Davy Jones Diving - PADI 5* Scuba Diving Centre in Gran Canaria
calle Luis Velasco 36, Playa de Arinaga, 35118 Agüimes, CanariasAbout
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Opening Hours
- Monday 09:30 - 17:00
- Tuesday 09:30 - 17:00
- Wednesday 09:30 - 17:00
- Thursday 09:30 - 17:00
- Friday 09:30 - 17:00
- Saturday 09:30 - 17:00
- Sunday -
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01 October 2018
September has been a month of night dives.. with lots to see! Here are some of the highlights from the Night Dives
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22 September 2018
Last week we were delighted to host Nigel Marsh, an Australian photo-journalist who recently publish the amazing book 'Diving with Sharks'. Searching for angel sharks in the quiet season can be a bit unrewarding, but on an amazing night dive in Playa del Cabrón we found and photographed a baby angel shark as well as white-spotted octopus, tamboril espinoso (spiny pufferfish), balearic congers and lots of other nocturnal species. Here is a small selection of the species we found during his visit. #divingwithsharks, #grancanaria, #padi, #divinggrancanaria, #Arinaga, #davyjones, #angelshark
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17 September 2018
Congratulations Andrea with completing the advanced and nitrox with master Ray
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06 September 2018
After a busy month, time to share some of the highlights of the diving over the last six weeks.
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25 August 2018
Summer Diving in Gran Canaria - 2018 with Davy Jones Diving. Having spent the week writing press releases I thought I had better put together some of the recent highlights we have seen here in El Cabrón.
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22 August 2018
Wow! PADI EMEA (Europe Middle east & Africa) have awarded us their 'Outstanding Achievement Award' for 2018 !
'Davy Jones Diving have made an immense contribution to the training of divers in the Canary Islands since moving to their new spacious dive centre in Arinaga in 2014' said Sascha Engeler, Regional Manager for PADI EMEA. Feedback from customers tells us that their students are trained to high levels of safety and confidence and really enjoy their courses with Davy Jones Diving. It is a very professional Five Star rated Dive Centre,and has a mature, experienced team of instructors. They cover a range of languages and have several who have gained PADI Elite Instructor status.'
Brian, Owner and Chief Instructor of Davy Jones Diving said 'I am delighted that the hard work of my instructors has been recognised with this award. We have one of the most amazing dive sites in the Canary Islands (the el Cabrón Marine Reserve) right next to us, and this has different dive areas which are perfect for different courses. Our combination of a strong team of instructors, great dive locations and great space and facilities at our dive centre in Arinaga have helped us to achieve this prestigious award'
Looks like we need a bigger trophy cabinet
#PADI #Diving #outstandingaward #grancanaria #canaryislands
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07 August 2018
Just a short clip of the first Honeycomb Filefish (Cantherhines pardalis) to be found in the Canary Islands. This has probably travelled from the Gulf of Guinea with one of the many oil platforms that come to Gran canaria for Repair.
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06 August 2018
Two bits of great news today.. First of all the strange fish I saw and photographed in El Cabrón about 10 days ago. According to a friend at the University it was confirmed as a Honeycomb Filefish (Cantherhines pardalis), probably from the guinea coast of West Africa, and whats more it is the FIRST RECORD OF SIGHTING in the Canary Islands! We also received confirmation that our application for registration in the new register of Turismo Activo has been fully approved at the first review! #divinggrancanaria, #davyjonesdiving, #activacanarias, #buceograncanaria
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03 August 2018
congratulations Fred Adema with wreck, nitrox and deep specialties with davy jones instr. Raymond and Brett.
