Diving in South Africa?

Anyone have any tips or wisdom to pass on about diving in South Africa?
Places to go, recommended dive shops?

cheers.

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It's been about 3 years since I was diving out there, but my two penny's
worth is:

1) Cape Town, a lovely place to visit, there are a few dive centres around.
The one the club used was Table Bay Diving. If I was going back I would NOT
use them - very hit & miss,

2) Aliwal Shoal (Umkomaas) - dived there with the whaler dive centre
(www.wahler.co.za), had many a good dive and night with them. They will also
take you out to Sodwana Bay (no wrecks - but very large reefs & fish).

3) Also if you get the chance, go out there for the sardine run, we caught
the start of it. What a lovely site of 50+ dolphins swimming with you, along
with a large number of sharks (more interested in the sardines than divers).

Have fun diving out there.

Ian

"Mike Tomlinson" <mike@NOSPAM.jasper.org.uk> wrote in message
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> Anyone have any tips or wisdom to pass on about diving in South Africa?
> Places to go, recommended dive shops?
>
> cheers.
>
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Mike Tomlinson wrote:
> Anyone have any tips or wisdom to pass on about diving in South Africa?
> Places to go, recommended dive shops?
>

Where will you be in SA and at what time of the year?

Let me know and I'll make some recommendations...

Table Bay Diving has changed owners, so your future experiences there
may be different.

Also, the place in Umkomaas is "The Whaler" (www.whaler.co.za).

rgds
monty
(based in Cape Town)

On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 05:24:43 -0700, monty wrote:

> Where will you be in SA and at what time of the year?
>
> Let me know and I'll make some recommendations...

I'm going too. I'll be there in Jan, flying into J'oburg and out of Cape
Town. I'll have been doing some reef diving in Australia, so would be more
interested in doing different stuff.

Are there any caves dives there that aren't stupid depths?

Jason

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Jason wrote:
> Are there any caves dives there that aren't stupid depths?

None in Cape Town.

A few hours' drive from Johannesburg is:

Wondergat (http://www.delportdupreez.co.za/divi...wondergat.html)

Badgat (www.technicaldivingafrica.com)

rgds
monty

Mike Tomlinson wrote:
> Anyone have any tips or wisdom to pass on about diving in South Africa?
> Places to go, recommended dive shops?
>
> cheers.
>

Hibiscus coast in KwaZulu natal region is very popular (sharks, turles,
rays...). See
http://www.wannadive.net/spot/Africa...ibiscus_Coast/
Chris