Garden Route Scuba

🌊 Mossel Bay is looking absolutely spectacular! 🤿

Crystal-clear water, beautiful dive sites and perfect conditions. 😍

Want to come and see it for yourself? Give Garden Route Scuba a shout and let’s go diving! 🐠💙

📞 066 430 0354

Before the rain rolled in, we managed to squeeze in an awesome dive at Santos Reef yesterday! 🌊🐠

A big group of divers, plenty of smiles, and some seriously cool underwater encounters! 😍

🦈 Shysharks making an appearance
🪸 A beautiful nudibranch spotted on the reef
🤿 Great conditions and an even better bunch of divers!

That’s what we call making the most of a good weather window! 💙

Ready to get underwater with us?

📞 Call/WhatsApp Garden Route Scuba: 0664300354

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Staff Instructor - Done
Master Instructor - Loading
Course Director - Pending

A huge congratulations to Reel van der Merwe on achieving the prestigious PADI IDC Staff Instructor rating!

This milestone represents three years of dedication, hard work, and a passion for developing the next generation of scuba professionals. It's another exciting chapter in the Garden Route Scuba story.

A very special thank you to PADI Course Director Peter Herbst , whose guidance, mentorship, patience, and encouragement over the past six years have played an enormous role in helping me grow—not only as an instructor, but also in building Garden Route Scuba into the success it is today.

Peter, your belief in me and your willingness to share your knowledge have made a lasting impact. Thank you for being an incredible mentor and friend.

Here's to many more instructors, divers, and adventures ahead! (...and Ice creams at The Point!)

🌊 Turn Your Passion Into Purpose 🌊

Ready to take your diving to the next level? Join our Dive Master Marine Biology Internship on the breathtaking Garden Route, South Africa. This is more than just a course—it’s an opportunity to build a career, gain real-world experience, and make a meaningful impact in ocean conservation.

Train with a PADI 5-Star Dive Centre, develop professional dive leadership skills, and immerse yourself in hands-on marine research, conservation projects, and unforgettable underwater experiences.

📍 Mossel Bay, Garden Route
📞 +27 66 430 0354
📧 [email protected]

Start your journey today—explore, learn, conserve, lead.

🌙🤿 Things get a little… fishy after dark 👀

Our students just swapped sunshine for torchlight and WOW… the ocean at night is a whole different vibe 🔦✨
From curious creatures to “did that just move?!” moments 😅 — night diving is where the magic (and a little adrenaline) happens!

Ready to level up your diving and join the dark side? 🌊🌑
Come do your PADI Night Diver Specialty with us and see what you’ve been missing…

📩 DM us to book
📞 066 430 0354 

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Turn your school holiday into an adventure and become a certified PADI Open Water Diver! 🤿

Explore the underwater world, learn new skills, make new friends, and create memories that will last a lifetime.

📞 Contact Reel: 066 430 0354 📧 [email protected]

Dive into Adventure with our PADI DiveMaster & Marine Biology Training Program!
Are you passionate about the ocean and marine life?
Take the plunge with our comprehensive PADI DiveMaster & Marine Biology Training Program — an immersive experience combining world-class dive training and hands-on marine science!

📅 Next Intake: 01 July 2026 (Monthly there after)
📍 Location: Garden Route Scuba – Mossel Bay, South Africa
Why join us?
🔹 Get certified as a PADI DiveMaster at a 5-star Instructor Development Centre
🔹 Hands-on marine biology fieldwork and conservation experience
🔹 Skippers training & seamanship SAMSA Category C (15NM) Skipper’s License training* PLUS Small Vessel Familiarazion Course (Pre-Sea)
🔹 Participate in exciting research projects:
• ELMO Elasmobranch Egg Case Collection & Analysis
• Shark Tagging with ORI (Oceanographic Research Institute), Head out aboard deep sea vessel "Salt Life Fishing" , Learn hands-on how to catch, handle, measure, tag, and safely release sharks, Participate in a citizen science tagging initiative.
• Baited Shark Dive + B.R.U.V. Operation, Scuba dive with shy sharks and deploy and retrieve a Baited Remote Underwater Video (B.R.U.V.). Learn how to set up and operate this tool used to observe shark behaviour
• Intertidal Transect Studies
• Microplastics Sampling & Processing via Density Separation
• Volunteer at SAPREC – Seabird & Penguin Rehabilitation Centre
• White Shark Cage Diving with White Shark Africa. Depart on shark cage dive vessel “First Strike” & experience Mossel Bay’s Great White Sharks from a cage.
🔹 Gain specialty certifications:
• PADI AWARE Dive Against Debris® (Beach & Dive Cleanups – PIC optional)
• PADI Nudibranch Research Diver (Sea slug data collection – PIC optional)
• PADI Nudibranch Research Diver (Sea slug data collection – PIC optional)
• PADI Aware Shark Conservation – "Sharks in Peril and why should we care"
🔹 Get SCUBA training and certification from beginner to pro level
🔹 Complete your Emergency First Response (EFR) and become a certified First Aid Provider

💙 Don’t miss your chance to turn your passion into a career! Register now and embark on a journey beneath the waves.

🔗 Full Program Details: www.gardenroutescuba.co.za/marinebio
📞 +27 (0)66 4300 354
📧 [email protected]

Sharks, sharks and more sharks during our Shark week program

www.gardenroutescuba.co.za/marinebio to join