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03 August 2018
OK, Today, I finally got the proof .. Eduardo Vera Gonzalez o does breathe through gills just behind the ears Taken on an awesome dive on the Arona.. If only it was in a more sheltered location I am sure we would do it more often! #Divegrancanaria #wreckdiving #PADI
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27 July 2018
congratulations Lukas and Daphne Borst for completing the open water course with Brett. and frank and raymond
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26 July 2018
It may have been windy above the water but in El Cabrón the visibility is great! And we are finding all sorts of specials to show all our guests this summer.. A seahorse in shallow waters .. an unknown fish on the tabletop, a group of maria francesas (normally only in deeper water) and a pair of Rainbow wrasse in the same area as last year. El Cabrón remains the best place in Gran Canaria to see Spiny Pufferfish, but it looks like one of them, that we call Alpha, has been in a fight! (or accident with a boat ?) .. And for a change, a picture of me, not by me, taken by a student on a Digital UNderwater Photography course. #divinggrancanaria, #padi, #buceograncanaria, #grancanaria #seahorse
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24 July 2018
Belgium. they didn,t become worldchampion but they have a new qualified diver. MR LAURENT congratulations
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05 July 2018
Wir haben auf unserer Webseite nun die Rubrik bezüglich der Unterkünfte auf Gran Canaria ins Deutsche übersetzt. Wer also mit uns taucht und gleichzeitig auf der Suche nach einer geeigneten Unterkunft ist, dem empfehlen wir, einen Blick auf diese Seite zu riskieren. Vielen Dank an Guido von der VILLA CARPE DIEM in Maspalomas für die Übersetzungshilfe.
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We have converted our page on where to stay in Gran Canaria into German. Many thanks to Guido of VILLA CARPE DIEM in Maspalomas for his help translating it for us.
https://www.davyjonesdiving.com/…/G22-gran-canaria-unterkun…
#Unterkunftgrancanaria #tauchengrancanaria #villacarpediem #grancanaria
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05 July 2018
Today Eduardo and I went to see the new Hyperbaric Chamber which has just opened in Las Palmas. This brand new facility has a modern chamber with two independent rooms, one for 12 patients and one for two or three patients, so that even if general hyperbaric medicine is being carried out in the main chamber, emergencies can be treated quickly in the small chamber. The new centre can also provide medical certificates and advice in the case of suspected hyperbaric incidents. We have now aligned our contract for hyperbaric support to this new facility, but to be honest we really just want to carry on diving to the standards we have used for the last 15 years, under which we have never had to refer a diver to the medical services for hyperbaric treatment. If you are coming back please remeber three key standards .. follow the dive plans, don't fly within 18-24 hours after diving, and please DO NOT GO IN THE MOUNTAINS straight after diving. thanks to the team at chamber for looking after us today. #hyperbaricchamber, #grancanaria, #PADI, #divinggrancanaria, #buceo, #tauchen https://www.facebook.com/…/Hiperbaricas-Canarias-108111326…/
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29 June 2018
congratulations Mohsen and Nadieh with completing the open water course on gran canaria with Davy Jones.
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27 June 2018
Our friends at ELASMOCAN continue to carry out leading-edge research into angel sharks. They have just announced that they have received funding from the Ministry for Ecologic Transition through the Biodiversity Foundation and Loro Parque Fundación for the first marine acoustic telemetry network in the Canary Islands.
The researchers from ElasmoCan consider the Special Conservgation area (SAC) “Costa Sardina del Norte” (Gáldar, Gran Canaria) as one of the critical areas for several coastal shark and ray species, especially for angelsharks. They have been able to confirm that these sharks develop all the activities from their life cycle in the bay of Sardina
The project intends a continuous tracing of the species over time within the SAC, to determine its movement patterns, to identify residence patterns, describe the habitat use and to raise public awareness about the presence and importance of the species in the SAC.
You can on their webpage at https://elasmocan.org/monitoring-telemetry-biodiversity-fo…/
#angelshark #elasmocan #grancanaria #shark #scubadiving
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21 June 2018
I know that some of you like to see some recent photos of the amazing and colourful creatures we see diving in Gran Canaria.. I had to go back to the UK for a few days so here is a catch-up from May and early June. As you can see great conditions and lots about! #divinggrancanaria #PADI #Arinaga #buceo #tauchen
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13 June 2018
Congratulations Amber with completing your course 100% with elite instr. Raymond. Have fun in gui gui.
