Scuba-diving
Why not explore the underwater world on a guided dive or learn how to dive during your holiday at La Manga Club? Based at Las Lomas Village and open from Easter until November, Adventure Divers is a dive centre specialising in personal scuba instruction and guided dives. Adventure Divers offers its clients a complete range of PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) diver training courses from beginner up to Dive Master level, including various advanced speciality courses, refresher courses and children's courses for those as young as eight years old. Escorts to recommended dive sites are available to qualified divers as well as novices wishing to experience the underwater delights.
Nearby in Cabo de Palos, there are other PADI dive centres, which offer diving tuition and diving experiences virtually all year round.
A Unique Underwater World
This part of the Spanish coast has an abundance of safe, clear and warm waters. The proximity of the Atlantic ocean results in a rich and unique blend of Atlantic and Mediterranean sea life, where you can encounter species such as moray eels, groupers, barracuda, rays, octopus and occasionally turtles or sunfish, along with numerous varieties of colourful smaller fish. You will also find some of the prettiest types of both hard and soft coral together with nudibranches and sea slugs, common to this area.
These sheltered, non-tidal waters provide an ideal environment to learn how to scuba-dive or to advance on skills and qualifications already acquired.
The Islas Hormigas marine reserve, which is a protected area, boasts some of Spain's best diving, with an average visibility of 12 to 15 metres and water temperatures ranging from 16ºC in winter to a gorgeous 30ºC in the height of summer.
With over ten interesting local dive sites to choose from, all located within a short minibus or boat ride from La Manga Club, you will be spoilt for choice. This extensive area will provide any diver with a selection of shore, boat and marine dives, night dives, wreck and deep dives!
Equipment
Adventure Divers* uses a comprehensive range of Scubapro and other world-renowned diving equipment for adults and children, available both to participants on courses at the dive school and for hire.
Dive Courses
At Adventure Divers there is a wide range of PADI courses available, ranging from as little as two hours to two weeks or more. Special courses for children aged eight and over are also available.
Discover Scuba-diving
(Pool and sea, four hours)
Ideal for those with a morning or afternoon free to experience the underwater world. After a short session in the pool, where you practise a few skills with a qualified PADI instructor, you will be taken for a gentle shore dive in the clear, warm waters full of aquatic life under the close supervision of your instructor. For ages twelve years and above.
Bubblemaker Experience for Kids
A completely safe and fun way for your children to build their confidence in water. Your child will get to use professional scuba diving equipement (in miniature) in the safe environment of a pool. They will spend 2 hours being shown how to use the equipment and have fun swimming through hoops, finding objects and playing games, all under the close supervision of an experienced PADI instructor.
Open Water Course
(Three to four days)
This is the most popular dive course in the world and is a full certification. With standards set by PADI, the world's number one dive organisation, you'll learn all the essential and basic rules that all safe divers abide by. Everyone who can swim, is in good health and reasonably fit can earn a PADI Open Water Diver certification. For ages twelve years and above.
Other Courses
- Scuba Diver (two days) - A sub-course within the Open Water Diver course that allows you to become a PADI certified diver
- Advanced Open Water Diver (two days, or three if taken with Emergency First Response course)
- Emergency First Response (one day) - A basic 'must have' for all serious divers
- Rescue Diver (four days) - The most important recreational PADI certification of all
- Dive Master (three to six weeks +) - The PADI Dive Master certification
- Speciality Diver Courses:
These include deep, boat, night, peak performance buoyancy, dive computer, underwater photographer, enriched air, multi-level, underwater naturalist, underwater navigation and wreck diver...
Diving Experiences for the Qualified
Shore Dives
There are shore dives only a 10-minute drive from La Manga Club on the edge of a marine reserve, where there is an abundance of marine life, good rock formations and swim-throughs. The visibility is on average 12-15 metres and the water temperature is an average of 21ºC. If you haven’t dived for some time, a scuba review, where you can have an instructor run through the basic skills and regain your confidence and refresh your memory, is highly recommended so you can enjoy a gentle shore dive.
Boat Dives
The boat dives are mostly within the “Islas Hormigas” marine reserve which is a protected area and boasts some of Spain's best diving. There is also a huge variety of marine life, ranging from large groupers, morays eels and eagle rays to the odd sighting of turtles and sun fish along with an abundance of smaller fish. There are also some fantastic wrecks for more experienced divers!
For further information and reservations, contact the
Adventure Divers: +34 968 338 485
*Adventure Divers is an independent company and is not managed by La Manga Club.
