Great. - Great activity! Professional and interesting staff. Just as pleasant as it is safe. The sea trip is worth it.

An incredible diving... - An incredible diving experience! The team is absolutely professional, and the instructors are true experts who make you feel safe and confident every step of the way. You'll be amazed by the variety of fish and marine life you encounter. Highly recommended!

Our favourite experience in Madeira - Amazing experience! We’ve never done this before but the friendly staff thoroughly explained everything and made us feel at ease! It was great to practice in the pool before heading out to sea. Made us both fall in love with Scuba diving and would definitely do it again! Definitely pay the extra and get the underwater cameras - the photos were amazing and a great memory

Amazing Diving Experience – Highly Recommended! - Amazing Diving Experience – Highly Recommended! On July 5th, my girlfriend and I decided to try a discovery dive together, and from start to finish we were guided by Vivian, an incredibly kind and helpful instructor. She explained all the tips and tricks of diving during the trial lesson, making us feel completely comfortable and safe. After practicing in the pool, we got to head straight into the sea for our first real dive—an unforgettable experience! We were so excited afterwards that we decided to immediately sign up for our Open Water PADI certification. That same day, we completed all the required safety exercises in the pool. On Monday, July 7th, we did our next three dives, once again under the amazing guidance of Vivian. During our first dive in the open water, we even saw a seal—something we never expected and a dream come true for both of us! We successfully completed everything and truly enjoyed every moment of it. The whole experience was professional, fun, and incredibly rewarding. We can’t thank Vivian and the team enough for their patience, clear explanations, and warm support throughout. We highly recommend this dive school to anyone looking to try diving or get certified!

Excellent team - Excellent experience! We came for a diving baptism, and everything was explained very well! My friend was very anxious and the instructor was very patient and accompanied her throughout the dive (pool + sea). A big thank you to her and the whole team which is great and very competent I recommend without hesitation, go ahead!

Miguel made this experience - Excellent training with Miguel who was patient and fun. Amazing experience, detailed training and would highly recommend to any first timers.

Miguel is the best! - This was my first scuba diving experience and Miguel did an amazing job. We started with a on land theory training about equipments and breathing and moved on to pool training. Breathing with mouth and a regulator was so different from breathing with noses and swimming. I had problem getting used to it at the beginning and miguel reassured me that i would be alright. And when we moved to the ocean dive, i panicked after some water leaked into my regulator and i inhaled/ swallowed some water through both noses and mouth. I didn’t know what to do at the time with a regulator in my mouth because my instinct was to cough but i didnt know how to cough in the water. I had to tell miguel and he brought me up back to the surface. He asked me what happened and calmed me down. We practiced again and i ended up being able to enjoy it more than i imagined. If it wasn’t for Miguel, i would have aborted the whole thing at the beginning. Miguel was the best! Highly recommended! PS. All equipments may not be brand new but they are clean. The experience took place in a hotel so the pool, showers and changing rooms were very clean. They even had hot water in the showers.

Great experience - Our instructor Miguel was very helpful and friendly - me and my partner were complete beginners and felt so safe. Great customer service, we booked the 2pm session at around 10.30am the same day and they phoned to say due to the bad weather the night before we could go tomorrow instead or a bit earlier for better visibility and we went over straight away and they did it for us. Highly recommend

