For those who want to experience something in between scuba diving and snorkelling, our guided dives across the Andaman reefs are right up your alley.
Do you dream of diving? Our instructors don't just take you into the water - they teach you how to read it, so the reef makes sense from your very first breath. Tell us what you want out of a dive and we build the day around it.
Every dive runs to PADI standards: a proper briefing, checked kit and a guide in the water with you. Minimum age, the medical declaration and no-fly-after-diving guidance are all covered with you long before anyone gets wet.
Read moreBelow the surface or riding on top of it - every way we get you out on the Andaman water, run by a crew that knows these islands.
Every reef, wreck and wall we run trips to, on the water it is actually in. Take a pin, or a name from the list, to see how deep it drops, who can dive it and how far out the boat goes; open any one for the full site guide, with the conditions, the best season to go and the questions divers ask us most.
Your dates, your certification level and who is coming - that is enough for us to come back with the sites that will be diving well that week, the boat that suits you and what it costs.
Taught to PADI standards by instructors who dive these reefs every week - from a first breath underwater to a professional rating.
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View DetailsEvery trip we run, grouped the way people actually plan them - a first dive on a honeymoon, a week working the far reefs, a few days between the islands. Each one has its dives, its days and its price set out before you enquire, and every group opens onto its own page with the full list.
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Authorised PADI 5 Star Dive Resort in the Andaman Islands
Training, equipment and safety held to PADI’s top tier
Every course taught by a current PADI instructor
Your PADI card is accepted at dive centres the world over
Typical underwater visibility through the year, month block by month block, so you can pick your week before you pick your course. These islands dive best on the north-east monsoon; the south-west monsoon shuts most of the outer sites down.
Andaman yearly visibility chart
Visibility is a typical range, not a guarantee - the Andaman Sea gives clear days in a poor month and flat ones in a great month. Tell us the week you are thinking of and we will tell you honestly what the water has been doing.
The same 22 published sites, ranked six ways - so you can pick the water before you pick the week. Every figure is one our instructors recorded on the site itself; tap a row to read the full briefing.
Our instructors’ own order - the reefs we put divers on first. The bar is each one’s real depth range, not a score.
The top 10 of 22 sites we have this recorded for. Open the full guide
Every dive site is really a shape, and the shape is what decides how the dive feels - where you start, which way is down, and how much of it you will see. These are the four we dive in the Andamans, drawn to the same depth rule.
A slope falls away gradually, so you choose your own depth instead of the site choosing it for you. You drop in shallow, follow the coral down as far as your training and your air allow, and turn back up the same gradient - which means the shallowest, brightest water is where you finish, not where you start.
We dive it at Johnny's Gorge, Jackson Bar and Turtle Bay.
Depths are the usual working range, not a limit. Your guide sets the profile on the day from the current, the light and the certification in your hand.
Three things happen the moment you put your face under that no amount of reading quite prepares you for. They are the reason people come back up grinning.
Water drinks light from the red end first. By 5 metres red is already gone, which is why a cut bleeds green down there and why every unlit photo comes back blue. Switch a torch on at 20 metres and the reef turns back on like a light.
Depths are where the colour stops reaching in natural light.
Every 10 metres adds another atmosphere of pressure, and air squeezes to match. The breath you took at the surface is half that size at 10 metres and a quarter of it at 30 - which is why a tank lasts half as long down deep, and why the one rule nobody is allowed to break is never hold your breath on the way up.
Boyle’s law - the first thing you are taught, and the last one you forget.
Set your weights right and you hang. Not floating, not sinking - hanging, in the middle of the water, with the reef below you and nothing holding you up. After that the only steering you need is your own lungs: breathe in and you drift up, breathe out and you settle back down.
It takes most people about three dives. Then it never leaves.
Our instructors and dive guides are hand-picked to give you a genuine day in the water - taking you to the reefs they know best, with real care and attention.
Pick a date and we handle the rest - two guided dives, full kit and a boat that leaves on time.
Several days working out to the far reefs, planned around the conditions rather than a timetable.
Tell us the sites you want and we build the order, the depths and the surface intervals around them.
Learn moreThe reef at dawn, before anyone else is on it - flat water, better light and far more marine life.
Learn moreRent tested, serviced kit by the day, or bring your own and let us check it over. Sizes are fitted on dry land and logged before you get on the boat - nothing about your first descent should be a surprise.
Best first dive I could have asked for. The instructors were unbelievably patient - I panicked at four metres on the first attempt and nobody made me feel stupid about it. Second attempt went fine and I finished the course three days later.
Only one of us dives. Every other operator we spoke to had a plan where the other one sat on a beach for four days. Aqua Nomad put the snorkel line off the same boat, so we were in the same water the whole week - and by day three I had done a Discover Scuba dive too. The sunset sailing on the last evening was the best hour of the trip.
Priya and Arjun NairHoneymoon, FebruaryThey called the Dixon crossing on our first morning because of a swell, and I was quietly annoyed. We dived Jackson Bar twice instead and it turned out to be the best day of the week. Getting Dixon on day three in flat water made the point - they were right and I was wrong.
Two teenagers, neither of whom had dived. The instructors worked one-to-one with both of them for the first two dives without us asking, and my daughter has since booked her Open Water for next December. Whatever they did, it worked.
I cannot swim well and I said so when I booked. They ran the whole thing one instructor to one diver, stayed in the shallow half of the bay, and never once made it feel like a concession. I have since done the swim assessment and the full course.
Dive reports, kit notes and the practical Andaman planning we find ourselves explaining on the boat.
No. Roughly half the people who dive with us have never breathed underwater before. The Discover Scuba programmes take you out the same morning with an instructor one-to-one, to a maximum of 12 m.
The season runs October to May. December to February is flattest and busiest, March and April are our own favourite months, and we close for the monsoon rather than sell you a boat ride.
Six at most, with four divers to a guide. On the private variants it is one guide to two divers.
On every package and course listed here - BCD, regulator, wetsuit, mask, fins, tanks and weights. Bring your own mask and computer if you own them.
Eighteen hours. Every itinerary we sell is planned around it, with shallow dives on the last dive day finishing before midday.
We move it if the itinerary allows and refund it if it does not. A weather cancellation is never charged, and we make that call at the jetty rather than halfway out.
