Scuba Diving in Sri Lanka

Discover the underwater beauty of Sri Lanka with Scuba Memories. Whether you’re trying scuba diving in sri lanka for the first time or you’re an experienced diver looking for your next underwater adventure, we offer diving experiences for different interests and experience levels.

Choose from try dives, fun dives, night dives, refresher dives, private coaching, deep diving, and wreck diving. Our team can help you explore available diving options around Hikkaduwa and Trincomalee, depending on the location, season, and sea conditions.

Contact us to ask about dive sites, prices, availability, and the best experience for your trip.

Beginner trying scuba diving with an instructor in Sri Lanka

Try Scuba Diving in Sri Lanka

For beginners — no previous scuba diving experience required

Want to experience breathing underwater for the first time? A try dive is a great way to discover scuba diving before committing to a certification course.

Under the guidance of a qualified dive professional, you’ll receive an introduction to the equipment, basic underwater skills, and essential safety procedures before your dive. It’s an opportunity to discover the underwater world and decide whether you’d like to continue learning to dive.

Contact Scuba Memories to ask about beginner diving experiences, suitable locations, age requirements, prices, and available dates.

Fun Dives for Certified Divers

For Qualified Divers

Already hold a scuba diving certification? Join Scuba Memories for guided fun dives and explore Sri Lanka’s underwater reefs, rocky formations, marine life, and suitable dive sites.

Whether you’re travelling with a dive buddy or planning a diving holiday, we can help you choose dives that match your certification, recent experience, and interests. Depending on the site and conditions, you may encounter tropical fish, rays, and other fascinating marine life.

Contact us with your certification level and preferred diving location to enquire about available fun dives.

Scuba diver practising skills with a dive professional

Refresher Dives

For Qualified Divers

Haven’t been scuba diving for a while? A refresher dive can help you revisit essential skills and rebuild your confidence before returning to open-water diving.

With guidance from a dive professional, you’ll review relevant equipment procedures, underwater communication, buoyancy, and basic skills appropriate to your needs. The session can help you identify areas that need extra practice before continuing with regular dives.

Tell us when you last dived and your certification level so we can advise you about suitable refresher options.

Private Scuba Diving Coaching

For Qualified Divers

Want more individual attention while diving? Private coaching offers an opportunity to work with a dedicated dive professional on specific skills, confidence, buoyancy, or other areas you want to improve.

Your session can be tailored to your experience and goals, subject to instructor assessment, appropriate qualifications, and site conditions. It can be particularly useful if you’d prefer personalised guidance rather than a group session.

Contact us to discuss your diving experience, the skills you want to develop, and private coaching availability.

Beginner trying scuba diving with an instructor in Sri Lanka
Scuba instructor providing individual diving guidance

Adventure Dives

For Qualified Divers

This course is  a subset of the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course and also  Have you always wanted to try digital underwater photography, fish identification or dry suit diving? There’s a long list of scuba adventures you can take part in during this program. There are some great tips and techniques that are simple to implement and can drastically improve your underwater photography. If you love taking pictures, I highly recommend this dive. Complete three Adventure Dives and earn the Adventure Diver certification.

Certified scuba diver exploring a deeper dive site

Deep Diving in Sri Lanka

For Qualified Divers

For appropriately qualified divers, deep diving offers the chance to explore deeper underwater environments and experience different dive sites.

Deep dives require additional planning, suitable training, and careful attention to depth limits, gas supply, and dive procedures. The appropriate depth depends on your certification, experience, conditions, and the dive professional’s assessment.

Tell us your certification level and previous deep-diving experience so we can help you explore suitable deep-diving options.

Night Diving

For Qualified Divers

Experience a different side of the underwater world with a guided night dive. As daylight fades, the reef changes, and you may observe marine creatures and behaviours that are less noticeable during the day.

Night diving requires suitable equipment, careful preparation, and appropriate experience. Our team can advise you on prerequisites, available locations, equipment, and conditions before you book.

Interested in exploring the reef after dark? Contact us to ask about night diving availability.

Scuba diver exploring a reef during a night dive
Scuba divers exploring an underwater shipwreck

Wreck Diving

For Qualified Divers

Wreck diving is a type of recreational, and sometimes technical, diving used to explore the wreckage of ships, aircraft and other man-made structures. Almost every scuba diving destination in the world offers some form of wreck diving. For many areas this is as an alternative to diving on coral and other reefs; in other areas, the wrecks are the only diving attraction. Many popular diving wrecks have suffered over the years due to the depredations of souvenir hunting divers. In the past, many areas have had a culture of artefact removal from wrecks, but there has been far greater emphasis on preserving the historical nature of the wrecks

Dive Sites

For Qualified Divers

At our nearly twenty Dodanduwa and Hikkaduwa Dive Sites with different depth from 6 to 30 m we offer Reef Dives, Rock Dives, Deep Dives, Night Dives and combined Diving & Snorkeling Trips

Also Kirala Gala and Black Coral Point are the main attractions in the Hikkaduwa to dive and Hikkaduwa Beach in Sri Lanka is an enchanting shoreline to contribute non-dive vitality where you can also learn about Hikkaduwa’s history and culture at the Tsunami Honganji Vihara and Seenigama Muhudu Viharaya. There is furthermore a Turtle Hatchery and the Coral Sanctuary which justify a look. And Hikkaduwa moreover gets other irregular other pelagic creatures like whale sharks and manta essentially an extraordinary reward! So, it is not only about Hikkaduwa scuba diving but also other amazing experiences!

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Ready to Explore Scuba Diving in Sri Lanka?

Choose your next underwater adventure with Scuba Memories. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced diver, contact us to discuss diving options, prices, locations, and available dates.

Have Questions?

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FAQ Scuba Diving in Sri Lanka

Do I need a scuba diving certification to try diving?

No previous certification is generally required for a supervised beginner experience. Requirements and conditions depend on the specific activity and the dive professional’s assessment.

Yes, certified divers can enquire about guided fun dives. The appropriate dive sites depend on certification, recent experience, conditions, and local availability.
Night dives may be available at suitable locations and under appropriate conditions. Ask us about experience requirements, equipment, and availability.
A refresher session may be appropriate. Tell the dive team about your certification and how long it has been since your last dive so they can recommend the right preparation.

Scuba Memories serves diving visitors around Hikkaduwa and Trincomalee. Specific activities and sites depend on the location, season, and sea conditions.

Contact Scuba Memories through the website’s WhatsApp button or email address to discuss your preferred activity, travel dates, group size, and experience level.
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