Aqua Planet Dive Centre and Charter, Protea Banks
Safety is our number one priority and we boast a 100% safety record!
Kitting up in our dive centre is easy and our rental equipment is in excellent condition – it includes a SMB in the BCD. Hot showers are available after the dive and a debriefing is done over a cup of coffee or tea. If you want to experience the wonders of PROTEA BANKS, be assured of professional and friendly service, as well as a memorable diving experience, you should look no further than AQUA PLANET DIVE CENTRE AND CHARTER.
Our Instructors, who are passionate about diving, offer PADI SCUBA diving courses from beginner to professional and a full range of specialty courses – including the SHARKLIFE shark specialty courses. With courses starting daily, designed around your schedule, you are assured of individual attention. AND Pool training is very comfortable in a HEATED POOL. Our Instructors love what they do and you will feel their energy while they teach you to SCUBA dive, in a fun and safe manner.
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? JOIN THE AQUA PLANET ‘FAMILY’ TODAY!!!
The Aqua Dive Centre and Charter Crew
Kym Pollard – PADI Staff Instructor, Surf Launch Skipper & Owner
‘Two thirds of the earth is covered with water and anyone who does not dive has been short changed by life and has seen only part of what our planet has to offer.’ – taken from Len Jones’s Guide to Spearfishing.
Being a coastal girl, I have been fortunate enough to have had the ocean as my playground. My dad was an avid diver, fisherman and surfer. For as long as I can remember, I was spending my weekends and school holidays on the beach or on my dad’s fishing boat ‘Polly’. After school I started studying but could not see myself in an office job …
The travel bug bit, I traveled extensively and worked in the United Kingdom and Switzerland. In Egypt I did my Open Water Course in the Red Sea – it was love at first dive and I knew this is what I wanted to do with my life. Funny enough, I also saw a small reef shark, which started my interest and passion for SHARKS. On my return to South Africa I continued with my diving. In 2000 I did my Instructors and got involved with AQUA PLANET DIVE CENTRE AND CHARTER.
PROTEA BANKS is my ‘home’. I have been diving on PROTEA BANKS for more than 20 years and still get excited each and every time I get to dive it. It is a ‘wild’ dive site in the fact that each and every day is totally different and I have had MIND BLOWING experiences, diving with a wide variety of shark species, including: TIGER SHARKS, BULL (ZAMBEZI) SHARKS, RAGGED-TOOTH SHARKS, OCEANIC BLACKTIP SHARKS and the odd Great White … to name just a few. With the incredible shark diving on PROTEA BANKS it is very hard to pick a favourite dive … BUT if I had to, it is diving with hundreds to thousands of shoaling HAMMERHEAD SHARKS on PROTEA BANKS … I cannot even try and explain the feeling …
AQUA PLANET DIVE CENTRE AND CHARTER is a ‘small family business’ where our motto is: ‘Arrive as a diver, leave as a friend’.
AQUA PLANET DIVE CENTRE AND CHARTER is not a business to me, it is my passion!
