Top Scuba Diving destination - Cape Town, South Africa

Cape Town has been ranked the Number One ‘must see city’ in the world and was placed Number Five of all time, top destinations world-wide!
Explore famous Table Mountain, stunning white beaches, azure blue seas, fantastic nightlife, national parks and its famous wine-lands.

Cape Town also has two mighty oceans, the Atlantic and the Indian – legend has it they meet each other at the tip of the Cape Peninsula National Park. With so much to see and do in Cape Town its no wonder more and more divers from around the world are coming to experience what lies beneath the surface of these two great oceans.

The western seaboard of Cape Town must rank as one of the most ruggedly scenic areas in the world with equally spectacular drives along mountain cliffs that lead to some of our superb dive sites. Only a few minutes outside the city of Cape Town and right under the shadow of Table Mountain you will be ‘flying’ through forests of kelp that reach 12m to the surface. The kelp provides a protective mantle for many species of fish, rock lobster, small beautifully marked catsharks, octopus, abalone and much more.

Granite boulders produce reef walls and caves where an abundance of brightly coloured hard and soft cold-water corals in shades of red, orange, purple and pink are set off against a background of bright blue anemones and sulphur-yellow sponges.

Other reefs, covered in seafans, starfish, nudibranchs and urchins teem with big fish such as roman, stumpnose, yellowtail and sharks. Cuttlefish, galjoen, dog sharks and cowries can also be found here.

Diving with seals is an experience not to be missed while you are here in Cape Town. Seals are naturally inquisitive and are often found performing their underwater acrobatics and swimming up to you for a closer look!

Off Cape Point, there is an abundance of big sea life. There are huge shoals of longfin and bluefin tuna, as well as mako and blue sharks. Larger sharks, including the broadnose seven gill shark (cow shark) and the huge but harmless basking shark can also be found off the Cape coast at various times of the year.

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