Discover Scuba Diving from Age Ten — Poseidon Dive Centre, Protaras
A guided first dive with an SSI centre on Kavo Greko Avenue in Protaras, 85 € per person and open from ten years old. You leave with photographs of the experience, and if you come back within six months a second discovery dive is 80 €. Children of eight and nine get the Bubble Maker instead, also 85 €, capped at two metres. No swimming ability is required for the try dive.
Ayia Napa & Protaras, Cyprus · €85 per person for one guided discovery dive, from 10 years old · EN
What is this tour like?
Poseidon Dive Centre sits in a shop unit on Kavo Greko Avenue in Protaras, ten kilometres up the coast from Ayia Napa, and its Discover Scuba Diving is the entry point of its 2026 price list at 85 € per person.
The centre's own framing is modest and exact: a guided dive with which to discover what it is to breathe underwater, and pictures of the experience to take home. Age ten is the floor for this programme and for any full course; eight- and nine-year-olds are pointed to the Bubble Maker, which the FAQ caps at two metres depth and which is also 85 €.
Before you get in the water there is paperwork, and the centre is unusually clear about it. On arrival you fill in a customer record, liability releases and a PADI Medical Statement, answering every medical question with a plain yes or no. A single yes means you need a physician's authorisation to dive, which is why the centre advises calling your doctor before the trip if you already know of a condition. It will supply the forms.
Swimming is not a requirement here — the FAQ separates the try dive from the Open Water course, where 200 comfortable metres of swimming is expected. What the centre does ask for is general fitness and no diving with a cold, congestion, an ear infection, active asthma or alcohol in your system. Spectacles cannot be worn under a mask; contact lenses are fine.
The diving itself happens around Cape Greco National Park, which the centre describes as calm, shallow water that suits beginners, with rock formations and marine life. All the local sites are shore dives, so nothing here depends on a boat. On the season, the centre gives a straight answer that few Cypriot operators publish: in Protaras it runs generally from mid-April to the end of the first week of November.
If the dive works out, the programme is a stepping stone rather than a dead end — the centre says Discover Scuba Diving can be the first part of the Open Water course, which it prices at 475 € over three mornings.
What are the highlights?
- From ten years old, with no swimming ability required for the try dive
- The centre says you leave with photographs of the experience
- Diving is in the Cape Greco National Park — calm, shallow water the centre calls great for beginners
- A second discovery dive within six months costs 80 €
- For eight- and nine-year-olds there is the Bubble Maker at 85 €, shallow and to a two-metre limit
- The programme can count as the first part of the Open Water course if you carry on
How does the day go, hour by hour?tap a photo to enlarge
- Paperwork at the dive centre
A customer record, liability releases and a PADI Medical Statement, each medical question answered yes or no. Any yes means a physician's authorisation is needed before diving.
- Gear and briefing
All the gear you need is at the centre. The FAQ notes that a mask of your own is more comfortable on a course, and that a prescription mask or contact lenses solve the glasses problem.
- The guided dive
A guided descent at one of the local shore sites around Cape Greco, which the centre describes as calm and shallow and suited to beginners.
- Pictures, and what comes next
The centre says you leave with pictures of the experience. A second discovery dive within six months is 80 €, and the programme can serve as the first part of the Open Water course.
What's included in the price?
- A guided discovery dive with the centre's instructor
- Pictures of the experience, which the price page says you leave with
- The medical and liability forms, which the centre supplies at the shop
What's not included?
- A second discovery dive — 80 € if it is done with Poseidon within six months
- Dive insurance, which the centre calls a good idea rather than a requirement
- A physician's authorisation, if any answer on the medical statement is yes
What should you know before you go?
Who runs this tour?
Where do we meet?
Poseidon Dive Centre, Shop 7, 469 Kavo Greko Avenue, Protaras 5296, Paralimni, Cyprus. Open Monday to Sunday, 09.00–17.00;. Protaras is about ten kilometres from Ayia Napa and lies on the same coast. The coordinates are an approximate point for Kavo Greko Avenue in Protaras, not a surveyed position of the shop.
Exact meeting point shared after booking.
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