Agulhas House

Set on the warm coast of Umkomaas, South Africa, Agulhas House pairs a full-service dive centre with comfortable onsite accommodation — a genuine one-stop base for travellers and divers. As a PADI 5 Star Dive Center with over 25 years of diving experience and a resident PADI Instructor, it's geared to look after you from your first breath underwater to confident, repeat dives.

Diving Aliwal Shoal

The centre's diving centres on Aliwal Shoal, a reef renowned for big-animal encounters. Expect sharks, whales, turtles and rays alongside ocean fish, eels and echinoderms, molluscs and crustaceans, plus corals, anemones and jellyfish — a rich cross-section of marine life for divers chasing both the dramatic and the small.

Onsite facilities include a training pool, classroom, retail shop, dive boat and air-conditioned spaces with free Wi-Fi. Services run from air fills and Nitrox to equipment sales, scuba rental and rebreather (CCR) rental. With English, Zulu and Afrikaans spoken, it suits everyone from new students to experienced divers wanting a relaxed, well-equipped home for exploring the Shoal.