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My wife and I dived with Ocean Spirit in December 2022. We undertook a total of 26 dives with them, ranging from reef dives, night dives, wreck dives and shark dives.
We are PADI Rescue with 20 years experience and over 400 dives each and always take our own equipment.
We have dived all over the world including South Africa, Maldives, Fiji, Red Sea (5 times), Mexico both sides, Caribbean……. The list goes on and we are also regular UK divers. The reason I state this is to demonstrate that we have other places to compare Ocean Spirit with.
Our interests lie mainly in shark/pelagic encounters and this was the primary reason we booked to dive in Mauritius - don’t get me wrong there are many places in the world where the encounters are greater, but Palau etc from the UK are just too expensive.
Before we booked our flights to Mauritius (£672 return) I contacted a number of dive centres to see what was offered and by whom, I have learned that you get a very early feel for a dive centre from responses you get in advance of booking, some promise the earth or don’t respond or change the information when you probe deeper eg they disclose that you are actually visiting in the wrong season for that species. OS were honest from the start and very responsive to questions, I got the sense they actually cared about managing our expectations, no promises of sightings etc, their website was clear with pricing and they clarified their prices for us taking our own gear, having said that their own gear was of a very high standard and we would have been completely happy to use theirs (we have experienced some appalling dive gear over the years with different centres hence we use our own).
On arrival in Mauritius we went in person to the dive centre and met with the staff who were very friendly and accommodating, it was clear that they cater for every range of experience from non divers undertaking a ‘try dive’, to new starters, to the more experienced.
The staff were a pleasure to deal with and couldn’t do enough to help, everyone has a passion for diving. The owners Jill and Roger are like newbies with their enthusiasm (Roger 40+ years of diving coming up to his 6000 dive!!!). We dived with them both regularly and can say they bring a tranquility and professionalism to the experience, coupled with their professional instructors Bernard (what a character and comedian) Bobby, Yo, Nandi and Dhani.
I will also give a special mention to Jovani (at the helm of their dive boat which is a very comfortable purpose built dive boat not all dive boats in Mauritius are in my view suitable for comfortable or safe entry/exit - choose your dive centre carefully) as an experienced boat skipper myself, it’s very comforting when a skipper with Jovanis experience is dropping you off and getting you out - his boat handling is exceptional.
The diving OS provided was varied with different sites and they go the extra mile to ensure you see as much as you can, IF you decide you want to do the shark dives, which I highly recommend, your experience will be taken into account and your safety managed to an exceptional level.
My acid test is - “Would I book to dive with OS again?”
My answer - 100% definitely yes!!!
Excellent dive centre, Excellent Facilities, Excellent equipment, Excellent safety standards, Excellent staff. Well done guys and thank you for a wonderful 2 weeks - via 
Dived with RSDC 22 years ago when my wife and I were new to diving, we were massively impressed all those years ago but that could have been as we hadn’t been anywhere else in the world to compare.
Since then we have literally travelled the world diving many many many great experiences and a few terrible ones.
This year totally depressed with the UK weather we decided to do a last minute to the Red Sea (for the 5th time) and decided on Sharm. Geographically our hotel was a long way from Naama Bay so I didn’t consider RSDC as I thought they were too far away and in any case would be too expensive to get a taxi each day. I posted on a Sharm tourist site for recommendations for diving centres and low and behold RSDC messaged me personally confirming they would pick us up and drop us back each day and offered us very reasonably priced daily diving.
They picked us up at our hotel on day one, exactly as they had said and transported us to their dive centre which we hadn’t seen for 22 years. Now about to undergo renovation it was as we remembered it although Naama bay has been changed beyond recognition.
My wife and I undertook a total of 16 dives with RSDC during the week and were very pleased that their ethos of safe diving has not changed, the staff were lovely, the company very professional, the guides very experienced,the boat very suitable and adapted for diving (not all boats suit diving - trust me we have dived off some shockers). During our dives we saw Sharks, Turtles, Giant Grouper……., the list goes on.
Hannah our guide for the week was a pleasure to dive with, she allowed the more experienced to within reason do their own thing, whilst closely monitoring those that were not so competent. Regardless of your level of experience these guys will adapt your diving to suit. Some of the wall dives are 2000m bottom depth, so no one is going to be ‘tethered’ to newbies flapping about at 10m - that’s not a criticism we’ve all been there.
We loved every single dive with these guys and the boat crew who amongst the best we’ve dived with.
I cannot recommend Red Sea Diving College enough - I’m trying to get my daughter to do her OW and I will if she agrees, bring her to RSDC to do her course, that’s how highly I trust them.
Red Sea Diving College have been around for a very long time and that’s for a reason
Thank you so much again
Steve and Julie
England
RSDC The Original and still the best - via