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Discover Scuba Diving
A half day, one real dive in the sea, no certification and no commitment. If you have ever wondered whether you would be calm down there, this answers it.
Duration
1 day
Dives
1
Max depth
12 m
Min age
10
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Courses & packages
We price at the top of the Sri Lankan market and then include six things every other centre bills separately. Competitor rates are printed next to ours below — verified from their own published lists, not estimated.
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No certification needed
Start here
One day, one real dive, no exam and no commitment. Roughly six in ten of the people who do this come back for the Open Water within a week.
PADI
Bubblemaker
For eight to ten year olds. Two metres of water, scaled-down kit, and one instructor per child.
Duration
1 day
Dives
1
Max depth
2 m
Min age
8
PADI certification
The licences
Recognised in every country that has water. Open Water is the one that matters — after it you can rent gear and dive to eighteen metres anywhere, for life.
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PADI Open Water Diver
The licence. Four days, four open-water dives, and at the end of it you can rent gear and dive to eighteen metres anywhere in the world, for life.
Duration
4 days
Dives
4
Max depth
18 m
Min age
10
PADI
PADI Scuba Diver
Half of Open Water, for people who are short on days. Certifies you to twelve metres under a professional's supervision, and upgrades to full Open Water later for the difference.
Duration
2 days
Dives
2
Max depth
12 m
Min age
10
PADIRequires PADI Open Water Diver or equivalent
PADI Advanced Open Water
Five dives, thirty metres, no exam. Deep and navigation are compulsory; you pick the other three. This is the card that unlocks Kotuwa Gala and the SS Rangoon.
Duration
2 days
Dives
5
Max depth
30 m
Min age
12
PADIRequires PADI Advanced Open Water + EFR within 24 months
PADI Rescue Diver
The course every instructor will tell you was the hardest and the best. You stop watching fish and start watching divers.
Duration
3 days
Dives
4
Max depth
30 m
Min age
12
Specialties
Go deeper, darker, or closer
Short courses that unlock a specific kind of diving. Every one of these is taught on a real site that suits it, not a generic sandy patch.
PADI
Emergency First Response
CPR, AED and secondary care. Required for Rescue Diver, and useful for the rest of your life.
Duration
1 day
Dives
None required
Max depth
—
Min age
12
PADIRequires PADI Advanced Open Water
PADI Wreck Diver
Four dives on real wrecks — the Rangoon and the Orestes in the south, Irakkandy in the east. Line laying, penetration technique, and how not to silt out a compartment.
Duration
2 days
Dives
4
Max depth
30 m
Min age
15
PADIRequires PADI Advanced Open Water
PADI Deep Diver
Forty metres, properly. Gas planning, narcosis awareness, and staged safety stops on Kotuwa Gala and Deep Sand.
Duration
2 days
Dives
4
Max depth
40 m
Min age
15
PADIRequires PADI Open Water Diver
PADI Night Diver
The reef swaps shifts at dusk. Parrotfish spin mucus cocoons, morays come out to hunt, and the coral polyps open. Three dives after dark.
Duration
2 days
Dives
3
Max depth
18 m
Min age
12
PADIRequires PADI Open Water Diver
PADI Underwater Photographer
Shot at Butterfly Rock and Knife Rock — the macro site and the wide-angle site — with an edit session between them.
Duration
2 days
Dives
3
Max depth
18 m
Min age
10
PADIRequires PADI Open Water Diver
Enriched Air Nitrox
Free with any Advanced, Rescue, Wreck, Deep or Divemaster booking, and $110 standalone. More bottom time at depth, less fatigue afterward.
Duration
1 day
Dives
None required
Max depth
40 m
Min age
12
Going pro
Work on the boat
The first rating you can be paid for. Four to six weeks on our boats every day, and if your dates cross the season change, at both bases.
PADIRequires PADI Rescue Diver, EFR, 40 logged dives
PADI Divemaster
Four to six weeks working every day on our boats. The first professional rating — you finish it able to guide certified divers and assist courses, and eligible to be paid for it.
Duration
4–6 weeks
Dives
40
Max depth
40 m
Min age
18
Technical
Fifty-three metres
One dive site, one programme, and a certification check before we take your money.
TDIRequires TDI/IANTD Normoxic Trimix + 100 logged dives. Wreck penetration cert for interior.
HMS Hermes Technical Expedition
Two dives on the world's first purpose-built aircraft carrier, fifty-three metres down off Batticaloa since 9 April 1942. The most serious dive in Sri Lanka.
Duration
2 days
Dives
2
Max depth
53 m
Min age
18
Certified divers
Fun-dive packages
Every price includes boat, tanks, weights, full rental kit, dive computer and a guide. Packages do not expire within the season and work across both coasts — buy ten in Trincomalee in September, use four of them in Unawatuna in January.
| Package | Dives | Per dive | With our kit | Own kit − 10% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Single Boat Dive One guided boat dive with kit, computer and guide. No package commitment. | 1 | $55 | $55 | $49 | Book |
Two-Tank Morning Two tanks, one morning, two different sites with a surface interval on the boat. | 2 | $48 | $95 | $85 | Book |
Five-Dive Pack Five dives at $44 each. Valid across both coasts and does not expire within the season. | 5 | $44 | $220 | $198 | Book |
Ten-Dive Pack Ten dives at $41 each. The point where diving stops being an excursion and starts being the holiday. | 10 | $41 | $410 | $369 | Book |
Twenty-Dive Pack Twenty dives at $38 each — our lowest per-dive rate. Transferable between two people on the same booking. | 20 | $38Lowest rate | $760 | $684 | Book |
- 1 ·
- A first dive back after a break
- 2 ·
- Most people, most days
- 5 ·
- A one-week stay
- 10 ·
- Two weeks, or a serious fortnight
- 20 ·
- Long stays and dive couples
Everything else
- $75
Night boat dive
Torches and marker lights included
- $38
Pigeon Island snorkel trip
3 hours. Park entry paid separately to DWC
- $28
Unawatuna Rocks snorkel
2 hours, boat and guide
- $55
Blue whale & dolphin safari
Trincomalee, May–October. Dawn departure
- $120
Reef Restoration Dive
Two dives. Fee funds the nursery
- $65
Turtle Nest Patrol
Night programme, December–April
- $85
Scuba Review / refresher
Half day for certified divers out of the water 12 months+
Fees that aren't ours
Government and agency fees, listed rather than buried. Park entry is collected by the Department of Wildlife Conservation at the jetty and we never mark it up.
- LKR 13,000
Pigeon Island National Park entry — adult
Paid to Dept. of Wildlife Conservation
- LKR 6,500
Pigeon Island National Park entry — child under 12
Paid to Dept. of Wildlife Conservation
- Included
PADI certification card processing
Paid to PADI
- LKR 2,500
Bar Reef Sanctuary permit
Paid to Dept. of Wildlife Conservation
Not sure which one?
Tell us how many days you have and whether you have dived before. We will tell you honestly whether the course fits the time — including when the answer is that it does not.