A barefoot dive centre and beach camp on Utende Beach, right on Chole Bay. Healthy reefs, whale sharks, traditional dhows and none of the crowds.
Our PADI Instructors and Divemasters plan your diving around the tides, so every day is different. Full Scubapro rental gear and a big wet room are waiting for you.
Take your first breaths underwater or get fully PADI certified in the calm, warm water of Chole Bay.
View courses →Two dives a day from our dhows, plus night dives and full-day sandbank trips. Tea and biscuits on board included.
See the dive sites →Advanced, Rescue, specialties and professional training at a PADI 5 Star Instructor Development Centre.
Level up →From seahorses in the seagrass at our doorstep to potato groupers and reef sharks on the walls outside the bay.
Walk in from the beach. A nursery for macro life: nudibranchs, ghost pipefish, seahorses and a resident giant barracuda.
Coral gardens, cleaning stations and the famous Kinasi Pass, with turtles, eagle rays, bumphead parrotfish and giant morays.
Walls, caves and archways in the open Indian Ocean. Napoleon wrasse, potato groupers, guitar sharks and reef sharks.
Plan around the encounters you dream of. Wildlife is seasonal and weather-dependent, so treat this as a guide.
Sleep steps from the dive centre at Butiama Marine Camp. Breakfast is included, dinner is a three-course affair at the beach restaurant, and the bar is where the day's sightings are retold.
Check availabilityRuins, sandbanks, villages and giants of the sea. Perfect for rest days or travel partners who don't dive.
Swim alongside the gentle giants, following a strict code of conduct.
A white sandbank that appears at low tide, with a BBQ lunch.
Old ruins, baobab villages and a traditional dhow builder.
Watch green turtle hatchlings race to the sea on Juani, supporting Sea Sense.
Humpback whales pass Mafia on their yearly migration.
10th-century trading town and a lagoon of upside-down jellyfish.
Reef snorkelling from a dhow, suitable for all levels.
A full day by dhow to a remote sandbank with picnic and snorkelling.
We dive inside Tanzania's oldest marine protected area, and we want to keep it that way. Every course you take with us gives something back to the ocean.
Days run on tide time. Mornings on the reef, afternoons in the shade, evenings watching the sun sink into Chole Bay.
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Send us your dates and experience level. We'll put together diving, a bed and the best of the island.
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