We appreciate that you are on holiday and we will not wake you for a 5.00am boat launch - unless it is your choice to do so! Relax on Kendwa Beach and join any of our many launches each day. We plan our dives around the tides to offer you the best visibility and least currents. However, our diverse reefs offer brilliant diving any time of day, and year-round diving. You my choose drift diving, deep diving, fish identification or an exhilerating night dive! Our fringing Kendwa Reef offers lovely coral bommies close to shore in shallow water, however our diving and snorkelling trips are all by boat.

Snorkellers may choose to go to Kendwa Reef and Kendwa Gardens which are located 800 meters out from our dive base and hence only a couple minutes by boat. Enthusiastic snorkellers may choose to swim to the reef - please stop by the dive centre for tips and pointers.

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Boats & Equipment

We dive from rigid inflatable boats which drop us on the dive site and then pick us up after surfacing - so, no long surface swims back to the boat! We travel to the dive sites quickly and safely - not to mention that the dolphins love our boats!

Each boat is powered with NEW, twin Yamaha 85hp engines and they are equipped with marine radios to enable communications both between boats and with our bases. Each boat also has a Garmin GPS to ensure precise and accurate drops on dive sites.

You will find top-quality diving equipment at Scuba Do with our AP Valve "Buddy Explorer" BCDs, Mares R2DFC and Sherwood Brute regulators depending on your preferences, and REEF South Africa wetsuits. Our masks and fins are Mares, IST and Divetek, covering a variety of sizes and styles to guarantee a comfortable fit.

Safety Procedures

We pride ourselves on our stringent safety procedures and we do everything within our power to ensure you have a safe diving holiday. Our divemasters carry surface marker buoys on all dives and we issue pocket surface marker buoys to each diver or buddy team, depending upon the dive site and conditions. Our compressor air quality is regularly tested by the local Bauer agent and we also have a Wenoll-System emergency oxygen re-breather, a paramedic grab bag and a fully stocked medical kit available.

All of our sites offer a wide range of beautiful soft and hard corals.
The marine life seen on many of our dives include angelfish, butterfly fish, moorish idols, lionfish, surgeon fish, trigger fish, clown fish, damsel fish, cuttle fish, cray fish, puffer fish, box fish, parrot fish, nudibranches, shrimps, crabs, wrasses, snappers, eels, sting rays, dolphins, barracudas, sweet lips, groupers and turtles, plus many many more!

Listed below are the sites regularly dived by Scuba Do. We are very flexible and will try our best to arrange the dives you want.

Made up of a series of interconnected bommies consisting of hard and soft corals at 18m, Hunga Reef is one of the best dive sites in Zanzibar. Often seen are big shoals of barracuda, tuna and snappers. You can also expect to see parrotfish, unicorn fish, schools of sweetlips and brightly coloured coral grouper. Nearby and at a depth of 15m Nankivell Reef consists of giant plate corals in fascinating formations. This reef is home to rays, napoleon wrasse, giant remoras and groupers.

Tumbatu Island is surrounded by a coral shelf, which supports a diverse selection of colourful corals and small reef fish. Gentle currents and calm waters offer a relaxing dive either along a shallow coral wall 8 - 12m deep at Three Turtles or a gradual bank at Coral Beach. On the tip of Tumbatu is a lovely dive site known as Mwana wa Mwana with a gradual sloping wall from 5 to 12 metres. Several of our guests have commented that this dive has the best variety of corals seen in the world and we believe this looks identical to the reef in "Finding Nemo"! Tumbatu is Zanzibar's best kept scuba secret!

Mnemba Atoll is a favourite with many divers and visibility here is often in excess of 20m. You will find a variety of dive sites with depths between 10 and 30m, suitable for both beginners and advanced divers. Visit Kichwani Wall, a steep coral bank with a number of small crevices hiding lion fish and porcupine fish, if you look up to the top of the wall you may be lucky and see the occasional pod of dolphins swimming by, or look out into the blue to see schools of kingfish and grouper. Further round the atoll, Watta Bommy and the Aquarium are the favourite locations for turtles. Both Hawksbill and green turtles come here to rest on top of the plate corals and are very patient with divers as well as those with cameras!

Near the famous Mnemba Atoll, The Great Wall is an advanced deep dive with a depth ranging from 30 to 50 metres. This site boasts dominant brain coral. Napolean wrass, snappers and tuna are often seen and turtles can also be found here.

Leven Bank is an undersea mountain approximately 6km long. The surrounding deep water and strong currents bring schools of large pelagic fish to the area. Either drift with the current along the top of the bank at 18 -25m or drop on the side of the bank at 30m and make your way to the top. Expect to see moray eels and octopus and be surrounded by schools of tuna, barracuda and kingfish. An exhilarating dive recommended for advanced divers.

Our local reef known as Kendwa Reef offers several dive sites which are ideal for beginners or qualified divers interested in a long shallow dive. The coral reef runs parallel to shore and has a maximum depth of 8-10m you will see many small reef fish and beautiful anenomes hiding in the coral garden. Kendwa Gardens is a specific drop on this reef offering a shallow dive with many nudibranches, spanish dancers, pipefish and occasionally marbled electric rays. Come to Kendwa Reef after dark for a night dive and see a completely different selection of aquatic life.

Mbele ya Mwizi is just along the beach from Scuba Do Dive Centre. It consists of a coral reef 5 - 15m deep. Rare staghorn coral grows in this area and frequent visitors include squid, cuttlefish and a variety of rays.

Around the northern tip of Zanzibar Island, a stunning wall of lattice or maze coral fringes the island. With depths ranging from 10 to 20 metres, we dive Kichafi and Haji reefs and often both reefs within the same dive. Mbwangawa is another one of our favourites with a variety of corals in combination with a variety of fish life. Chakatuni is another reef on the northeast tip which borders on deeper waters and is best to dive on the high slack tide to minimise the currents.