You’ll learn the basic safety guidelines and skills to dive with the supervision of a BARCELONA-DIVING professional. A Basic Diver course follows the following steps:
1- Transfer to the Costa Brava (7 o'clock in the morning). We pick you up at the door of your accommodation and take you to the Costa Brava. At the end of the activity we return you to your accommodation. So you won’t have to take a taxi or public transport to reach a meeting point, much more comfortable for you!
We arrive at the Costa Brava at 08:30h approximately. We invite you to a coffee and something light to eat.
2- Explanation by the instructor of the basic concepts of diving (approximately 30 minutes).
3- Assembly of the equipment and put on the neoprene suit.
4- Let's go diving! It is a shore dive, at a maximum depth of around 5 meters. Basic diving exercises are carried out to have more confidence and safety, and a submarine ride observing typical fauna of the Mediterranean Sea. The duration of the dive is between 40 and 50 minutes. During this dive in shallow waters with your dive instructor you will relax and get confidence to want to continue the program! You start to become a diver!
The shore dives are without a doubt the best options for someone who has never dived and we can even see more marine life than in the boat tours, which we advise against (people get dizzy and the descents to the bottom are very vertical, not helping too much to reduce the ear aches for people with difficulty in performing the maneuver to eliminate them). We recommend 100% shore dives!
5- On the same beach we will wait 1 hour to rest. During this time we explain the exercises for the next dive and you can also drink mineral water and eat something light (included in the price).
The second dive of the day will be at a maximum depth of 12 meters.
6- We can take a shower and go to eat. We will go to a restaurant to eat the typical Spanish dish, paella!
7- We return to Barcelona. Arrival in Barcelona: 16h approximately.
Our diving instructors will help you at all times and will make you underwater photos and small videos to remember. We will provide them for free.
Welcome to quality diving!
Why the Costa Brava?
Without a doubt, it is the best diving place on our coast. The diving in the city of Barcelona is not good and lacks much life... the bottom is very fine sand or mud and there is usually not good visibility.
By comparison, diving on the Costa Brava is spectacular. There is a lot of marine life and the visibility is usually very good! It is the perfect place to dive and only 1 hour from Barcelona.
WHAT CAN WE SEE OF MARINE LIFE?
These shore dives are undoubtedly one of the best dives on the Costa Brava, and we will be able to see: Moray eels, octopus, groupers, barracudas, sea horses, nudibranchs, anemone crabs, scorpion fish, large schools of common two-banded seabreams, ... many more fish than you expect! The biodiversity in this diving area is spectacular!
PREVIOUS REQUIREMENTS:
- Possibility of swimming (it is not necessary to be an Olympic swimmer!)
- Be ready to have a good time.
- Complete a medical statement in the same dive center (To be able to dive you must not have heart problems, or be asthmatic, or be diabetic or be pregnant)
- You can not fly until 18 hours after the last dive. Keep it in mind to organize your day of diving.