Customer Comments

Paul Cole Seahorse Dive Club UK

Dear Sarah, Chris and Mark, Just wanted to say thanks again for a really enjoyable weeks diving and entertainment. We couldn?t have hoped for a more helpful and considerate dive centre to look after us for a week. You took us to some excellent sites and I never really expected to see so much marine life as we did. I for one will certainly be back, so on behalf of myself, Malcolm, Steve, Graham and Bob once again, thanks. Paul Cole. p.s. Sarah, The lamb in ?It?s the wolf? was very imaginatively called Lambsy

Featured Dive Centre July 2006.

Tenerife Scuba Facilities

The Boat~Ocean Odyssey

The heart of any dive operation is the boat "Ocean Odyssey" is a 6.3m Humber Ocean Pro RIB with a Mariner Optimax outboard. For those of you into boats we think it is probably the best balanced hull and engine of any dive centre. It's fast, un laden 35 knot +, economical which means we regularly travel to dive sites most other centre's don't even if we only have a few customers on the boat. The deep V hull construction really does cut through the water giving customers a smooth enjoyable journey. As it sits low to the water line exits/entries to/from the boat are easy no clambering up ladders. Fully fitted out for diving we carry all the standard safety equipment including O2 that any cold water trained diver would expect. The boat is always manned by by a qualified boat handler. In addition to this we are the only dive centre to use a trapeze (6M) making safety/decompression stops easy no crowded anchor lines! The boat is licensed and insured to carry 10 customers and two members of staff. (This is the same for a any dive boat regardless of size) Please remember a number of dive centers claim to have their own boats they don't!

The Centre

Tenerife Scuba's centre is situated in La Estrella about a 3 min drive from Las Galletas harbour The Centre itself is approximatly 100m sq and is physically divided into dry and wet areas.

The dry area

The dry area is for administration and training and contains seating and kitchen areas, where customers are more than welcome to help themselves to tea and coffee and unlike some it's free. Customers are also welcome to use one of our multimedia PC's with internet access. Either to check emails/internet or to view and copy to CD pictures taken on dives. In the dedicated training area you have access to PADI materials, fish identification books, magazines and DVDS' along with changing and bathroom facilities

The wet area

The Wet area houses our externally vented Bauer Compressor, along with tanks (10,12 and 15L are available) a kit service area, along with changing and bathroom facilities The custom built kit rinse area, which has mains drainage, we think is basically the biggest shower tray in Tenerife. It has ample space for kit washing and storage whilst you dive with us.

We transport kit and people in separate vehicles. We tend to assemble/disassemble and check kit in the wet centre. Following the dive briefing we load it onto our pick up truck for transportation to the harbour whilst customers go in the people carrier.