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01 January 1970
What a fantastic outfit!
All the staff were welcoming and helpful from the outset. Booked the advanced open water course having completed open water in UK.
Day one was spent getting back into things, a couple of fun dives (no doubt testing that we weren't clowns!). Thanks Hector and Edwardo.
Day two deep and nav adventure dives, both fantastic locations. Plenty to see and explore.
Day three, fun dive in morning then search and recovery adventure dive in afternoon. Swell had kicked up so getting in and out was like Coasteering!
Day four, extra couple of fun dives. Went down a hole, in the big cave and saw loads of awesome fish etc.
Day five boat and wreck day down with Jerry and the gang in Mogan.
Thanks to our instructor Brett, and of course Brian and Jessica for sorting us out re planning and logistics.
We stayed in nautilus appartments. Comfortable and convenient to dive centre as well as beach, shops and eateries.
Explored the local area in the early mornings and after the days diving (which finished before 3, leaving plenty of time for sunshine and exploring).
Thanks again for a fab week, we'll recommend to the world and look you up if we're in Gran Canaria again. Give us a shout if you're ever visiting West Wales, we'll throw you off some cliffs Coasteering :D
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01 January 1970
My dive was the 16th November at the Punta de la Monja in the reserve. The dive centre was good and clean. The staff were brilliant especially Brett who was my dive buddy and me being a novice diver he took good care of me. I did the afternoon dive but next time will do the 2 dives in one day as you get picked up and dropped off in their minibus. Prices are very reasonable as well. I will definitely be going back to dive again at the El Cabron with Brian and the rest of guys.
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01 January 1970
On 6th november I had a great try-dive at the El Cabron reserve. Seen a lot of fish. Thanks to instructor Raymond for the great introduction and dive.
Next time I will do a course to get a dive certificate. Good service, nice staff and superb dive centre.response / report this review -
01 January 1970
I've been looking for the dive club as my parents were coming to visit ( my dad is a fan of diving) and when I found this place. I knew that it's going to be the best decision I ever made!
Instructors are super helpful and friendly! Places were all the time different, so if you planning going there for few days you will definitely get different surrounding! We saw a shark, it's very rare and hard to find but thanks to the instructor knowledge we saw it in the wild. also sting rays and load of other fishes!
In between the dives we were transfered back to the La Casa de Limon, for some tea and snack and to reload the tanks. in many other clubs you just sit on the beach and have no opportunity to go anywhere far.
Also if you are interested in deepening your knowledge, they also offer classes and certification studies, so that is very handy too!
In few words that was great experience and I am glad that I have choose this club!!!
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01 January 1970
Dave Eldridge Dived 20th and 21st October.
First time I've dived in Gran Canaria. Brian and the crowd were brilliant and I had a fantastic couple of days. I didn't realise just how much life there was here. For me the highlight was seeing 3 Ray's hiding in caves and another massive fish swim past that must have been about 2 metres long! Yes it really was that big!
