Diving in Nosy Be, Madagascar

 

In this small corner of the Indian Ocean everyone can dive and experience the fortune of being able to “access” the beauties of the hidden part of our planet: the underwater world.

 

Nosy Be has a variety of dive sites with different and constantly changing environments: Nature regulates seasons, tides, moon phases influencing currents, visibility, marine life.

 

 

Coral or rocky seabeds, walls, wrecks, caves, continental slopes, offer wide possibilities of choice.

 

You can dive carried by the current or swim in a “forest” of giant gorgonian fans, you can explore shipwrecks or look for naked schools and small benthic animals or even… be enchanted by mobulas that appear unexpectedly as they seem to fly in a liquid sky.

Or relaxing dives in the Marine Park where you can be enchanted by the colors and quantity of underwater life, swimming alongside a sea turtle who is not at all afraid and who looks at you carelessly, looking for some coral to nibble.

 

However, there are also more challenging dives, for expert divers, descents into the blue, walls on the external front towards the Mozambique channel… with sightings of pelagic fish, encounters with sharks (gray shark, white tip shark, leopard shark, hammerhead shark ) sailfish, tuna (yellowfin tuna, thazard) barracuda.

And what about the indescribable emotion of meeting the giants of the sea in some months of the year: whale sharks and humpback whales!!!

 

In fact, even the temperature of the sea and its richness in plankton have their importance: humpback whales choose the warm waters of Nosy Be at certain times of the year to reproduce and give birth, while the whale shark chooses the period richest in plankton to eat.

 

Sharing these experiences with nature offers great emotions and truly unique sensations.

 

Every dive into the underwater world hides “surprise” encounters that will be the protagonists of the stories that will enrich your experiences and your most beautiful memories.

The briefing takes place on the day of arrival. We collect personal equipment which will be returned at the end of the stay… we will take care of it and it will always be ready in the morning on the boat!

 

On the day of the dive we pick up the clients directly by boat on the beach of the hotel where they are staying. In the few cases where the hotel is very far away we organize taxis/shuttles departing from the diving site.

 

In the morning you do 2 dives with a surface interval of approximately 1 hour. With the exception of the periods in which there are whales and whale sharks: in these cases we use the break to go in search of these splendid creatures!

 

The choice of the dive spot of the week (sometimes even the next day) is made by evaluating tide phases, current coefficients, winds, diver skills… and trying to vary in any case in order to explore the various environments.

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An amazing marine park opens up around the island
The island is located south of Nosy Be

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Banco Lila is the continuation of a splendid dive:
the Sakatia Caves.

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In truth, these are three wrecks located south of Nosy Be,
arranged on a sandy seabed…

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The Entree Bank is certainly the largest coral reef in the surrounding area,
it is 6-7 miles long…

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Certainly one of the most characteristic dives of the place,
a simple dive, on a very rich shoal…

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A small bank located not far from
the island of Sakatia.

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A one-of-a-kind bench

chamot

It is a shoal formed by two humps (chamot means camel)
positioned exactly in the direction……

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It is a bank with the classic sandy/coralline conformation
and is very large…

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The Sakatia arches are located exactly
west of Nosy Sakatia.

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Ideal for baptisms, courses, night dives and
especially for lovers of macro photography

atnam

The Atnam dive is certainly among
the most beautiful we can offer.