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Diving Center

Situated in Hotel Dunas de Sal, our diving centre will offer you unforgettable diving moments.

   
 
 












Diving
Night Diving
Exploration Diving (to virgin spots)
Cave Diving
Snorkeling
Equipment hire (diving)
Surf
Surf trips (access to best surf spots in the island by boat)

 

       
   

Totally equipped with the most advanced technology, our facilities provides you what you need for a great diving experience whether you are a beginner or an experienced diver:

A private and exclusive area to store our clients equipment
Two tanks for washing material (clean water and disinfectant renovated daily).
Changing rooms and showers.
Lecture room equiped with HD overhead projector.
Estacao de enchimentos

 
       
    Our diver-training team are all qualified professionals. Our long-time experience diving in Cape Verde will make you feel confident and safe.
From a wide range of diving programmes, we highlight the diving in the caves of Palmeira and the famous diving in “Buracona” – also know as the “Blue Eye” where our team is recognized to have the most experience in Sal.
 
       
    It is possible to organize diving trips to banco de Sao Valente, uma baixa praticamente inexplorada away from the coast between the islands of Boavista and Maio. These excursions are suitable for very experienced divers only.
For the safety of all the divers, our centre is equiped with an emergency mobile oxygen kit which is carried on the boat and a fixed oxygen kit in the diving centre.
 
 
         
 

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Joao Guedes was born in 19/04/62 and has always lived near the coast where he developed important skills for water sports (reached a competitive level in some of them). His first diving course was carried in 1982 by CMAS p1 and since then he made an important progress in his diving career. He was qualified a professional instructor in 1998 by the recognized PADI organization. After working in inumerous schools and diving centres for several years, Joao Guedes decided to move to Cape Verde and formed the Dunas de Sal Diving Centre. He is actually a certificated PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainner, EFR First Aid Instructor and he specializes in deep diving, night diving, rescue diving, underwater navigation and dive in shipwrecks.


It is currently:
- PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainner
- EFR Instructor of First Aid
- Instructor of specialty:
• Deep diving
• Night Diving
• Search and recovery
• Underwater Navigation
• Diving in wreck
• Instructor of diving with enriched air (NITROX)