Scuba Diving Gran Canaria

Extreme Sports Cafe's partner Gran Canaria Dive Academy is a Padi 5 star IDC centre and Gold Palm resort. It is also Europe’s most southern Dive Centre and is the only dive centre on the island with its own private swimming pool! This swimming pool is the perfect place for all our divers to learn or practise skills. Qualified divers or beginners, in the swimming pool you get all the time you need to learn the confidence building skills, in a safe and relaxing atmosphere. Join Extreme Sports Cafe and her partner Gran Canaria Dive Academy for an unforgettable diving holiday.

We have something to offer the whole family! Whether you're a wannabe diver, a qualified diver, you want the kids to learn to dive or just do some fun dives yourself, we have something to offer the whole family. There are even sun beds at the swimming pool for divers or family & friends of divers who do not want to dive, but enjoy the warm Gran Canaria sun.

Scuba Diving is a fantastic way for the whole family to explore the amazing marine life that our oceans have to offer. For so many people the water's edge is the limit, for scuba divers and snorkelers it's just the beginning, the world that lies beneath is truly amazing. You have travelled to a small Island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean which is packed full of some of the greatest marine life on the planet, so why let your adventure stop on dry land.
 
For more information on Scuba Diving Courses on Gran Canaria from Extreme Sports Cafe, please check our Scuba Diving Courses Gran Canaria page.

For more information on Scuba Diving sites on Gran Canaria from Extreme Sports Cafe, please check our Scuba Diving Holidays Gran Canaria page.

Scuba Diving Courses & Diving on Gran Canaria from Extreme Sports Cafe

All of our Scuba Diving on Gran Canaria can be booked online

Scuba Diving Gran Canaria Centre Notes

• Our partner Gran Canaria Dive Centre provides free minibus pick up and drop off, for the duration of the scuba diving course for guests. Pick up is at 9:30am and drop off time is when your are ready to go back to your hotel and not only at the end of the day, like most other dive centres offer. The minibus’s are fully insured to carry passengers and also have air conditioning.
• Our partner Gran Canaria Dive Centre are open for diving all year round and each season has something different to offer you. (Tuesday - Sunday, closed on Monday's)
• Our partner Gran Canaria Dive Centre classroom, is air conditioned and has the full PADI integrated teaching system, including a complete DVD system, overhead digital projector and a full range of PADI materials in most languages.
• There are customer lockers in the classroom, where you can store your belongings whilst you are out diving and for those more valuables items there is the safe. 
• Our partner Gran Canaria Dive Centre are the only dive centre on the island with it's own private swimming pool. The swimming pool is the perfect place for all types of dives whether you're learning or practicing your skills.
• Our partner Gran Danaria Dive Centre offer a full range of Scuba equipment rental for experienced scuba divers with sizes ranging from tiny to giant.
• Our partner Gran canaria dive Centre use a Lomac 7. 5m Zodiac for diving, dive sites on the south of the island. These dive sites are a short distance from the Dive Centre as the dive centre is located in the middle of the dive sites. From harbour to dive site in no more than 10 minutes. 

Scuba Diving Gran Canaria Course Notes

• All scuba diving course are in small groups of no more than 4 students. So you'll always have the full attention of the scuba instructor and you will receive all the help that you need to learn to scuba dive.
  
• Scuba diving course prices include scuba equipment rental and PADI registration on completion.
  
• On completion of your PADI Scuba Diving course you will receive a PADI certificate and a temporary card to take home with you, until you receive your licence by post at your given home address.
  
• Our partner Gran Canaria Dive Centre has multi lingual instructors and staff.
  
• Large groups can be catered for on request, please ask for details. All you need to bring is your swimming costume and a SMILE.

All of our Scuba Diving on Gran Canaria can be booked online 

Gran Canaria - The island of Gran Canaria is divided into the northwest and the southeast, which are two large areas different in their climate and landscape. The Canarians call this the geographical North and South. Each of the areas offers a large number of different microclimates and a great variety of natural landscapes. This is one of the main appeals of Gran Canaria. On the same day there could be sunshine and temperatures of 36 degrees on the south coast, whilst in the mountains there can be snow. 

Flights to Gran Canaria are readily available, most days from the U. K and other European countries. Flight time is only 4 hours so you're not losing half your holiday travelling.

• January to April: Water temperature is at its lowest at this time of year as is between 18 to 20 degrees. You will need a full 5 or 7mm with oversuit. And a hood is advised.
  
• April to November: Water temperature is at its highest and is between 22-25 degrees. You will need a 5mm full suit and will not require a hood, unless you really feel the cold.
  
• November to December: Water temperature is starting to drop again and is between 20 to 22 degrees. A full 5 or 7mm suit is required and if you feel the cold you may need an over suit.

Marine life you will see when you are scuba diving includes Angel Sharks, Logger Head Turtles, Common Rays, Bull Rays, Sting Rays, Manta Rays, Bottle Nose Dolphin, Common Dolphins, Octopus, Cuttlefish, Morays, Barracuda, Trumpet Fish, Parrot fish, Groupers, Puffers, Sea Horses and many more...

Scuba Diving Courses & Diving on Gran Canaria from Extreme Sports Cafe