The location of Pemba between the Pemba channel and the open ocean is the key for the most incredibly exciting drift dives you will ever make! Diving in Pemba Island. Wooden walkways and sandy paths lead to eighteen Makuti thatched tented rooms and suites.

we are the only facility on the island to offer SIDE MOUNT certification, TWIN BACKMOUNT. What makes the diving here so special is the coral, which is both pristine and extremely varied. Quick facts Pemba Island Diving Holidays: An Overview . But that's just not everything: the abundance of marine life, big and small, allows astonishing reef and night diving. From July to March, conditions are generally excellent for divers, with little rainfall and water temperature in the high 20°C. Diving in Pemba Island will see you plunge over coral covered walls, soar over coral strewn reef slopes, and enormous, healthy bommies and fans that are surrounded by a plethora of reef fish. But that's just not everything: the abundance of marine life, big and small, allows astonishing reef and night diving. Add on a safari option or Kilimanjaro trek. Swahili Divers is the only RAID Diving Instructor Training Facility in East Africa offering the full range of recreational technical and specialty diving courses. Pemba is a great location for diving and resort activities, it is also the jump off point for travel to the Quirimbas Archipelago. On the west coast of the island, the sea mountains rise up creating incredible dive walls, drop-offs and rich coral gardens with Finding Nemo-esque schools of fish. Diving in Pemba Island. Mafia Island ("Chole Shamba") is part of the Tanzanian Spice Islands, together with Unguja and Pemba. Set on a beautiful beach in the south west of Pemba Island, the hotel is privately owned and run with a love for the natural environment that surrounds it. Wrecks and deep dives are on the menu too. Pemba, like Mafia, is known for its diving, and there’s a good chance of bumping flippers with both bottlenose and spinner dolphins. Mafia Island, Pemba and Zanzibar. (Jaques Coustau rated Pemba one of the worlds best) Steep walls, often strong currents and rich marine life, Reef- and Hammerhead sharks are often seen as well as Manta- and Eagle rays. The diving around Pemba Island, Zanzibar is nothing else but breathtaking. Deep 40, and DECO 40 AND DECO 50. There are but a handful of resorts on the island developed for tourism, so the local population continues to coexist with the natural environment they live in, practicing fishing and subsistence farming.