KA Kandu Dive Centre Two dives every morning, courses that take as long as they take
Fulidhoo, Vaavu

Two dives every morning, and the sites chosen on the day

Ten divers, two guides in the water, and a first dive that is a check dive whoever you are. Courses run four students to an instructor and take as long as they take.

The diary

What is on the board

Boats, courses and pool sessions. Requesting a place takes the tank off the board straight away.

The numbers we do not move

Four to an instructor

On every course, in every week, however many bookings we turn away for it.

Ten on the boat

Two guides in the water, groups arranged by experience rather than by who arrived together.

Eighteen hours before a flight

The last day of your stay is planned around your departure, not the other way round.

A card and a logbook

We ask for both. So should anybody you dive with, anywhere.

4
Students per instructor
10
Divers on the boat
3
Channels within reach
2016
Teaching here since
Divers

What people write afterwards

They put me in a different group from my wife because our experience was different, explained exactly why, and both of us had a better week for it.

A Anders H Norway

Four of us on the course with one instructor, and she gave my brother an extra morning in the pool without being asked and without charging for it.

S Sofia and Luis Portugal

Turned me down for the channel dive on my second day and put me on it on my sixth. By then I understood why, and it was the dive of my life.

R Ravi K India
Before you book

Asked at the counter every day

Do you need my certification card

Yes, and your logbook. Any centre that does not ask for both is a centre to think twice about.

A photograph of the card on your phone is fine. If you have lost it, most agencies can reissue it online in a day and we will help you do it at the counter.

I am certified but have not dived for years

Then book the refresher hour in the pool. We suggest it to anybody past twelve months and insist past three years.

It is not a sales tactic. What goes rusty first is mask clearing and weighting, and finding that out in a pool is far better than finding it out on a wall in a current.

What is included in a two tank morning

Two dives, tanks, weights, two guides in the water, fruit, water and tea. Ten divers at most.

A jacket, regulator, mask and fins are the equipment package, and a computer and wetsuit are hired separately. Bring your own mask if you own one.

Can I do the channel drift

If you have twenty logged dives, a reef hook and a computer you can read, yes. If not, not this week, and we will say so even if you are annoyed about it.

The current is the entire point of that dive and it is no place to be finding out how your buoyancy is.

How long is the open water course

Four days: theory, five pool sessions and four dives from the boat. Four students to an instructor and we will not run five.

If you need a fifth morning in the pool you get one at no extra charge. The course takes as long as it takes.

Is your certification accepted elsewhere

Yes. Our instructors are certified with an internationally recognised training agency and the card you leave with is accepted at any centre in the world.

The standards are not ours to change. What we decide is the ratio, the pace and whether you are ready, and on the last one we are harder than most.

Never breathed underwater

Ninety minutes in the pool, no theory and no certification, and the fee comes off the course if you go on with it.

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