The Diving School
Together with our partner, the Torre Ruffa Diving Club, we have many different diving courses on offer. Beside the PADI Open Water Course and the PADI Advanced Open Water Course there is also a taster course and a "Bubblemaker" in our programme and these allow adults and children to enter the fantastic underwater world. Of course single dives and diving packets can also be booked.

The diving school is located in the new marina in Tropea, right opposite the Hotels La Pineta. The school prides itself on high safety standards and quality, with a professional team of reliable diving instructors and dive masters with years of experience. Aside from modern equipment, the customers can have English, German or Italian instruction and within a few days will be able to move confidently through the exciting underwater world.


Diving Courses

PADI DISCOVER SCUBA COURSE
The PADI Discover Scuba Diving programme is a taster course and an ideal introduction to the world of diving. In one day you will have four lessons of professional instruction and lots of fun during your first, fascinating diving experience. The first breath underwater, the weightlessness, the wonderful colours of the underwater world - you will be amazed!

Upon completion of this course you will receive a certificate which qualifies you as a Discover Scuba Diver and allows you to continue your diving career and participate in many different courses. The next step in your training would be the PADI Scuba Diver Course or the PADI Open Water Course.

PADI SCUBA DIVER COURSE
For all those who have little time or do not wish to take part in a whole diving course, there is a quick and simple solution. The PADI Scuba Diver is a pre-beginner course which is an established diving brevet and is a simplified version of the PADI Open Water Course, still allowing you to become breveted, and thus become a licensed diver in the shortest time possible. The PADI Scuba Diver brevet means that while under the supervision of a dive master, assistant instructors or diving professionals with higher training qualifications you will be able to go diving on your next holiday. This course is twelve lessons spread over three days.

PADI OPEN WATER COURSE
This course is the basic training for independent diving. During the training for this Open Water Diver we will increase your basic knowledge over five days (about 4 hours per day) and in competent company you can feel your way step by step through the underwater world. After completion of the PADI Open Water Course you are then allowed to complete various specialist courses and allowed to go diving without a diving instructor or dive master, but always with a dive partner.

PADI ADVANCED OPEN WATER COURSE
This course builds on the classic beginners' course, the PADI Open Water Diver. Over four days and a total of sixteen hours you learn additional skills and gain more experience, which is why the course makes the practice dives in different specialist areas, for example wreck dives, night diving or deep-sea diving. After successful completion of this course you will be an experienced diver able to dive in the waters of this world and the doors are open to you to undertake PADI specialist courses.