I will definately dive with Brian and his team again.response / report this review -
01 January 1970
My girlfriend and I booked snorkeling for the day for €45 each and we received a quick response when we emailed and immediately booked it. My expectations were very high from the information we received and we were both really excited. We were picked up punctually from our hotel and brought to the dive centre. We filled in the forms and were signposted to where all the facilities were, such as toilet, tea etc which was a nice touch. But, from then, I felt the attention was all focused on the scuba diving customers, and my girlfriend and I were forgotten about. We were given all of our gear after a lengthy wait, but nothing was really explained to us. We went to the first snorkeling site which was really nice. The only thing that ruined our experience was the customer service. My girlfriend was quite nervous about snorkeling and there was no reassurance or encouragement. Fortunately, I've been scuba diving before in Gran Canaria, and was familiar with what was going on but for my girlfriend it was all very new and nothing was explained to her which made her nervous. There was barely any instructions and lacked information; my girlfriend had trouble with water getting in her mask so I was the one who showed her how to get water out of it whilst underwater. Basic information was missed. The diving company I visited last year in Gran Canaria was really customer focused based and friendly which was not what I experienced with Davy Jones. I didn't even know the name of the instructor who took us! My girlfriend didn't want to snorkel in the second site because it looked dangerous and she didn't want to climb down rocks so we were taken to another site. After, we really tried to make the most of it and leave it on a high note, but as we were being driven back to our hotel, the car broke down on the motorway. This was the tipping point. It wasn't anyone's fault that the car broke down, even though I think the car has definitely seen better days, but we never received and apology or reassurance. We were stuck on the side of a busy motorway for 30 minutes, which was extremely dangerous, until the guys Dad had to come and pick us up and drive us back to the hotel. We both felt if the customer service was there, our experience would have been a lot better. I knew from previous experiences in scuba diving, in Gran Canaria specifically, we should never have been treated like that, whether we were snorkeling or scuba diving.
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01 January 1970
Amazing place, the paradise. People in Arinaga are very friendly and the guys from Davy Jones were just superb. I had a lot of fun and discovered an amazing world with Hector, the instructor who taught me and guided me through 4 fantastics days in the marine reserve.
I will defenitely come back in the future, kind regards to all of you.response / report this review -
01 January 1970
Thanks to Raymond, who took me thru Advanced and Nitrox. This is the right place to graduate. Due to the windy weather, the exit's is advanced :-)
The staff is friendly and helpful.
It would be super, if the center arranged, with the local shop, that they could deliver sandwich.. It is so cheep, and would mean so much. :-)
Thanks fore the adventure. :-)
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01 January 1970
Wonderful diving club with excellent friendly staff. We booked an open water diver course without any previous diving experience. Our instructor Raymond Hermans was very knowledgeable and inspired us for adventures. Although the course can feel quite hard, Raymond, Jessica and Brett were always there to help us and calm us. The club also has a nice garden to chill and relax. While it was an intensive course we never felt rushed and the whole experience was top notch. It was an honour to be a student of master Ray!
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01 January 1970
Fantastic experience! Unfortunately my buddy and me have met Davy only at the end of our vacation so we had only two days. Sebastian took us out on a fantastic diving experience. The base in in the city which is, at least for me a bid unusual, but we felt at home soon and enjoyed great service.We will be back soon!
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01 January 1970
Four amazing days with Raymond and the rest of the crew! This is the place to be if you want to learn how to dive and have fun at the same time! Master Raymond is an excellent professional and a great character as well! With the team you will find "another world" that will inspire and amaze you! :) Plus you will also meet new buddies to share the happiness of this adventure!
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01 January 1970
Dived end Feb 2018 with guides Eduardo & Brett who are very helpful & we felt well looked after.Many Thanks to all & Brian, owner.
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01 January 1970
I had a great time with Davy Jones and team - thoroughly Professional operation!
My trip was organised by Jessica and made me feel welcome at the center before I had even set foot on the island. It is located in a perfect place as my dives were only a 5 minute drive from the shop, meaning the all important surface interval will be warm and pleasant - even in Winter!
Raymond was my guide most of the time and his 10 foot 10 presence will be reassuring to any new divers, along with his charming personality! The water is 19 degrees and just fine with a 7mm wetsuit too.
I also dived with Brian, the owner, and he has a talent for explaining complex things in a easy to understand manner. Sebastian was another guide and his enthusiasm for safety and the sea was great to see! Eduardo has the coolest surface interval dive jacket that has ever existed! Lastly, Hector has a passion for teaching Scuba Diving and in my opinion, is a superb option for new students of the ocean!
