About us

Small Centre, Long Memory of This Coast

The centre was opened by two instructors who had worked seasons across half the Mediterranean and wanted somewhere they could dive the same sites often enough to know them properly. Twelve years later the site log runs to several thousand entries, which means we can tell you where the octopus dens are in June, which wall holds the best light at four in the afternoon, and which reef becomes unpleasant when the meltemi has been blowing for two days. That knowledge is the difference between a dive and a good dive.

We stayed deliberately small. Two boats carrying eight and twelve divers, four instructors and two guides in high season, and a maximum of four students per instructor on every course. Nobody is put into a group of sixteen following a guide they have never spoken to. Equipment is serviced in our own workshop on a documented schedule, cylinders are tested in date, and the compressor filters are changed on hours rather than on optimism, with air quality tested twice a season by an outside laboratory.

The kayak side started because divers' partners were sitting on the beach waiting, and it has grown into half the business. It uses the same principle: stable boats, short briefings, honest advice about wind, and routes that reward a beginner rather than punishing them. We also run the local reef clean-up, map ghost nets for the coastguard and keep a photographic record of the seagrass meadows for a marine institute.