Scuba Dive Tenerife

Dive Tenerife with Los Gigantes Dive Centre, a PADI 5 star Centre (No. S9303) & BSAC school 197. Located directly on Los Gigantes marina, which is situated on the spectacular western corner of Tenerife, Los Gigantes Dive Centre offers quality scuba diving & dive courses on a range of dive sites with something suitable for all levels of diving qualification, including hand feeding Stingrays. The business is owned & run by Neville Widdrington - PADI Instructor and BSAC 3 star Instructor. Although registered with the BSAC & PADI, scuba dive licences from all training agencies are recognised & the dive centre has all necessary permits, insurances & is a registered member of the Canary Tourist Board "La Spet". In 12 years of diving in Tenerife, Los Gigantes Dive Centre is justifiably proud of an unbroken safety record, we aim to keep it that way!

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Dive Courses

A full range of scuba dive courses are available (click here for more details), from beginner to divemaster, as well as many speciality PADI diving courses. The Dive Centre conducts dives from two boats, a wooden hardboat licenced for 10 divers and a smaller Zodiac RIB, both carrying all necessary safety equipment - oxygen is carried on all dives.These are both moored in Los Gigantes marina, about 30 metres away from the dive centre entrance.

About Los Gigantes

Los Gigantes lies at 28 15 N, 16 50W, only 5 degrees north of the tropic of cancer. Situated on the west coast of Tenerife, beneath the magnificent 500 metre cliffs, Los Gigantes Dive Centre offers diving on the most sheltered part of Tenerife. The islands weather is governed by the North East Trade Winds, the cliffs and the geographical location of Los Gigantes make the village the warmest & (most important from a diving point of view) calmest resort in Tenerife. A small resort for Tenerife, Los Gigantes does not offer the "profuse nightlife" of Las Americas, however, it offers everything a family or diving group could want & is within a reasonable travelling distance of the many attractions, other than diving, which Tenerife has to offer.

Underwater Videographer

The boat, for safety reasons, is never left unattended whilst divers are in the water, unlike most other outfits in Tenerife! Full diving equipment hire is available and divers are provided with weights and 10, 12 or 15 litre steel tanks. Ocean eye video can provide a complete, professional TV quality, underwater video service available exclusively to clients of Los Gigantes Dive centre. A souvenir video of the underwater delights of Tenerife diving, a video record of your dives, or even an introductory course in underwater video techniques including the PADI underwater videographer speciality qualification, all available from Ocean eye video.

The Diving

We regularly visit around 20 different diving sites consisting of spectacular volcanic scenery, arches and caverns with plenty to satisfy all levels of experience. The only wrecks are the tourists at the end of their holiday! Offshore depths reach 2000 metres, beyond the reach of the most hardened "techies". We put a sensible (and legally required) depth limit of 40 metres on our dives. The only gas mix we offer is 21% oygen 79% nitrogen "normalair". As most of our dives are of a multi-level nature, good times and safe dive profiles can be achieved. Water temperatures vary from 24 deg Celsius in summer to 19 deg Celsius in winter and being sub-tropical Atlantic Ocean means that large pelagics - even Mantas are occasionally seen whilst diving Tenerife. Although there are both hard and soft corals to be seen, they are not in huge formations like the Red Sea or Caribbean. See some of the best diving sites on Tenerife. Dives normally depart twice a day, at 10:00 and at 14:00, (closed on Sundays) always returning to port between dives, the Stingray dive (Wednesdays & Saturdays) leaves later, at 15:00, divers should arrive 1/2 an hour earlier to assemble their equipment. At peak times, we put on more dives per day and operate on Sundays as well. As the furthest dive site is a 1/2 hour boat trip from port, one dive takes no more than about 2 hours of your time - plenty of opportunity to relax in the sun or take a tour with the family to see the spectacular scenery of Tenerife.