We are the leading certifying dive centre in the country and a PADI 5 * Dive Centre, offering a wide range of diving courses in the Cook Islands. We offer quality diving in a fun and friendly atmosphere. Whether these are your first bubbles, you are already qualified and you are diving for fun, or you want to progress your professional diving career all the way to Instructor level, we have dives to suit you!
For all your equipment needs, we are the Cook Islands distributor and service centre for Scubapro, Suunto and Mares products with online sales available at www.diverarotongaonline.com
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We are committed to preserving our diving environment. To that end and to compliment our Coral Transplant Project, we have gained the permissions and authority to install six new fixed moorings on the west of the island at our popular sites. This is a process involving Ministry of Transport, National Environment Service and Cook Islands Tourism. They are now in place as of 19th October, before our target of the end of 2023. We have also gained Greenfins digital membership and have been awarded the PADI Eco Centre rating. The first Dive Centre in Oceania to do so. On the back of this, we’re actively encouraging customers to only use Reef Safe sun screens while on the Island and particularly on our tips. We will have stocks of this in the shop as well as Reef Safe mask de-fog.
Neil Davison owns and runs Dive Rarotonga — here is a bit about him and the Team
Neil learned to dive in the spectacular conditions of the UK, with experience gained predominantly at Stoney Cove, Capernwray and Porthkerris in the Atlantic!
First diving in the 80s and finally taking it up seriously around thirteen years ago, he is a PADI Master Instructor and EFR Instructor Trainer.
Neil worked for several years within his UK Dive Centre before working in Madagascar as Dive Safety Officer and providing training all the way from Discover Scuba to Assistant Instructor and Staffing Instructor Development Courses. Neil’s experience has convinced him that warmer waters are far more fun! Despite diving in Egypt, the Maldives and many places in between, the Cook Islands is his happy place.
Training Marine Biologists to dive on and around the amazing Barrier Reef system in the south-west corner of Madagascar confirmed for Neil that the Tropics and associated fauna are for him. He is passionate about sharing the amazing aquatic and marine world, and keen to perpetuate everyone’s love of the water.
Neil teaches multiple PADI Specialities, has now written six approved PADI Distinctive Specialities based around Coral Reef Conservation and transplantation learned in Madagascar and is a factory-trained Mares and Scubapro service technician. He is RYA Powerboat qualified with Cook Islands Boat Master certification.
Neil also has an engineering and Health and Safety background, with NEBOSH certifications in the latter.
Selina Shariff
Selina is a PADI IDC Staff Scuba Diving Instructor. She has been a PADI professional for over 12 years and has certified hundreds of divers. The majority of her diving career was spent in the warm waters of Thailand where she gained valuable experience teaching and motivating divers to continue their PADI education up to professional levels.
Originally from New Zealand, Selina moved to Rarotonga in 2017 so she could experience what the Cook Islands had to offer. She has not been disappointed and has had many memorable diving experiences here, including diving with humpback whales and hammerhead sharks.
“I like to give divers a fun safe environment where they can relax and be in awe of the beauty of Rarotonga’s underwater world.”
Milan Bourgogne
Milan is a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer and joins us from France, he is both a PADI Speciality Instructor and Sidemount diver. He has a wealth of experience gained from diving around the world including Honduras, Mexico, Djibouti and Turks and Caicos with extensive boat experience too. Milan as well as being a qualified gas blender is also fluent in French, Spanish and English languages
