Diving in Portugal

[adrianlunn]

Hi heading down to Cascais a small town / village out side lisbon does any body know of any dive clubs there or could point me in the right direction, my wife is Portuguese and her family have drawn blanks.

[Chris aka divingchef]

Hi
There is mergulho mania www.mergulhomania.com on the costa verde. One of their favorites is the U-1277. Sunk by its own crew that had had enough and surrendered to the neutral Portuguese. It is upright in 32msw half covered in sand and mainly intact. It does have monofilament netting in places.

If you type U 1277 into youtube there are 3 or 4 not brilliant videos that should give you a feel.
We have organized trips there in the past, its a 2 hour drive from us.

probably 3 hours from Lisboa.

A lot of Portuguese clubs come up to Galicia to dive. I will ask around for you.


In the meanwhile here is a list of clubs and centerers.
http://centros.forum-mergulho.com/

type in "mergulho+portugal" into google and you get 3 or 4 pages worth.


Happy diving.

Chris

[adrianlunn]

great thanks chris, will do next time I get on my cousins computer, he doesnt play well with others. Certainly will have a look at the info.

[Dimitriy_E]

Hello,

I've been diving in Cascais a year ago with Exclusive Divers. http://www.exclusive-divers.net/totalengl.html
The owner's name Fabian, he is German and speaks perfect English which is rare in Portugal. There is a wreck just off the bay of Cascais at about 28 meters. Visibility may vary from 10m to nearly zero, depends how lucky you are with weather.

Overall diving quality in Cascais is quite average. There is Berlenga marine reserve in the north of the country near Peniche. There sea life and visi is much better. I recommend to go there for a day if you have a chance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkJDzD3ALsQ

Cheers,
Dimitriy

[Chris Cherrington]

We dived there last year, from the Marina. Its not exactly brilliant but we had a couple of decent dives. The outfit we used were great and the rental kit OK too.

Try: http://www.extremedive.com.pt/

Chris

[adrianlunn]

Thanks guys for the info Portugal is looking better by the minute just got to sort out my eastern european side of the trip in Bulgaria and Romania.