Welcome to a world of diving
Welcome to Calypso Dive Center
Calypso Dive Center has been in Maspalomas in the South of the island Gran Canaria since 1996. The only 5 Star PADI Dive Center in the area of Maspalomas and Playa del Inglés. You find our dive center at the frontside of the Hotel Dunas Mirador Maspalomas Sonnenland, meet us and we will offer you a wide range of PADI Diving Courses.
Our perfectly trained PADI instructors accompany you to interesting dive sites of Gran Canaria such the Marine Reserve “El Cabrón” Arinaga which count to the top 100 dive sites in the world and comes up with one of the highest concentration of different fish species around the Canary Islands.
The Marine Reserve “El Cabrón” as well as the adjoined dive site “Risco Verde” are also ideal for nightdives, where be conspicuous at the encountered sea creatures from the night dive on the size and Art very large differences to the day dive.
Expert Instructors
PADI Instructors teach the world’s most popular dive curriculum, they transform lives, and open hearts and minds to the hidden beauty of nature’s creation and our obligation to protect it.
PADI Dive Courses
Learning to dive is one of the most rewarding experiences of your life. Earning your PADI certification will forever change the way you see the world, both above and below the surface.
Amazing Sites
We can safely guide you through some of the most awesome dive sites in the World, from reefs and wrecks, to drifts and depths, to magical undersea wildlife.
Perfect Weather
Gran Canaria is renowned for it's climate, having ideal weather conditions all year round. This makes it one of the best diving destinations in the world!
PADI Diving Courses
If you’ve always wanted to take scuba diving lessons, experience unparalleled adventure and see the world beneath the waves, this is where it starts. Get your scuba diving certification with the PADI® courses.
Open Water Diver
The world’s most popular and widely recognized scuba course. Millions of people have learned to scuba dive and gone on to discover the wonders of the aquatic world through this course.
Advanced Open Water Diver
The course Advanced Open Water Course helps build confidence and expand your scuba skills through different Adventure Dives. You try out different specialties while gaining experience under the supervision of your PADI Instructor. You log dives and develop capabilities as you find new ways to have fun scuba diving.
Emergency First Response
Emergency First Response training focuses on building confidence in lay rescuers and increasing their willingness to respond when faced with a medical emergency. Course participants learn simple to follow steps for emergency care and practice applying skills in a non stressful learning environment.
Rescue Diver
Scuba divers describe the PADI Rescue Diver course as the most challenging, yet most rewarding course they’ve ever taken. Why? Because you learn to prevent and manage problems in the water, and become more confident in your skills as a diver, knowing that you can help others if needed.
Divemaster
The PADI Divemaster course teaches you to be a leader and take charge of dive activities. Through knowledge development sessions, waterskills exercises and workshops, and hands-on practical assessment, you develop the skills to organize and direct a variety of scuba diving activities.
El Cabrón & Risco Verde
The Marine Reserve “El Cabrón” as well as the adjoined dive site “Risco Verde” are also ideal for nightdives, where be conspicuous at the encountered sea creatures from the night dive on the size and Art very large differences to the day dive. For diving beginners (Discover Scuba Diving) and for divers with little diving experience and divers who have over a longer period no dives completed, the dive site “Risco Verde Arinaga” extremely recommendable. As it is close to the Marine Reserve of Arinaga, the abundance of marine life accordingly.
Shipwrecks
For the slightly more experienced divers (Advanced Diver), Gran Canaria has diving sites to shipwrecks at Las Palmas such the in March 1991 sunken cargo ship “Kos Iceland” with its total length of 139 meters, gives so many for divers to explore. Additional shipwrecks which make the wreck diving in Gran Canaria interesting, is the in August 1989 Sunken Fish trawler at the dive site “Roque Ceniciento” which has his final place of rest been found in front of “La Isleta de Las Palmas”, and offers us divers a Refugio rich in fish species and great biological diversity.
Looking for a place to dive & stay?
With a minimalist decoration, this apartment is a modern, fresh and bright beach house. Just the kind that you deserve when traveling to Gran Canaria.