Contact us, Los Gigantes Diving Centre, Diving Tenerife, Los Gigantes, Tenerife, Canary Islands

Dive Tenerife with Los Gigantes Diving Centre, a PADI 5 star Centre (No. S9303) and BSAC school 197. Located directly on Los Gigantes marina, which is situated on the spectacular western corner of Tenerife, Los Gigantes Diving Centre offers quality scuba diving and diving courses on a range of dive sites with something suitable for all levels of diving qualification, including hand feeding Stingrays and the turtles. The family business is operated by brother and sister Neville and Sheila Widdrington (PADI Master Instructor and BSAC 3 star Instructor) and Sheila´s son Chris. Although registered with the BSAC & PADI, scuba diving licences from all training agencies are recognised & the dive centre has all necessary permits, insurances & is a registered member of the Canary Tourist Board "La Spet". In 20 years of diving in Tenerife, Los Gigantes Diving Centre is justifiably proud of an unbroken safety record, we aim to keep it that way! The full range of BSAC and PADI diving courses are available from beginner to divemaster, as well as many speciality PADI diving courses.

The Dive Centre conducts dives from two boats, a wooden hardboat licensed for 10 divers and a smaller Zodiac RIB, both carrying all necessary safety equipment - oxygen is carried on all dives. These are both moored in Los Gigantes marina, about 30 metres away from the dive centre entrance.

The boat, for safety reasons, is never left unattended whilst divers are in the water, unlike most other outfits in Tenerife! Full diving equipment hire is available and divers are provided with weights and 10, 12 or 15 litre steel tanks.

Ocean eye video can provide a complete, professional TV quality, underwater video service available exclusively to clients of Los Gigantes Diving Centre. A souvenir video of the underwater delights of Tenerife diving, a video record of your dives, all available from Ocean eye video, filmed by videographer/instructor Sheila Widdrington. A complete professional video production service is offered by Dragonfire Productions.

We regularly visit around 20 different diving sites consisting of spectacular volcanic scenery, arches and caverns with plenty to satisfy all levels of experience. The only wrecks are the tourists at the end of their holiday! Offshore depths reach 2000 metres, beyond the reach of the most hardened "techies". We put a sensible (and legally required) depth limit of 40 metres on our dives. The only gas mix we offer is 21% oxygen 79% nitrogen "normal air". As most of our dives are of a multi-level nature, good times and safe dive profiles can be achieved.
Water temperatures vary from 24º C in summer to 19º C in winter and being sub-tropical Atlantic Ocean means that large pelagics - even Mantas are occasionally seen whilst diving Tenerife. Although there are both hard and soft corals to be seen, they are not in huge formations like the Red Sea or Caribbean.

Dives normally depart twice a day, at 10:00 and at 14:00, (closed on Sundays) always returning to port between dives. The Stingray dive is Wednesdays & Saturdays, departing at 14:00. Divers should arrive ½ an hour earlier to assemble their equipment. At peak times, we put on more dives per day and operate on Sundays as well. As the furthest dive site is a 1/2 hour boat trip from port, one dive takes no more than about 2 hours of your time - plenty of opportunity to relax in the sun or take a tour with the family to see the spectacular scenery of Tenerife.

Where is Los Gigantes?

Los Gigantes lies at 28 15 N, 16 50W, only 5 degrees north of the tropic of cancer. Situated on the west coast of Tenerife, beneath the magnificent 500 metre cliffs, Los Gigantes Diving Centre offers diving on the most sheltered part of Tenerife. The islands weather is governed by the North East Trade Winds, the cliffs and the geographical location of Los Gigantes (see map of Tenerife & photo of Los Gigantes) make the village the warmest & (most important from a diving point of view) calmest resort in Tenerife. A small resort for Tenerife, Los Gigantes does not offer the "profuse nightlife" of Las Americas, however, it offers everything a family or diving group could want and is within a reasonable travelling distance of the many attractions, other than diving, which Tenerife has to offer. Further general tourist information can be accessed from Tenerife Tourist

Diving Tenerife with Los Gigantes Diving Centre, Tenerife’s first PADI 5 Star IDC Centre, offers year-round quality scuba diving, diving courses & high safety standards in a spectacular setting, Los Gigantes, the most beautiful corner of Tenerife.