Since 1996 we in Aquàtica offer a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere as well as highly professional advice. Enjoy with us the seabottom of l'Estartit and Reserva Marina de les Illes Medes. Open all year !!!
You're invited to know about us througth this pages and visit us soon. Welcome !!!
The theory sessions are definitely not the most fun in a scuba diving course. Nevertheless, they get much better if held in a classroom like ours, equipped with TV set, dvd, whiteboard and all SSI teaching equipment, although with the SSI e-Learning courses we avoid spending too long on these!.
During the diving courses and before diving in the open sea, diving trainees must practice in the pool. Ours is conveniently located right next to our classroom, gear storage room and office.
The toughest part of scuba diving? We think so! But we need to take good care of our equipment and we make that as comfortable as possible for you.
Dressing room and showers, where we can change comfortably and take a nice warm shower after our dives.
Our new boat is perfect to allow 15 divers (authorized for 25 pax).
Huge deck for out&on boarding comfortably, and covered spaces for dry clothes...
A modern filling station (new on 2007, air & nitrox), equipped with everything it needs to guarantee a good quality of the air or Nitrox we'll breath once we're underwater. And all this just beside the boat.
RESPECT: c.1300, from Latin respectus "regard," literally "act of looking back at one," past participle of respicere "look back at, regard, consider," from re- "back" + specere "look at"
To feel or show deferential regard for; esteem for something or someone because of merit, rank, knowledge, age, importance, etc.
RESPECTFUL, LOW IMPACT DIVING Ever since the beginning of our venture at the diving centre in L’Estartit and Medes Islands, we have strived to apply respect to our diving. Respectful diving should arise from love for the sea bed and should lead to a struggle to minimize our impact.
We at Aquatica try to promote this esteem among divers who come enjoy with us the sea beds at the Natural Park Montgrí and Medes Islands. Also, in our diving courses we train sensitive divers, divers with a good command of floatability, which will prevent involuntary body contact with the sea bed, divers who are aware of the value and fragility of the environment and the species that are part of it.
Here are some hints for an even more low impact diving:
1- Mastering floatability allows us to swim in a perfectly horizontal line, never dragging our fins across the sea bed.
2- Equipment well attached to our body, no items hanging. Otherwise, spotlights, cameras, manometers and so on can inadvertently brush against the bottom.
3- Fins always raised from the bottom and far from the walls. If I want to observe a tiny species, it might be better to rest one fingertip on a non-fragile point on the bottom in order to maintain my position.
4- Marine biology training: the better I know the sea bed and its inhabitants, the more aware I’ll be of how important it is to preserve it and the more interesting my dives will be, including the ones where visibility is not so great.
5- Let’s not leave anything but bubbles behind: no waste and no feeding the fish. Be aware that even bubbles, which look so harmless, have an impact on species living on the cave ceilings and the extraploms (???) we visit. Every now and then… respicere… take a look behind to see you are not leaving any traces!