Things seen on my 5 day trip were Angel Sharks, Eagle Rays, Schools of Roncadores, Garden eels, Moray eels, Octopus, Cuttlefish and Barracuda!
All in all, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Davy Jones to any diver, new or experienced! You are in highly experienced hands and they are a credit to the industry.response / report this review -
01 January 1970
Had three days diving with the team at Davy Jones; Raymond, Brett, Eduardo, Hector and Jessica are all amazingly professional and helpful. Not only did they help me refresh my skills but took my two children through their Open Water PADI certification. I would have no hesitation diving with this team again and again. The dive centre is located near to the main dive site at El Cabron (Marine Reserve) which means that unlike other dive operators you can nip back after the first dive to their office at Casa Limon and change the tanks, grab a coffee and relax before the second dive.. Put it on your list of things to do if in Gran Canaria whatever your diving proficiency!
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01 January 1970
Thank you Raymond and Brian for all your help over the last 4 days. You and your team at Davy Jones are awesome and i would highly recommend you to everyone i know no matter what their ability was.
The team are all very knowledgable and obviously love what they do. I can honestly see why they have the great reputation that they do! It was a pleasure to study my PADI Advanced here and i will be sure to be returning to see Brian and the team again.
The dive sites were awesome and if one of the team felt that they could not get into the water at a particular entry point the whole team went to a new one with no issues. From the many returning divers to those who had just started (and who were really unsure of swimming) everyone was treated with the same warm welcome.
If anyone wants to continue their diving or just have a one on one session to learn diving from scratch this is the place to go. No need to look anywhere else!
The fact that they come to pick you up from you house/hotel was a bonus to the whole experiance
The 5 star rating both as PADI school and that which is on Trip Advisor is well deserved. If there were a 7 star you would own it 100%!!!!
Thank you all for making my holiday one i will never forget and i will look forward to returning soon!response / report this review -
01 January 1970
I've taken my PADI OPEN WATER with Davy Jones Diving team and it's been a fantastic experience, unforgettable!! They are all very kind, helpful and professional, and specially Jessica, my instructor; she is a very professional instructor who took care of me at all times and made herself sure that I was ok. She gave me very clear instructions, and did not doubt to repeat any explanation or exercices under water until I managed to perform them correctly. Indeed, Jessica is a very professional, experienced and patient instructor who showed me the wonders of the underwater world; always making sure that I enjoyed and I didn't miss any underwater wild life. On top of that, she is a super nice and friendly girl. So, if you are planning a diving course, without the shadow of a doubt I strongly recommend Jessica as a your instructor; she will make your experience unique and unforgettable! I just want to thank the whole team, and specially Jessica, my fantastic instructor!!
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01 January 1970
Absolutely amazing! Everyone is incredibly friendly and very professional.
I recommend Davy Jones Diving to everyone, no matter what their skill level.
I had never dived before and was unsure if I would enjoy the experience, but I loved every minute of it, and after being trained by the amazing Jessica, I came away with a qualification.
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01 January 1970
My husband and I did a scuba diving lesson in october. We were both never diving and I was scared at first. But the instructors were friendly and very competent. I would recommend to anyone such a diving course.
We dived to 10 meters and saw various fish. It was exhausting but worth the money and time.
Thanks specially to Raymond. He was very patient with me.response / report this review -
01 January 1970
Today I celebrated my fourth anniversary, diving with Davy Jones Gran Canaria, with my 400th and 401st dive with them.
My vocabulary cannot find words enough to praise the excellence of service, attention to detail and all round support that I have experienced.
Would I recommend them to friends and family? Without a doubt. I in fact have a nephew and great nephew visiting soon who will undertake a try dive and bubble maker.
Long may they, the whole team succeed.response / report this review -
01 January 1970
Thanks everyone.. First time for me and that was amazing. Well done and hope to enjoy it again.
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