About Us

BSAC Lanzarote

BSAC Lanzarote is run by Paul and Valerie who are both BSAC instructors who trained and dived in the UK before coming over to Lanzarote for the amazing all year round scuba diving on offer here. They both enjoy sharing the many underwater wonders to be found in Lanzarote and are looking forward to sharing them with you.

BSAC Lanzarote offers everything that BSAC divers like: from knowledgeable dive guides that understand the BSAC way, great visability, warm water, BSAC Diver courses and SDC's, to twinset hire and that all important coffee and cake between dives and let's not forget that where there are divers there are always lots of diver stories, banter and laughs!

BSAC Lanzarote is the only BSAC Technical centre in Lanzarote and across the Canary Islands. We have twinsets and stages available to hire and we can support groups of technical divers as well as mixed club groups of sports, technical and rebreather divers. We also offer the full spectrum of BSAC Technical courses and BSAC Rebreather courses along side our usual sport diving packages.

Our aim is to provide you with the best BSAC club diving experience right here in Lanzarote!

Accommodation

There is a wide choice of accommodation available near the dive centre from 4 & 5 star hotels and villas to 2 & 3 star self-catering apartment hotels. Some are children and family friendly whilst others are adult only, as in no children allowed.

There are supermarkets nearby that sell fresh bread, eggs, meats and cheeses and a full range of breakfast cereals, as well as everything you need for dinner.

Fancy eating out instead? Then you won't be disappointed with the choice of cafes, bars and restaurants to choose from. The Vu is a favourtie as is The Purple Turtle (although I am yet to see one in the water!). We are always looking for recommendations to pass on so please let us know you favourites so we can also post them here on the website.

Here are a few of the places near to the dive centre, many of which you will find on google maps (zoom in and you'll find more). You can book through bookings.com and other booking sites: - Hotel Bellevue Aquarius
- Aparthotel Costa Volcan & Spa
- Pension Magec
- Apartments Agua Marina Lanzarote
- La Florida
- TBH Flora Hotel
- La Isla y La Mar Hotel

If you choose to hire a car whilst you're here, then there is a FREE public carpark at the entrance to the harbour.

The Diving

We usually meet at the dive centre at 09:00 in the morning for 2 dives, with refreshments available between the 2 dives and we usually finish around 13:00; just in time to grab lunch. In regards to the dive sites we don't have a set schedule that you have to fit in with, instead we take a more flexible bespoke approach so that the diving is about you and what you and your club / dive buddies would like to experience.

Enjoy the varied and abundant marine life that lives off the shores of Lanzarote, including wrasse, damsel fish and dorada. The Groupers can grow to be enormous and have a curiousity to match so they might even come close enough and pose for a photo for you. Orange coral flourishes in sports depths, along with starfish, lobsters, and shoals of sardines who in turn attract the big hunters, such as the barracuda and tuna. We are regularly visited by rays: Sting Rays, Butterfly Rays, Atlantic Rays and Eagle Rays. We are also luck enough to be home to some of the worlds most endangered species such as seahorses and the Angel Shark for whom the Canaries is their breeding ground; you could be really luck and see a baby Angel Shark shimmying along the bay wall.

Combine the amazing Atlantic marine life with the unique volcanic topography and caverns and you have a plethora of amazing diving experiences just a short boat ride away!

The Team

Valerie

Valerie is our full time BSAC Open Water Instructor and she can teach all the basic diver grade courses as well as be your dive guide. It is Valerie who will most likely answer your emails, book you in, take your payments and welcome you to the dive centre when you arrive; think of her as your club secretary, and event organiser all rolled into one. It is important to Valerie that you have a great time diving with us, both in and out of the water; all suggestions are welcome.

Paul

Paul is our full time BSAC Technical Instructor. He has been a technical instructor now for 8 years and a technical diver for over 25 years. Paul is able to teach all the basic diver grade courses and many SDCs however he is most passionate about teaching technical diving.

Paul is able to teach all the BSAC Technical courses on both OC (open circuit) and CCR (closed circuit rebreather). Here's just some of the SDCs and Tech courses that he can teach.

BSAC Courses

We run the full range of BSAC Technical courses and diver grade courses or we can jsut sign off a BSAC training dive or two for you. This could be towards your Dive Leader rating or a depth progession dive. You might like to try tech or CCR diving whilst you're here, then you can book these with us too.

Diving with you BSAC club - We fully support the concept of on-going teaching and instruction and will happily assist your club memebers to achieve their learning goals. We can provide your instructors with the logistics and helpful local knowledge as to where and how you can achieve your training aims and we can even assist you if required.

Our Facilities

We have all the basics you need to go diving:
- A compressor for those all important air fills; it's a Coltri MCH23 Mark 3
- A Nitrox membrane set to 30% to increase our NDLs; it's a Coltri LP450
- Double rinse tank
- 12 litre tanks
- Weights and weight belts
- and the rest of the equipment too if you're travelling light

We also have a few of the nice things in life:
- FREE Wi-Fi
- FREE use of a locker for your personal belongings
- Easy access to boat dives - Changing room with toilets, lockers and a nice warm shower
- Wet and dry racks; you can store your kit with us whilst you're here diving with us
- Transportation between the dive centre and the dive sites

Also for your comfort we have a covered outdoor seating area with tables where you can complete your log books and plan your next dives over a nice cuppa or a refreshing cold drink.

You'll be able to browse in our dive shop, where you'll find everything from masks & snorkels, boots, fins, gloves, spare mouthpieces and mask straps to other essentials such as dive computers, SMBs & reels as well as lube, 3 & 6mm bungee, single and double bolt snaps, keep safes for money, keys etc. and much much more.

Technical and CCR Diving

We offer technical and CCR diving packages, courses and rental equipment suitable for all diver levels.

We have a lot of technical diving equipment ready for hire:
- twinsets, manifolded with bands
- dedicated sidemount cylinders with left and right valves and bands
- aluminium stage/bailout cylinders with slings
- backplates, harnesses & wings to hire for both back and sidemount diving
- tech fins to hire sizes M-XXL

Specifically, to support our CCR divers we keep the basics in stock.
- 2 litre & 3 litre cylinders
- Sofnalime - grade 797
- M25 to M26 converters

Island Watersports, Lanzarote Dive Centre

BSAC Lanzarote is part of Island Watersports SL which is a legal dive centre with all the correct licenses required under Spanish law. This ensures that you are diving with a truly professional, legal dive operation that is recognised and regulated by the numerous authorities here on Lanzarote.