Batavia Coast Dive Academy

BCDA

Batavia Coast Dive Academy was originally established back in 1976 as an Educational tourism facility specialising in all facets of underwater activities. Batavia Coast Dive was named after the infamous Dutch East India Ship wreck that went down off the coast of Geraldton at the Abrolhos Islands in 1628. Not to be associated with too much of a sinking ship; as of 2007 Batavia Coast Dive Academy’s has shortened its name to BCDA with the emphasis on the ‘D’ for DIVE. This year the business took up new ownership with a great team of staff, loyal customers together with our all new logo and revamped decorative order the business is set to see in the next 25 years! So come on in....

We are right in the center of town next to the Noodle bars and opposite a great Italian Restaurant. Whether your on foot or traveling by car we can accommodate you with our own car parking facilities and amenities for all to come in and browse or join us for your next dive course. Access to the local shore dives and boat dives are a simple 2minute walk or 5 minute complimentary drive
to get you out diving off our boat.

Between dives you can strick up the barbeque out the back of the business as we often get together in the sun to have a beer or two and refreshments. At BCDA we take pride in what we have to offer as a facility for tourism and our local community of divers alike with a full range of adventures and facilities availed in our service menu of what is on offer in house onsite.

We are after all the only site specifically built dive centre in town and as such we have all the necessary facilities aboard to provide catering to serving all your needs down under. With a newly installed heating system we provide balmy temperatures inside our onsite indoor heated swimming pool - where all our training can be done in comfort in our professional, safe & fun dive environment.

The retail floor provides you with the choice and quality of dive goodies that you require to go out and get wet and be inspired to further your experience knowledge and capabilities in locating the equipment you want to dive with. We provide Onsite Servicing for all your dive equipment needs and can provide everything to ensure you continue to get wet and have some happy safe dives.

The Professional Team here provides Instructors , Dive Cons to Service Agent and Retail managers to compliment the services which are here to provide you ‘our dive community’ the Professional, fun safe dive environment you want to return to again and again. Monthly updates of all our in-house activities, Boat Dives, Dive Excursions, events etc, wether you require to locate a buddy to dive with or want to refresh you skills get a cylinder fill for your next dive whatever your needs we are here to serve you.

We have a full library of Dive books, maps, posters online info and materials in our lounge area for you to sit in comfort to ID the fish life, have a coffee, catch up, connect to the internet or simply watch the scrolling photographs taken that day from the dive. Our Classrooms are fully air conditioned and offer the full range of Courses so you can continue your education into diving in comfort to meet with all the levels of diving you can want to access. So come on in and get wet or simply join us to catch up in the latest dive adventures over a coffee. Happy Diving!

Affiliation:

SSI

Training Level:

up to Instructor

Boat Description:

Helicopter Eco-Tours The Helicopter is a unique enterprise to this facility here at BCDA. Nicknamed ‘Nemo’ for obvious reasons in both colour and resemblance to the world renown anemone fish and also the decision by the Helicopter crew acknowledging Nemo meaning no name was appropriate! The Helicopter itself is the only fully working amphibious Sikorsky S62A in Australia and only three of its kind in the world! Following trial flights back in November 2005 economic viability suggested the opportunity to provide ‘Eco Tours’ catering for Scuba Diving, snorkeling or ornithological activities to be on offer at a pristine location at the Abrolhos Islands. In collaboration with Batavia Coast Dive Academy and the Batavia Community Rescue Helicopter each person is provided with a unique fun day out onboard a helicopter which can carry 8 passengers and 3 crew combined with their choice of activity.

Sites Visited:

Discover an unspoilt world that is the Abrolhos Islands. The spectacular coral gardens offer sheltered warmer seas to offer you their unique mix of both tropical and temperate marine species. Warm Southern Flowing currents create a marine environment that breeds fish life at every turn. The Coral growth provides a spectacle of colour offering home to many species of plant and marine life. The warm sea currents around the Abrolhos maintain temperatures allowing the corals, sea grasses, tropical fish and other sea life to thrive in an area they wouldn’t normally be found. Sea lions often accompany our divers and escort our snorkelers through the colourful reef systems. Exploring the delights underwater is where the islands really come to life. Discover a richness of corals with drop offs that can access up to 40 metres to offer you dives within your comfort and certified level. As with coral walls you don’t have to dive deep to enjoy the life beneath most of the colour and life are in those precious first ten metres making this a true paradise for all whether a diver or not you’ll be tempted to get wet! We can provide a variety of ways to accessing getting there... being some 60 – 90 Kilometers from the mainland you can take a short 35 minute flight by Helicopter to take up two dives in a day or take a window of time and come onboard one of our dive excursions. As there is no accommodation out there you will we have to opportunity to join one of our live aboard trips accommodation is provide onboard whereby we can arrange for group bookings over a weekend. So contact us today so we can arrange to provide you with an unforgettable experience in accessing the wonders these Islands have to offer.

Facilities:

• Own Liveaboard(s)
• Own Boat(s)
• Gear Service
• Diving seven days
• Showers

• Own pool
• Nitrox fills
• Scuba hire
• Resort/Intro Dives