The only way to improve your knowledge and skills is to just get out there and go for it. Combining these courses gives you a wider understanding, more experience and the opportunity to find out what kind of diving you truly enjoy.

It all begins with the Open Water Diver. Why not slip in the advanced after the Open Water or even the Enriched Air Nitrox? Aside from the obvious fact that they are cheaper once combined, but the Advanced Course allows you to go deeper and experience a whole new world with caves, wrecks and various others. It contains several speciality courses such as Photography, Fish ID, Search and Recovery etc.

The Enriched Air Nitrox, on the other hand, is a major draw for divers as it increases dive times, allowing for longer dives and a reduction in risk of getting decompression sickness. If you’d like to make your time in Kenya’s incredible underwater world even more enjoyable, Nitrox offers just the ticket with the chance to lengthen and enhance your diving experience.

All packages are available at Diving the Crab. If you wish to receive more information, please contact us right here at diving@divingthecrab.com.

We’ve teamed up with the Marine Education Centre to bring you this great guide about how you can help protect our marine environments when you visit the beach. Discover loads of helpful tips and important rules to follow when at the beach to ensure that you don’t damage or harm any of the wonderful marine life that live there.

Please download and share with your friends and family, so we can all help make the world a better place.

When completing an eLearning Lite course with us, it needs to be pre-paid. We offer a less expensive choice than PADI.com.

If you buy the Open Water Diver eLearning Touch separately from PADI.com then you will end up paying a lot more than buying the eLearning Lite directly from Diving the Crab.

So what is eLearning Lite?

ELearning known as electronic learning, is simply studying online. In other words, you can complete your dive theory at home, at your own pace, before arriving at the dive centre to complete the rest. It comes with many benefits!

eLearning Lite is compatible with Apple iOS, Android, Microsoft Windows and OSX operating systems. It’s available in many different languages, you get to keep it for a lifetime and your learning materials automatically update to the latest version. eLearning Lite does not include the course videos, which you will have to watch here at the Dive Centre.

You can buy just the theory part from us and pay the remainder of your course on-location here.

We will send you a link for the payment of your chosen option – course or theory. Once you have made the payment and we received the confirmation, we will register you with PADI and you will be sent a code with the instructions to download your digital learning material.

Kisima Mungu is rich with hundreds of miles of colourful corals both soft and hard. Its beautiful coral heads of considerable size, house all kinds of marine life. One, in particular, is known as the cleaning station. Glass and Damselfish surround our cleaning station in extensively large schools, giving divers an exhilarating feeling as they pass through. Adjacent to the cleaning station are a couple of Stone Fish concealed well in the sand, followed by Lionfish and Scorpionfish which tend to park themselves on top of the Leaf Fish.

Slightly out of sight but still visible, is our newest resident the White Tip Reef Shark. It sits around 20m and typically found resting inside its cave.

Kisima is a beautiful lengthy reef with endless amounts of sprightly Sting Rays, ravenous Turtles and several far-reaching schools of fish. Rare species such as the Indian Walkman and Weedy Scorpionfish have been sighted but it takes the eyes of a hawk to find them.

As you discovered from part 1 of this blog; the shallow lagoons in Diani contain both coral reef and seagrass ecosystems, supporting a diverse array of marine life, and providing a number of vital services such as carbon sequestration.

Our partners at the Marine Education Centre have teamed up with two research organisations and together we are supporting four post-graduate students who are collecting data between Mwachema river and Chale Island.

The two partnering organisations are Coastal Oceans Research and Development – Indian Ocean (CORDIO) and Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI). The CORDIO project is via a second partnership with Allen Coral Atlas (ACA) who are conducting ground-truthing surveys globally, to map the world’s coral reefs. The project itself has been set up in partnership with the National Geographic Society, Wildlife Conservation Society, and a number of universities and NGOs all over the world.

The fieldwork conducted as part of the CORDIO/ACA project here in Diani involves taking hundreds of photos throughout the study area while towing a GPS. The photo is then analysed using CoralNet software to identify the animals, plants and benthos that make up the ecosystem represented in the image. Lastly, the photos are matched with satellite imagery to ‘teach’ the satellite software to recognise what it is ‘seeing’. The overall aim of the project is to use satellite imagery alone to accurately map these shallow-water habitats; it will recognise sand, rock, rubble, coral, seagrass, algae and other life. Once the software can accurately process the satellite images, scientists should be able to track changes in coral reefs worldwide. The maps can then be used to inform conservation policies to preserve and protect these vital ecosystems.

The KMFRI team are conducting surveys to determine the distribution, composition and abundance of seagrass and algal species and their associates in the lagoon. They are both photographing the benthic life and taking samples to accurately identify which species of seagrass and algae occur in a given habitat. Abundance is measured via shoot density and percentage cover within the photographic quadrats, while evidence of reproduction is measured via presence of flowers or fruit on the plants. The team also checks for presence of grazing by sea turtles, predation by sea urchins, or degradation by human practises. Overall, this baseline study of the health of seagrass and algae in the lagoon of our National Reserve will allow us to develop future studies and possible conservation efforts in the area.