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Dive Tanzania's Undiscovered South
offered by supplier M15469 (view this supplier profile)
Key Information:
Tour Duration: 1
- 14
day(s)
Group Size: 2
- 8
people
Destination:
Tanzania
Category: Scuba diving operators
Specialty:
Dive boat, Diving instructor, Scuba diving center
Season: April - December
Min Price: 125 US Dollar (USD) per person
Max Price: 500 US Dollar (USD) per person
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Tanzania has some of the most spectacular, exciting and un-discovered diving in East Africa. Here, the Southern Equatorial Current meets the African coast bringing a wealth of marine life from across the Indian Ocean.
eco2 is the first Scuba diving operation and marine research and education centre in the southeast, based in Mikindani town. We provide low-impact, eco-aware Scuba diving and dive safaris and promote marine environmental education through applied research.
eco2 is a fully equipped dive centre and operates a fitted fibreglass dive boat (including freshwater shower for camera equipment) with twin 75hp engines. The manager of the centre is a qualified marine biologist who has worked and researched in the region since 1995 and is a PADI dive instructor with over 15 years dive experience.
Visitors to eco2 can learn more about the local marine life at the centre’s library and marine specimen collection, and get directly involved with local marine research and monitoring, with fish identification training provided.
eco2 is committed to local communities benefiting from this venture through their active participation in reef protection and the establishment of a community development fund. A dollar from every dive is added to the community fund.
A sample of our dives
The Monoliths
Rising from depths of over 150m the Monoliths offer architecturally impressive columns and walls that make the descent feel like skydiving. Only ten or twelve metres from the surface at the top they are home to hard and soft corals, anemones, colourful nudibranches and shoals of vibrant reef fish. At their edges snapper, barracuda, trevally and tuna shadow the shoals of neon-striped fusiliers that cruise between the structures.
Descending into the depths, the walls offer spectacular views of Red-toothed triggerfish and Black pyramid butterfly fish crowding their sides like underwater confetti, while weaving between these great structures turtles, batfish, giant grouper and curious Napoleon wrasse shadow you, while garden eels reach up from the bottom to feed.
Cryptomania
A macro-photographers heaven Cryptomania is the ultimate in critter watching. Just six to twelve metres below the surface, nooks and crannies in the underwater cliffs and bommies reveal octopus, nudibranches, lobster, cleaner and mantis shrimps, and moray and snake eels.
The sandy bottom is home to shrimp gobies guarding their host’s tunnels, pulsating soft corals and tube anemones waving gently in the current, crocodile fish, leaf fish and colourful flatworms cruising the sand.
Around the rocks Lionfish spread their fins like flowers and Scorpion fish and pipefish lie camouflaged, all surrounded by clouds of bright lilac and golden anthias, vivid neon damselfish and shoaling fusiliers and surgeonfish.
At night an array of crabs cleverly camouflaged with anemones and underwater rubbish make their way from rock to rock and cowries come out to feed.
Activities:
- Fun dives (max. 8 divers)
- Snorkelling
- Marine Research Programme
- Discover Scuba Diving (Try Dive)
- PADI Open Water Diver (4 days)
- PADI Advanced Diver (2 days)
- PADI Rescue Diver
- PADI Divemaster
Notes:
Payments can be made in US$ or local currency
Also see tour packages in:
Scuba diving operators
Africa
Tanzania
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