Alanya Diving
Professional scuba diving from Alanya harbour: two guided boat dives, small groups, every piece of equipment and your hotel transfer included. First breath underwater or your fiftieth logged dive — you are in professional hands.
Beginner Diving €45 Certified Divers €75
Two ways to dive Alanya
One boat, one professional team, two experiences. If you have never dived, the beginner day is built for you. If you hold a certification, the certified experience takes you to the real profiles of this coast.
No licence · no experience
Two guided boat dives for people who have never dived: briefing, equipment fitting, an instructor beside you throughout, lunch on board and your hotel transfer.
Certification required
Two boat dives for divers who hold a certification: a professional guide, buddy procedures, and profiles matched to your level, the weather and the sea.
Why dive in Alanya
Alanya's great limestone peninsula does not stop at the waterline. Beneath the castle the rock keeps going: reefs, boulders, short walls, cave mouths and overhangs in clear Mediterranean water, minutes by boat from the harbour.
See the dive sitesThe dive sites lie in the waters off Cleopatra Beach, a short cruise from Alanya harbour. Less time in transit, more time in the water.
Rocky reef broken by caves, overhangs and swim-throughs, and an amphora site with ancient jars on the seabed near the harbour. Light and shadow change constantly.
Bream, wrasse, moray eels, octopus, grouper and — some days — a sea turtle. We never promise an animal; we go where they live.
Alanya dive sites
The crew chooses the day's site from the sea conditions, the group's experience and the weather. These are the places on the coast we dive and what each one is like.
Rocky reef, boulders and ledges in the waters beneath the castle: the coast's home site.
Read more →Cave mouths, overhangs and swim-throughs — seen from outside by beginners, dived by certified divers.
Read more →Ancient jars on the seabed near the harbour, and the octopus and grouper that live among them.
Read more →Sheltered reef within the beginner ceiling, cave mouths from outside, the amphora site — where first dives happen.
Read more →Deeper reef, overhangs, ledges and swim-throughs beneath the castle; the deep sites for the qualified.
Read more →Safety first
Diving carries real risks, and no honest operator calls it risk-free. What we can offer is the way a professional dive team manages them: assessment, briefing, supervision, conservative profiles and a plan for when something does not go as expected.
Our safety standards
Signals, equalisation, buoyancy, the plan for the dive and what to do if you feel uneasy. Nobody enters the water without it.
Your equipment is fitted and checked on the boat with the instructor before you descend, and checked again in the water.
Beginners dive beside an instructor throughout, in groups of 3–4 divers per instructor. Certified divers dive with a professional guide and a buddy.
Beginners stay within 13 m in open water. Certified divers dive profiles matched to their certification, experience and the conditions.
The dive team reads the sea and the weather each morning and picks the site that suits the group — not the one that was promised on a brochure.
No alcohol before diving, no diving in pregnancy or with heart or serious respiratory conditions, and no flying within 24 hours after your last dive.
Professional equipment
You bring swimwear and a towel. We provide a complete set of standard diving equipment, fitted to you on the boat and maintained for the work it does.
The equipment in detail
Fitted on the boat so the mask seals and the fins do not rub. A comfortable mask is half of a comfortable first dive.
A standard wetsuit in your size for warmth and protection. The Mediterranean is warm, but a second dive without one gets cold. Thermal inner suit on request, not included.
The buoyancy control device — the jacket that holds your cylinder and lets you hover. Your instructor controls it for you on a beginner dive.
The regulator delivers air from the cylinder at the pressure you need, with a spare second stage for your buddy.
A filled air cylinder for each dive and weights set for your body and wetsuit, adjusted by the instructor.
The boat is your surface support: a briefing point, a rest between dives and a crew that stays with the divers throughout.
Certifications & courses
Every certified diver on earth started with one supervised breath underwater. Here is how the internationally recognised pathway works — and, honestly, what we can arrange for you in Alanya.
The supervised try-dive that every certification pathway starts with. Our beginner dive is exactly this.
Read more →The entry-level certification: theory, confined water, open-water dives, and the freedom it gives you.
Read more →Deeper diving, navigation and specialised skills under instruction — the second certification.
Read more →Self-rescue, assisting other divers and managing incidents — the course experienced divers rate highest.
Read more →Deep, nitrox, night and other specialties, then Divemaster and instructor: the pathway after Rescue.
Read more →The CMAS star system explained, and the courses we arrange in Alanya on request.
Read more →Your diving day
A full day on and under the water, about 7–8 hours door to door. Here is the shape of it — the exact timings depend on your hotel and the sea, and are confirmed the day before.
We deliberately do not print a pickup time. Yours depends on where you are staying and the day's route; we confirm it with you the day before, and the return moves with the sea and the group.
The full diving dayAn air-conditioned vehicle collects you from your hotel in Alanya or one of the nearby resorts in the morning.
The dive boat waits at Alanya harbour, below the castle and the Red Tower. You meet the crew and the instructors.
Wetsuit, mask, fins, BCD and regulator are sized and fitted to you on the boat.
Signals, breathing, equalising your ears, the dive plan and what to do if anything feels wrong.
A short cruise along the coast past Cleopatra Beach to the day's dive site, chosen by the crew from the conditions.
Beginners: 5–8 m for 15–25 minutes beside the instructor. Certified divers: the first of two profiles led by the dive guide.
Rest on deck, snorkel or swim from the boat while your body off-gases and the next dive is planned.
Beginners descend to about 13 m with the instructor. Certified divers dive their second profile.
A hot lunch is served on the boat with drinking water, in a quiet bay with the castle walls above you.
The boat cruises back to the harbour in the afternoon and the vehicle returns you to your hotel.
Beginner vs certified
Same boat, same team, same coast. The difference is what your certification allows and how closely you are supervised.
| Beginner Diving €45 | Certified Diving €75 | |
|---|---|---|
| Who it is for | First-time divers and anyone without a certification | Divers holding a recognised certification |
| Certification | None needed | Certification card and logbook required |
| Dives | 2 guided dives | 2 guided dives |
| Depth | 5–8 m first, then to about 13 m | Around 30 m on standard dives; deep sites to 60 m only for suitably qualified divers |
| Supervision | Instructor beside you throughout, 3–4 divers per instructor | Professional dive guide leads the dive; buddy procedures |
| Sites | Reefs and cave mouths seen from open water | Reefs, overhangs and swim-throughs matched to your level |
| Minimum age | 14 | 14 |
| Included | Transfer, standard equipment, lunch, insurance, briefing | Transfer, standard equipment, lunch, insurance, briefing |
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If you have no diving certification, the beginner dive: two guided dives with an instructor beside you, no experience needed. If you hold a certification from a recognised agency, the certified experience takes you to the deeper profiles of this coast with a dive guide.
On the day, in euros, to the operator. Nothing is charged online and no card details are asked for. The price is 45 € per person for the beginner dive and 75 € per person for the certified experience.
Yes — return transfer from hotels in Alanya and the nearby resorts is included. The pickup time depends on your hotel and is confirmed with you the day before; we do not print a fixed time because it would be wrong for half the hotels.
Online until the day before. For a same-day request, message us on WhatsApp and we will tell you honestly whether there is a place on the boat.
No. This site sells one thing: scuba diving in Alanya. Two products, two prices, one professional dive team.
Free of charge up to 24 hours before your dive day. If the sea does not allow diving, we move your date or cancel without charge.
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Alanya Diving
Beginner diving 45 € · certified divers 75 € · pay on the day · free cancellation up to 24 hours before.
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