Fun, but learn basics of scuba diving ahead of time so you can fill in the blanks the instructors miss yourself - Scuba diving as an idea is awesome. You will see abundant sea life in clear water. You will not regret spending the money for this experience. Having said that, I feel that my experience at Madeira Divepoint had both positive as well as problematic experiences. The Good 1. The staff is very friendly. They make you feel safe. 2. The changing facility is fine and conveniently located right next to the Atlantic Ocean. 3. There is a good instructors-to-student ratio when the group moves from the pool to the sea to ensure safety. 4. There is a good amount of sea life to practically guarantee a mentally stimulating experience. The problems 1. (Minor problem) Madeira Divepoint shares the swimming pool with Hotel Carlton, which is packed with families swimming in the pools. So we had to train in a pool with holiday goers just splashing around. They used a rope to reserve about half of the pool for us. But with five students in scuba equipment, that is still a little tight. 2. (Bigger problem) I feel the lack of proper matching of their equipment with the individual needs of the client is a problem. The biggest struggle I had was improper weighting for buoyancy. Nobody weighed the clients as a starting point before giving us the equipment in order to determine proper buoyancy, be it providing lead weights equivalent to 10% the divers body weight or whatever combination of equipment was used. They just asked us what size shoes we wear for the fins and eye balled us to give us the suits. After the students put on their suits, the staff just grabbed random lead weight belts from a pile to put on us, regardless of our weight or height. Then they put tanks on us and that was all before sending us off to the training pool. This is how my buoyancy problem started. The first instructor observed me with buoyancy problems and thought it was a result of me breathing too quickly, leading me to keep air in my lungs. But I wasn't breathing quickly. I would let all the air out of my lungs and I still stayed afloat with the buoyancy control device's bladders totally empty. After more observation he realized that I needed tree additional lead weights, which he put on for me. Great. But for some unexplained reason, our second instructor took all those three weights off of me, saying that I don't need them. She never checked me for neutral buoyancy. She said all I have to do to attain neutral buoyancy is to keep my head lower than my feet and keep my body straight. Having the hands out like superman also helps tilt the head down. This way, I would naturally swim downward as I kick. Well, yes, that is all true. But that means as soon as I stopped kicking to go forward, I started to float. I expressed that I needed the weights back for proper buoyancy, but she insisted that I didn't need them. She sensed my doubt so she decided to give me back two of the three that my first instructor put on me, saying that she was giving two back to make me feel better. However, the third weight that she didn't give back to me turned out to be crucial. After she put the two weights back on me, we got out of the training pool to start exploring the sea. Bad idea. The buoyancy problem just followed me to the sea, spoiling a lot out of my enjoyment. Over and over again I keep floating. If I managed to swim down, I had to grab on to rocks just to stay down. It was a constant struggle. Another instructor noticed my struggles and immediately he grabbed the power inflator of my buoyancy control device (BCD) thinking maybe there was air in my BCD's bladder. He pressed the deflator button only to find out the BCD bladders were already empty. But once out at sea, there was not much he or I could do. It would take too much time to go back to to the building to grab more weights. So I just tried to cope and struggle, grabbing rocks as I went. Another instructor noticed me grabbing rocks, which led her to wag her fingers at me, thinking I was an inconsiderate tourist destroying the ecosystem. The instructor who took my weights away grabbed me a few times to push my head down and push my feet up. Again, that worked only if I keep moving at a constant speed. As soon as the group slowed down or stopped for the group oxygen level check or for photos, I started floating uncontrollably. When the dive was over, although I enjoyed seeing the sea life, I felt the whole experience was just wrong. Yes, I could swim against the excessive buoyancy, but only if I kept swimming without stopping AND if I grabbed onto rocks to pull myself down every few meters, destroying the ocean environment. All in all, I would highly recommend scuba diving anywhere. On Madeira, the water is clear and teeming with life. But I feel the operators of these scuba diving tours, or at least Madeira Divepoint, are under time pressure to give tourists a thrill at the expense of thoroughness, leading the staff to sacrifice important attention to details. So if you want to scuba dive and have no experience, it would be best to educate yourself ahead of time so that you go into it already armed with the necessary basic knowledge so you can advocate for yourself better. Just watching a few YouTube videos will go a long way. If something feels wrong, don't just go with the flow, assuming that the instructors have done all their due diligence for you. Don't let the staff just rush you through the program. Demand that the staff fix what feels wrong immediately before allowing the group from proceeding to the next step. It is in the group's best interest that every single member is setup properly.

Fun experience - Great experience overall, the instructors started arguing with eachother. Besides that awkward altercation, it was a quick and fun introduction. Even for someone with open water course.