Location: South Africa

South Africa Diving

South Africa offers spectacular diving and dive sites

South Africa offers spectacular diving. With its 3,000km coastline there are simply hundreds of dive sites and good snorkelling spots. But, even more interesting, there is lots of variety, ranging from the icy kelp forests off Cape Town to the tropical coral reefs off Sodwana Bay in KwaZulu-Natal. Diving is big in South Africa with dive shops in almost every coastal town of reasonable size.

Accommodation at the best dive sites in South Africa

Great White Shark Diving in South Africa

South Africa offers you the opportunity to dive and meet a Great White Shark, face to face - and on your own terms. Its an education and you will soon learn that this magnificent creature is in fact, highly misunderstood. It is a creature which should be more respected than feared. And if you spend some quality time with them, you will quickly learn why.

South Africa Diving Directory

  • Dive Action offers diving courses in Cape Town South Africa. Dive Action has a professional all year round diver training school with a modern lecture facility. Our retail outlet stocks all major brands of snorkel and scuba gear with plenty of great gadgets and cool dive wear. The service centre is well reputed and all sport and commercial diving equipment is attended to. Enjoy the fun and excitement aboard our boats Aqualibrium & Action Diver always operated by professionals who live for the sport.
  • Dive Nautic offers both Diving and Dolphin Encounters (viewing) excursions from Umhlanga Rocks near Durban. We launch from Grannies Pool Umhlanga daily on the hour. For a safe and exciting South Africa dive experience and to enjoy a truly friendly and professional service, DIVE NAUTIQUE looks forward to welcoming you on board soon. See you on the beach
  • Dive South Africa offers the ultimate in scuba diving adventures and African wildlife safaris. Tropical reef diving, shark diving and wreck diving holidays in South Africa and Mozambique. Dive with the Great White shark and other shark species as well as with manta and eagle rays, whales, whale sharks, dolphins and turtles.
  • Bull Shark Bonanza - 7 Days/6 Nights
    An awesome 7 day search for bull sharks in the shark infested waters of Mozambique and South Africa! Dive sites include Protea Banks and Ponta Mamoli.
  • Great White Shark Expeditions - 7 Days/6 Nights
    Hunt for the Great White Shark along the Cape Coast of South Africa - seven action packed days of diving at Mosselbaai, Gansbaai and the famous "Airjaws" of False Bay.
  • Hammerhead Shark Expeditions - 7 Days/6 Nights
    Hammerhead Sharks - we track down and dive with these elusive and graceful sharks in the barely explored waters off the coast of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.
  • Manta Ray Mission - 8 Days/7 Nights
    Join a fun loving team of scuba divers on a 8 day mission to Mozambique to find, photograph, identify, scuba dive and snorkel with as many manta rays as possible - dive with Whale Sharks!
  • Mozambique Explorer - 14 Days/13 Nights
    Tropical palm fringed powder white beaches and crystal clear waters, ideal for the scuba diver and 4x4 safari enthusiast. Loveliest and most remote dive sites to be found. The ultimate extreme scuba and 4x4 safari.
  • Sardine Run Safari - 7 Days/6 Nights
    Dive with the sardines (including the reefs, wrecks and sharks) of Aliwal Shoal, Protea Banks and Rocky Bay as they migrate northwards along the KwaZulu Natal coastline. PRICE ZAR11,000.00
  • » Shark & Seal Safari - 11 Days/10 Nights
    Combine the thrill of Great White Shark cage diving and Cape Fur Seals with the adventure of diving with Ragged Tooth, Bull, Hammerhead, Tiger and several other shark species without cages.
  • Tiger Shark Expeditions - 7 Days/6 Nights
    Join us on an unforgettable seven-day Tiger Shark diving expedition to photograph and study Tiger Sharks in the Indian Ocean off the coast of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.
  • Whale Shark Expeditions - 8 Days/7 Nights
    Mozambique - summer time is Whale Shark time - snorkel, dive and photograph these gentle giants.
  • Aliwal Shoal Experience
    Sharks, wrecks, reefs and lots of fish - a week packed with action diving. Selected as one of the top ten dives sites of the world, the Shoal offers almost anything a diver can wish for.
    1-Night/2-Dives, B&B from ZAR480.00
    2-Nights/3-Dives, B&B from ZAR790.00
    3-Nights/5-Dives, B&B from ZAR1,270.00
  • Big Five Wildlife Experience
    Land safaris and hiking with elephant, lion, leopard, buffalo, cheetah, hyena, wild dog, giraffe, hippo, crocodile and many species of antelope.
    1-Night/Game Drive, DB&B from ZAR1200.00 per person sharing per day
  • Great White Shark Cage Diving
    Experience the thrill of diving with the Great White shark in cages at Gansbaai or Mosselbaai. Come eye to eye with these awesome animals by submerging in a steel cage.
    1-Cage Dive from R1,000.00 (incl. breakfast)
    1-Night/1-Cage Dive, B&B from ZAR1,100.00
    2-Nights/2-Cage Dives, B&B from ZAR2,200.00
  • Protea Banks Shark Adventure
    High adventure diving with Tiger, Ragged Tooth, Zambezi and Hammerhead Sharks - no cages. Protea Banks is rated as one of the worlds best shark diving spots.
    1-Night/2-Dives, B&B from ZAR510.00
    2-Nights/3-Dives, B&B from ZAR820.00
    3-Nights/5-Dives, B&B from ZAR1,320.00
  • Sodwana Bay Getaway
    Lazy tropical diving in true South African style. See an abundance of tropical fish, corals, sponges, eels, schools of pelagic fish, potato bass, turtles and whales, whale sharks and dolphins.
    1-Night/2-Dives, B&B from ZAR435.00
    2-Nights/3-Dives, B&B from ZAR720.00
    3-Nights/5-Dives, B&B from ZAR1,155.00