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Octopus Scuba School

(English)

Service:
  • Accommodation for Divers
  • Diving Charter Boat
  • School Course Learn to Dive
  • Vacation Holiday Scuba Diving
  • Wreck Diving
Company description Octopus Scuba School is the dive holiday for those wishing to either step into the water for the first time, `discover scuba`, complete the open water certification or further their diving education through the PADI system (most specialities, Advanture/Advance, EFR, Rescue, Divemaster, Assistant Instructor), or simply to have fun as certified divers.
For the non-diver we offer snorkelling trips along the stunning coastline taking the boat through caves and swimming with the beautiful fish living in these waters. (In July we had a pod of 15 and 6 dolphins here to say hello!).
*Accommodation
All rooms are on a bed and breakfast basis (full English) with all the facilities for lunch and dinner although we have many bars and restaurants nearby. The villa is brand new with 1 double with ensuite, 2 twin letting rooms plus our new family room with ensuite that sleeps 4 people, a beautiful terrace for afternoon napping that surrounds the new swimming/dive pool, together with teaching facilities in the new pool house which also has tv, cooking facilities and further showers.
*Travel
Flights with Ryanair from most airports to Gerona from as little as 4.99 each way. All accommodation includes free airport transfers from Gerona.
*Holidays
Your holiday begins when we pick you up by our 9 seater people carrier from Gerona airport.
Once settled in your rooms you will be invited to a free cocktail/sangria/mucho beer night on the terrace by the pool. During this evening you will be able to orientate the centre and be briefed on your exciting week ahead.
All our dives are accompanied by either Barry, Divemaster or Jane, Staff Instructor or even both depending on the dive level. The dives will either be shore, through beautiful reefs and coves swimming with marine lifeor by our 8.5m dive rib, `THE BIG BLUE`, visiting sites seen only by the lucky few and wrecks teaming with fish plus two dives at he world famous marine park of the Medes Isles, where the fish are on steroids and on par with the Red Sea.
After a great mornings diving you may want to visit sites around the beautiful Costa Brava (we can arrange car hire at great rates), these could include Pals (medieval village, very pretty), Estartit (home to our boat), Palamos (great for shopping) , the Salvador Dali museum or just a lovely beach.
Or you may wish to taste the local Spanish cuisine for menu del dia (menu of the day) to beak your pockets at 8 euros for a five course lunch with all the wine and water you want!
Or you can just crash out by the pool and cook!
Location description: Our dive sites:
*Max 23M boat dive
The old tugboat Boreas lies on the south west slope of the Llosa de Palamos, in a sandy corridor at a depth of 31 metres. The Boreas, originally named pallworm, was a 40 metre seagoing tugboat that belonged to the German Navy during the Second World War. After the war it was put to civilian use and in 1980, under a Panamanian flag, it was rebaptised Boreas. After a somewhat checkered history, it was eventually confined to port by the authorities for drug dealing, and remained moored in the port of Palamos in a state of total abandonment for three years. The owners of the Nautilus Diving Centre of Palamos and of the diving centre at the camp site of La Coma decided that the ship could be used to promote scuba diving in the area and so started taking the steps necessary to sink the hulk of the old tugboat at a spot accessible to divers and where it would not be a danger for shipping of fishing. After buying the ship and obtaining the necessary licences, they proceeded to decontaminate the craft and to prepare it for sinking, an operation that lasted several months. The engine room was partially broken up, while partitions and pipes that could be a danger to divers were eliminated and, finally, the masts were cut down, as their height would have been a danger to shipping. On the 23rd January 1989,. The ship was sunk in the area where the Llosa of Palamos falls abruptly to a depth of 20 metres and the sandy seabed begins. The Boreas can only be explored from a boat. To locate the wreck, head to the beacon marking the Llosa of Palamos. From there, proceed about 200m SW to the bouy that marks the location of the sunken ship. On days when the waters are especially clear the wreck is visible from the surface.
*SA TUNA
The beach of Sa Tuna is, together with the cala de Aiguagreda, one of the most accessible places of the coast for diver with little experience. It is a pleasant beach, well sheltered from all winds and closed to the east by the point of Es Plom. The beach is quite large, with single and coarse sand. Showers, bars and a telephone are also found here.
A cliff path circles the beach of Sa tuna, to the right- south (towards the small beach of S`Eixugador) and to the left - north (leading to the Cala of Aiguafreda). The beach of S`Eixugador opens onto the south west corner of this bay, which is difficult to get to by land, Next to this little beach is the Cave of Sant Pau.
You can take the car down to the beach to unload the equipment, and there is a marked parking lot quite near the beach. For over a near, a notice at the entrance to the beach diving is forbidden from 1st June to 30th September.
There are buoys separating the anchoring and bathing areas on the northern side and there is a small jetty for dropping off passengers. Due to the conditions of this cala, with its sheltered waters, sailing boats frequently anchor here.
...and many more.
Contact information:
Phone: 0034 972636504
Fax: 0034 649046490
Street Address:
513 Mas Tomassi
Pals
Gerona
Spain
17256
Spoken language(s): English
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  GMT + 1 Berlin, Rome, Madrid, Paris, Warsaw

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