Simon's Town: Kelp Forest Conservation Dive
Simon's Town, Cape Town
Explore False Bay's Great African Sea Forest on a beginner-friendly conservation dive with one-to-one guidance and marine-life monitoring.
Highlights
- Learn to identify kelp-forest indicator species
- Dive with dedicated one-to-one guidance
- Help monitor endemic marine life in False Bay
- Warm up with hot drinks and South African treats
- Receive a digital checklist and photo-video package
Description
Discover the Great African Sea Forest on a beginner-friendly conservation dive in False Bay. Begin by meeting at the center for an interactive briefing led by a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer. Learn how giant kelp stores carbon and how to recognize key indicator species, including pyjama catsharks, shysharks, and local marine invertebrates.
Get fitted with wetsuits and gear before heading to a protected kelp-forest site selected that morning for the best available visibility and conditions. Possible locations include Windmill Beach, A-Frame in the marine reserve, or Long Beach when conditions are limiting.
Enter the water with dedicated one-to-one guidance and glide among golden sea-bamboo kelp. Apply your new identification skills by spotting and recording endemic marine life in its natural habitat, with the chance to observe African penguins from nearby Boulders Beach.
After the dive, return to base for hot drinks and traditional South African treats. Finish with a species-identification debrief, a personal logbook sign-off, a digital species checklist, and professional photos and video from your kelp-forest experience.
Includes
- Conservation and species-identification briefing
- PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer guidance
- Thermal dive gear
- One-to-one underwater guidance
- Species-identification debrief
- Personal logbook sign-off
- Digital species checklist
- Professional photo and video package
- Hot drinks
- Traditional South African treats
Excludes
- Transport
Important Information
- The exact False Bay dive site is selected on the morning of the activity to provide the best available visibility and calm, protected conditions
Easy cancellation
Cancel up to 24 hours in advance for a full refund
