out with any queries.
The week by week schedule includes off-days to keep you fresh and so you can take advantage of Cape Town’s many other things to see and do but if the conditions are right and you’re keen to dive, there’s always a boat you can jump on to head out and hit the deep!
Pro Divers are based in the centre of Cape Town. They operate a PADI 5 star dive centre which is also the only one around with National Geographic status. They have a full-time team dedicated to providing great diving experiences and top-class instruction. Co-founders Ulrich and Pieter, who have over 30 years of diving experience between them under their weight belts have designed our 7 week course exclusively to allow you to progress as much as possible as a diver, whatever your initial level may be.
- 7 weeks of diving with an unlimited amount of dives in over 40 dive sites
- Practical first-hand experience of working within the recreational diving industry
- Qualifications for life allowing you to work in some of the most exotic locations on the planet
The Cape Peninsula has a different ocean on either side of it whose contrasting currents make for a huge diversity in underwater life...
The Atlantic’s Benguela current on the west of the peninsula is home to huge kelp forests rising up from the ocean floor and you’re likely to spot rays, dolphins and two types of shark; the small cat shark and the brilliantly named Seven Gill Cow shark. The highly inquisitive Cape fur seals also make regular appearances and will often get up close and personal with you.
The warm Agulhas current on the False Bay side of the peninsula provides plenty of great reef dives with more seals and stingrays and lots of colourful reef life. False Bay is also close to the highest known populations of white sharks anywhere in the world and the chance to see these prehistoric beasts breaching is a really special and unique dive experience.
The infamous Cape of Storms has signalled the end of around 2,700 ships’ lives and many of these ships provide excellent wreck diving opportunities. Some are perfect for beginners and available as shore dives such as The Clan Stuart Wreck (1914) but there are many others of varying difficulty right up to the Lusitania, a Portuguese liner which sank off Cape Point in 1911 and is a very challenging but hugely rewarding wreck dive in the right conditions.
Check out some stories from guys that have been diving with us before, click here.