Scuba Diving in Dubai

Being one of the premiere tourist destinations in the world, with amazing year round weather, Dubai is Ideal for scuba diving. Enthusiasts and adventurers from all over the world can dive at numerous dive sites in Dubai if they are certified, if they are not diving schools offer short as well as long diving certification courses at very reasonable rates.

Diving in Dubai is fun because the water temperature is ideal year round as well as there is ample marine life to admire when you go on diving trips. The most popular diving outfit in Dubai is Al Boom diving with branches in Dubai as well as Fujaira.

Al Boom diving will do everything for you to make it a memorable dive trip, they arrange dives everyday, and have several dive sites you can go to depending on your certification level, they also offer snorkeling trips every day.

The best dive sites to dive in Dubai are an hours drive away in a place called Khor Fakhan, the reefs and fish variety is just amazing and you can be sure to have a diving trip that will excite and relax you at the same time. There are also some wrecks off Fujaira that the diving club can arrange for you to visit.

For the adventure diver, Al Boom diving can arrange dive trips to Oman depending on your dive qualification, here you will get more dive sites which will offer an unforgettable trip to the experienced diver. I have enjoyed diving in Dubai and I'm sure you will too.

Al Boom offers an introductry course for beginners called "discover scuba" with one as well as two ocean dives. Discover suba with one ocean dive costs $150, with two ocean dives it costs $200 this includes instruction as well as equipment rental. A more comprehensive "PADI open water diver" certification with equipment rental costs $635. The open water certification can be done in 5 days on a fast track, they also offer ways to do the theory part online in the form of e-learning so if you are coming to dubai for a short time you can do the dives conviniently. The rates for snorkeling are roughly $80 depending on the location of the trip.

Dubai offers diving oppertunities to both experts and beginners be sure to try the scuba dive experience on your next trip to Dubai. Al Boom diving can be contacted at
Tel No: + (9714) 342 - 2993
Fax No: + (9714) 342 - 2995
Email: abdiving@emirates.net.ae

Have a fun and safe diving trip in Dubai.