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Happy Divers Club

Dive Centre Center (English)

Service:
  • Accommodation for Divers
  • Air
  • Diving Charter Boat
  • Equipment Gear Rentals
  • Gear Equipment Servicing
  • NITROX
  • PADI
  • School Course Learn to Dive
  • Vacation Holiday Scuba Diving
  • Wreck Diving
Authorized Dealer of:
  • Scubapro
Company description Welcome to Happy Divers Marbella & IDC College
your PADI 5* IDC Resort
& NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC center
on the Costa del Sol in Spain
The diving center is located directly at the beach of Atalaya Park Hotel with great view to Gibraltar and the Moroccan coast and has been managed by Peter Deth since 1996. Take some time, click through our program and relax. We have offers for everybody - for beginners, experienced divers and instructor training.
You are welcome.
The diving center is located directly at the beach of Atalaya Park Hotel with great view to Gibraltar and the Moroccan coast and has been managed by Peter Deth since 1996.
Happy Divers Marbella is open all year. From March until mid November the dive center is open daily from 10:00 a.m. to 19:00 h. During the winter month Happy Divers is open from Sunday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 18:00 h.
The diving center has a friendly and inviting atmosphere and has intentionally been kept as a smaller place to guarantee individual services.Scuba diving equipment has to be carried only very short distances. To pool and boat it is about 30 meters.
In 1997 Happy Divers Marbella became a Scubapro S.E.A. diving center and it is therefore one of the 210 diving centers worldwide recommended by Scubapro. Of course here you will find Scubapro diving gear and the diver can be sure that the equipment will be maintenanced regularly by trained staff.
Happy Divers Marbella is the highest rated PADI dive center on the Costa del Sol - the only PADI Gold Palm 5* IDC Resort & PADI IE location and the first ever NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC dive center in Spain. Divers are taught from beginners to instructor level.
The facilities of Happy Divers Marbella consists of 5 rooms:
Reception and Shop 1 - equipment for sale including a big variety of masks and snorkelling gear and a lot of useful accessories.
Office, Classroom & Shop 2 - here you also can find wet suits, booties, swimming fashion and a lot more
Workshop, stock & snorkelling gear for rent
Compressor-room with L & W air-compressor (Lenhard & Wagner) and the first ever built L & W NITROX Mixmaster, a membrane compressor. Both compressors fill 450 liters/ minute to 4 scuba tanks all at once. Regulators and scuba tanks are stored here as well.
Chiringuito; this is a separate building where wet suits, BCDs, fins and weights are stored; client`s wet suits and BCD`s can be hung up to dry as well.
Equipment: 15 complete Scubapro equipments are for rent:
Regulators Mk 2+, R 190 and/ or R 380 all with octopus
BCs from size XXS to XL, 7 mm wet suits from size 128 for children up to size 56 for adults
masks in 4 different sizes and full-foot and open-heel fins in all current sizes
Furthermore underwater lights, dive computers and various snorkeling sets, 35 x 12 l steel tanks for open water dives and 10 x 5 l steel tanks for pool training and scuba diving for children.
Après Diving: The Diver`s bar is situated in front of the diving center, where experiences can be exchanged before or after the dives or just to relax.
Happy Divers Marbella intents to offer their divers great and comfortable diving. Therefore got build a new and bigger boat in the beginning of 2001.
The boat named ``Happy Divers`` is a 6 meters long Bombard rib powered by a 100 hp Yamaha 4-stroke outboard engine. It gives space for up to 16 divers and is equipped with sonar and GPS, a rack for storing 10 scuba tanks and a 80 liters gasoline tank. Now it will be possible to approach comfortably also dive sites which are further away.
Location description: Dive Sites
The dive sites are approximately 5 to 30 minutes by boat or car. At present there are in total 20 dive sites, 10 sites for boat dives and 10 sites for shore dives. Happy Diver´s Club`s dive sites are spread over about 50 km of coastline, in the area between Marbella and Playa de Casares which is approx. 15 km south of Estepona. Therefore there are many different dive sites.
There are dives for all training-levels. Easy shallow-water dives for beginners as well as demanding current and/or deep dives for experienced divers. All dive sites have a different character; rocky underwater landscape, reefs and wrecks with a rich marine life can be found. Congers, groupers, seahorses, nudybranchs, spider crabs, trigger fish, sunfish and dolphins join the dives.
Interesting marine life is guaranteed, because at Costa del Sol the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean meet one another. Which means that plants and fish from both waters are found.
Following a description of some of the dive sites:
Torre Marbella (Marbella Tower)
The dive site the furthest east from the diving center is an old ironore cargo tower which has been used until the 1970s. It is about 25 minutes away by boat or car and is located close to the fishing port of Marbella.
The dive site consists of 2 towers which are about 100 m and 250 m off the shoreline in the sea. The tower closer to the shore is rarely visited by divers even though the tower`s walls are nicely covered by interesting marine life (depth 6 m).
Wrecks Marbella
Very close to ``Torre Marbella`` there are 3 wrecks quite close to each other at a depth of only 11 meters. Here you can dive on either by boat or even doing a shore dive. 2 of the wrecks are old cargo ships with a steel body. They have a length of about 60 meters each. The third wreck is a smaller sail boat which is decomposing quite quickly. There is not so much left of one of the wrecks. Here you can find the engines and a nicely covered propeller with a diameter of about 2 meters.
Barco antiguo (antique ship)
Only a 10 minutes drive away from the diving center there are the remains of an ancient ship. It is only 150 meters off the shore in a depth of 5-6 meters. The natives call it the ``Galeón`` which means galley and they tell us that the cannons were stolen years ago. Today there are remains of the wooden hull and some of the frame. Impressive is the length of the wreck of about 60 - 70 meters. The whole wreck is covered by marine plants and animals. Schools of wrasses and the Mediterranean trigger fish can be seen frequently. Furthermore all marine life which can be found on the entire Costa del Sol seems to be concentrated here. Barco antiguo is one of Happy Diver´s Club`s most interesting dive sites in terms of variety and concentration of marine life. For that and for its shallowness it is the favorite dive site of the ``diving kids``.
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PADI dive centre based in Marbella, lists information on recreational and professional instruction, children`s programs, dive site map, equipment rental and dive rates, and contacts.

Contact information:
Phone: 0034-952-88 90 00
Fax: 0034-952-88 76 33
Mobile: 0034-609 57 19 20
Street Address:
Atalaya Park Hotel
Ctra. de Cádiz, km 168,5
Marbella
Estepona
Spain
29688
Spoken language(s): English,Spanish,German
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  GMT + 1 Berlin, Rome, Madrid, Paris, Warsaw
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