Luca Smecca

Portofino Diving Group  is a 5* PADI Instructor Development Centre and a registered SSI Training Centre based in Santa Margherita, Liguria, 2 kms from world famous port of Portofino

We offer a 5* service and logistic:
We have 3 dive centres equipped with new Mares equipment, large changing rooms with private lockers, classrooms, 6 warm showers and separate areas to rinse off dive gear.
We have 7 boats and 300 tanks and are able to manage small dive clubs as well as large groups.
Equipment and tanks are transported to the boat by the staff in our APECAR’s. 
The marine environment of Portofino has been protected since 1999 and is one of the most bio-diverse and unique in the Mediterranean. Big snappers, schools of barracudas and giant groupers are seen every day.
Moon fish appear in large numbers in summer.  Walls of red corals & gorgonian .  Nudibranche, anenomes, moray eels, octopus & lobsters.
WW2 Wrecks for recreational and TEC diving