Scuba diving

Dive with an instructor and state-of-the-art equipment and explore the world's incredible underwater paradises. Your children can also get a taste of this underwater adventure in total safety, with our First Dive packages.

Practical information
All you need to know to prepare for your future excursions: medical certificate and self-assessment questionnaire, equipment rental and official diplomas.
Packages include scuba tanks, BCs, fins, masks, regulators and diving belts. Lockers are also provided. And your safety is always considered, as most of our scuba resorts have a nurse and a scuba physician on premises.

DIVE IN COMPLETE SAFETY

Go diving only if you are in good health.
Documents to supply before you get going:

- Medical self-assessment questionnaire (adopted by Club Med, in accordance with PADI procedures). Can be found here, and downloaded. Fill it in with your GP. Any positive answer to a question on the form will call your fitness into question. As a last resort, the opinion of a doctor on site will be final.
- A medical certificate attesting to the absence of contraindications to scuba-diving drawn up within the last year by a doctor competent in underwater diving (sports doctor, hyperbaric doctor or a doctor authorised by a scuba-diving federation). Required for taking any 1-star or equivalent CMAS (World Confederation of Underwater Activities) advanced diplomas.
- Identical documents and conditions for “Outside of Club Med” diving offered by outside providers.

Medical examination at your expense. Don’t forget your certificates and record of dives.

The following are required for minors:

- Written authorisation from parents and a medical certificate with ENT examination drawn up in advance by a hyperbaric doctor. This certificate cannot be issued at the resort. EQUIPEMENT

Apart from in instructed or supervised diving activities (snorkelling and scuba diving), masks, flippers and snorkels are neither lent nor hired out. It is possible to hire thermal diving suits* and dive computers* at all diving centres.
Included in the Packages: cylinder and STAB (inflatable safety system), snorkels, masks, regulators and weight belts.

For scuba diving, Club Med safety standards require the activity to stop 12 hours before your return flight in PADI-certified schools.

OFF-SITE* ACTIVITIES

Activities offered by off-site providers in certain scuba resorts are at an addiotional charge.
Certain activities can be booked at the time of purchasing the Package and/or on site at the scuba resorts (particularly, at these Resorts’ Discovery Spaces). However, availability and sales conditions are those applied by the outside providers in question (particularly where prices and cancellation of these activities are concerned).
Transport to “Outside of Club Med” activities is arranged by outside providers.

Children under 8 years (12 years for water-sports) mut be accompanied by a parent/guardian at anytime during the activity.

*At an additional charge

First dives
Club Med proposes an unforgettable experience for children: their first experience of diving, and their first official certificate to show for it!

Mediterranean coast
The Mediterranean has a host of quiet, transparent creeks where divers can enjoy the flora and fauna in beautifully conditions.

African and the Middle Eastern coasts
May your vacation be a festival of colour. With your flippers and cylinder, venture into the heart of the most incredibly enchanting coral reefs and encounter fish of the most fabulous colours.

Asian and the Indian Ocean's coasts
In the lagoons and surrounding sea, discover the most amazing varieties of coral, inhabited by sharks and manta rays, lion fish and moray eels. A scuba-diver's paradise.

Caribbean and American coasts
The warm, crystal clear waters of the French West Indies are ideal for divers of all levels.

Scuba diving Academies*
Our Resorts with Diving Academies