2024 - 2025 Scuba Diving Holidays, Liveaboards and Learn to Dive Courses to the Maldives, Red Sea, Canary Islands, Far East, Caribbean and the Pacific.
Rodrigues Dive Centre - ,
Rodrigues Dive Centre is based at Mourouk Ebony Hotel. The centre benefits from its prime beachside location with direct access to the Marine Biodiversity Conservation Project, a 35 square kilometre protected marine area. This project offers the biggest natural pass in a preserved lagoon with no industrial flow allowed.
Location
The Rodrigues dive centre is based at the Mourouk Ebony hotel on the south coast of Rodrigues Islands, approximately 30 minute drive from the airport.
Facilities & Services
Scubapro and Beuchat equipment are available at the centre with shower, rinse pool and Marinade Bauer 200lts/mn compressor. Double outlet steel blocks of 10, 12 and 13 lts are available. The dive boat is a 9m Boston Whaler equipped with twin outboard motors, first aid kit, oxygen and GPS. It can take a maximum of 10 people. The club boat is a 9 meter boston Whaler equipped with two 85ch yamaha motors. It is recommended to wear shorty dive suits 5mm (from October to April) and full 3mm dive suits (from May to September).
Diving
Daily morning and afternoon dives are available to over 30 dive sites which range from 6-30 meters and are accessed by boat from 5-40 minutes. Most of the diving is outside the reef or in the channel and includes walls, caves and coral gardens. The dive centre reports than the island has no industrial pollution with around 280 species of coral, a dizzying array of marine life including rays, jacks, turtles and white-tipped reef sharks, and dramatic underwater scenery which includes caves and canyons. The island has two marine parks, one at Mourouk in the southeast and another at Rivière Banane in the northeast.