Course overview

Certified divers can explore Trincomalee's best sites on guided fun dives, with no course required, ranging across Pigeon Island Marine Park reefs, the deeper rocky sites near Swami Rock and the area's wrecks. Depending on your certification you can dive to 30 metres in calm, warm water alongside black-tip reef sharks, barracuda, trevally, rays and turtles.

What you’ll learn

• Explore varied reef, rock and wreck sites with a guide
• Apply your existing skills in a new destination
• Spot east-coast marine life like reef sharks and rays
• Build experience and logged dives
• Practise good buoyancy over delicate reefs
• Enjoy diving without classroom sessions

Prerequisites

• A recognised scuba certification (e.g. PADI Open Water or higher)
• Logbook or proof of certification
• Recent dive experience or a refresher if you have been inactive
• Diver medical self-declaration

What's included · What's not

Probability of sightings · month-by-month

What you're likely to see each month, based on historic operator logs.

Day-by-day itinerary

1. Day1
   Guided fun diving

   Join guided dives on the Pigeon Island reefs and deeper rocky sites near Swami Rock, matched to your certification and conditions, with marine-life spotting throughout.

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